SAO PAULO (AP) – Brazil said Tuesday that the European Union has moved to block its animal product exports from September, just days after a mega deal between the South American trade bloc Mercosur and the EU on a trans-Atlantic market estimated at $22 trillion went into effect, at least provisionally.
NEW YORK (AP) - A reound for technology stocks led Wall Street to records, even though the majority of U.S. stocks fell following another discouraging update on inflation. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Wednesday and topped its prior all-time high set early this week. The Dow Jones dipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq climbed 1.2% to its own record.
CARACAS (AP) – Venezuela ‘s acting President Delcy Rodríguez arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday where she will defend her country’s claim to a mineral- and oil-rich region in western Guyana before the United Nations highest court in a dispute that has spanned decades.
BEIJING (AP) – U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for his hotly anticipated talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the Iran war, trade and U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. The meat of the summit doesn’t start until Thursday, when the leaders hold bilateral talks.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America will send a letter Monday to the United Nations warning that organized crime – including illegal mining, drug trafficking and logging – is driving violence and accelerating environmental destruction in rainforest communities. However, they urged governments to avoid heavily militarized responses in Indigenous territories.
LONDON (AP) – The irony wasn’t lost on anyone. On a day when the British government’s legislative plans were presented by no less than King Charles III himself, Prime Minister Keir Starmer was fighting to remain in power following rising discontent within his Labour Party.
CARACAS (AP) – Venezuela says an oil spill that originated in Trinidad and Tobago, two islands just off its coast, had caused serious environmental damage along the coastlines of at least two of its states and in a gulf area near the Caribbean nation.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – Officials in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego province are challenging the idea that the ongoing deadly hantavirus outbreak may have emerged there, pushing instead for investigations into the other Argentine provinces that passengers visited before boarding the ill-fated Atlantic cruise ship.
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