The global map of spending on research and development (R&D) within the OECD confirms a persistent gap: while Israel and South Korea sustain record levels of investment relative to the size of their economies, several Latin American economies in the bloc remain among the least intense. In 2022, the R&D intensity of the OECD area ...
BHP Group chairman Ross McEwan confirmed the mining giant was in commercial negotiations with China’s state-owned iron ore buyer, during its annual meeting in Melbourne on Thursday. “We have decades of relationships in China and we have a very good working relationship,” McEwan said in response to a shareholder question at the meeting. “But this ...
President José Jerí confirmed in a message to the Nation, the declaration of the state of emergency in Lima and Callao as part of the Government’s actions to confront crime. “Crime has grown disproportionately in recent years, causing enormous pain to thousands of families and also harming the progress of the country, but this is ...
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it was unclear when the summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin would take place.to seek the end of the war in Ukraine, and that no one had mentioned dates. Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the war in Ukraine, the deadliest in ...
President Daniel Noboa will face the campaign for the next referendum and popular consultation in Ecuador with a significant advantage: there is no solid partisan opposition to confront him. His movement, National Democratic Action, ADN, benefits from the weakness of traditional political organizations, which are going through a moment of fragmentation, loss of influence and ...
US Senator Lindsey Graham said he had “a very good conversation” with President Donald Trump, who said he plans to impose tariffs on Colombia in retaliation for its alleged support for drug trafficking. Graham stated that Trump “is going to attack Colombia where it hurts most: the pocket” and that the official announcement would be ...
The Observer – Montevideo Last week the 77th Congress of the International Fiscal Association, IFA, was held in Lisbon, Portugal. The greatest exponents of international taxation in the world met there with more than 2,000 attendees. In that instance it did not go unnoticed the decision of the Portuguese government that excluded Uruguay from the ...
Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House on Friday to ask Donald Trump for Tomahawk missiles, but the US president’s focus on his next meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Budapest, raised the possibility that he is more determined to negotiate peace than to improve kyiv’s arsenal. Although Trump did not rule out the ...
The first of what could be up to 2,600 “No Kings” protest eventsa massive mobilization against President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, education and security in the United States and other countries, began on Saturday. The protests – large and small, in cities, suburbs and small towns across the United States – follow the massive ...
The president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, denounced that an official from the United States embassy has been threatening to withdraw the visas of members of his government amid pressure from Washington for the country to reduce its relations with China.. During his weekly conference, the president described this practice as incompatible with the relationship ...
