Inmates at the Barinas prison in western Venezuela staged a protest on Sunday on the roof of the penitentiary, piling up burning mattresses and demanding the dismissal of the prison director, whom they accused of supervising guards while they shot against unarmed inmates. “At this moment we feel attacked by all the public officials of ...
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvaleads the opposition senator Flavio Bolsonaro in this year’s presidential race, after gaining ground following reports linking the right-wing candidate to a disgraced banker, according to a Datafolha poll published Friday. The leftist Lula would win a possible second round against Bolsonaro by 47% to 43%, according to ...
Soccer, beyond being the most practiced and consumed sport in the world, is an industry that moves billions of dollars each year. Although income comes from the sale of tickets, t-shirts and other items, the buying and selling of footballers is one of the central axes of the business. “Like any business model, the sustainability ...
The US military boarded and subsequently freed an Iranian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, thus keeping pressure on Tehran’s economy as President Donald Trump pushes for a deal to end the conflict. The ship, the M/T Celestial Sea, was “suspected of attempting to violate the US blockade by heading towards an Iranian port,” ...
The president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, signed Decree No. 6034, that stipulates the regulation of the generation of electrical energy. Through non-conventional non-hydraulic renewable sources. This regulation stipulates the technical and regulatory limits for the generation and distribution of energy, so that citizens, businesses and industries can produce their own energy and include the surpluses ...
Grain and soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade (Cbot) rose on Monday after the White House announced that China pledged to buy at least $17 billion in American agricultural products over the next three years. The most traded soybean contract on the CBOT Sv1 rose US$0.41 to US$12.18 a bushel at 16:27 GMT. ...
Elon Musk has spent much of the last two decades turning science fiction ideas into real businesses. In the process, he enriched those who bet on him and earned the trust of much of Wall Street. Now, beyond rocket ships and electric cars, their companies are also changing the way analysts value companies, pushing the ...
China and the United States agreed to reducer tariffs on some products to promote bilateral trade, according to a statement from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. The ministry issued the statement on Saturday following a two-day summit in Beijing between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. China affirmed that Beijing and Washington ...
Oil prices rose about 2% on Friday after the US president’s remarksDonald Trump, and Iran’s foreign minister further dampened hopes of reaching an agreement to end the attacks and ship seizures in the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude futures rose US$2.50, or 2.4%, to US$108.22 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures, WIT, gained $2.86, ...
As announced by the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, andThis Friday the Government published in the Official Gazette the opening of the tender to sell 90% of the state company Aguas y Saneamiento Argentino, Aysa to private parties. The state company in charge of providing drinking water to some 11 million users in the Buenos ...
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