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BRA | Sep 20, 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes NEW YORK (Reuters): U.S. President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, underscoring their shared commitment to shoring up democracy, launched an initiative on Wednesday to advance…
Reading Time: 2 minutes LONDON (Reuters): British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will give a speech this week in which he is expected to delay some of the government’s policies to reach net zero emissions…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The two-day Summit of the Group of 77 (G77) and China concluded on Saturday with a call for more participation and say of the Global South in the global governance…
Reading Time: 2 minutes UNITED NATIONS (Reuters): World leaders meeting at the United Nations on Monday warned of the peril the world faces unless it acts with urgency to rescue a set of 2030…
Reading Time: 2 minutes NEW YORK (Reuters): A detainee swap that secured the release of five Americans held in Iran on Monday does not change Washington’s adversarial relationship with Tehran, although the door remains…
Reading Time: 2 minutes GENEVA (Reuters): War crimes and crimes against humanity are still being committed in Ethiopia nearly a year after government and regional forces from Tigray agreed to end fighting, U.N. experts…
Reading Time: 2 minutes BRASILIA (Reuters): Brazil will end a tax exemption for importing electric vehicles, gradually raising the duty to 35 per cent over three years, Industry Ministry official Uallace Moreira told Reuters…
Reading Time: 3 minutes LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters): France agreed on Friday to work with Italy to get European Union support to stem a migrant crisis that has overwhelmed the Italian island of Lampedusa. The…
Reading Time: 2 minutes LONDON (Reuters) : Global investment of US$2.7 trillion a year is needed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and avoid temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius this century,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes LONDON (Reuters): Russia said on Thursday it was expelling two U.S. diplomats whom it accused of working with a Russian national charged with collaborating with a foreign state. The foreign…
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Reuters): There is a more than a 95 per cent chance that the El Niño weather pattern will continue through the Northern Hemisphere winter from January – March 2024, a…
Reading Time: 4 minutes DERNA, Libya (Reuters): Libyan authorities demanded an investigation on Thursday into whether human failings were to blame for thousands of deaths in the worst natural disaster in the country’s modern…