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Vladimir Putin considering YouTube outages in Russia, Kremlin says

Vladimir Putin considering YouTube outages in Russia, Kremlin says

President Vladimir Putin is studying YouTube’s slowness and outages in Russia after the country’s top film official raised the issue with him, the Kremlin reported on Friday. Critics believe authorities are deliberately disrupting YouTube to prevent Russians from viewing a large amount of content critical of Putin and his government. Russia denies this, claiming that ...

The president of Italy tells Elon Musk to stop meddling in local politics

The president of Italy tells Elon Musk to stop meddling in local politics

Italian President Sergio Mattarella told Elon Musk on Wednesday not to interfere in internal affairsafter the American billionaire claimed that judges in Rome blocking a government initiative against immigration should be expelled. The unusual statement by the Italian head of state came against a backdrop of growing tension between the ruling coalition and the judiciary ...

Blinken pledges to bolster support for Ukraine ahead of Trump transition

Blinken pledges to bolster support for Ukraine ahead of Trump transition

The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, assured NATO on Wednesday that Joe Biden’s Government will reinforce its support for Ukraine in the few months until Donald Trump’s return to the presidency and will try to strengthen the alliance during that time. In a meeting in Brussels with NATO Secretary General Mark ...

Minister Luis Caputo affirms that Argentina will register a financial surplus for October

Minister Luis Caputo affirms that Argentina will register a financial surplus for October

Argentina will register an “important” financial surplus in October, in line with the economic program it is carrying out the country to leave behind years of deficits in its public accounts, Economy Minister Luis Caputo said on Tuesday. In a presentation at the Annual Conference of the Latin American Economic Research Foundation, Fiel,Caputo maintained that ...

'Perfect storm' hits Argentina's heart health amid Milei adjustment

‘Perfect storm’ hits Argentina’s heart health amid Milei adjustment

Ada, an 83-year-old Argentine woman, had to wait six months to get an appointment to undergo surgery for a worsened heart obstruction. due to severe anemia due to lack of supplies and endless procedures that could have cost him his life. Cases like Ada’s are repeated in the midst of the profound spending adjustment promoted ...

Italy about to ease proposed 42% tax on crypto trading

Italy about to ease proposed 42% tax on crypto trading

The government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is likely to approve coalition partner’s proposal to soften a mooted tax hike on cryptocurrency tradingaccording to people with knowledge of the matter. La Liga, a junior partner in Meloni’s coalition, has tabled an amendment to limit the increase to 28%, compared to 42% originally proposed in ...

Chilean environmental regulator will sanction Codelco for emissions violations

Chilean environmental regulator will sanction Codelco for emissions violations

Chile’s environmental regulator said Monday it had filed a serious charge and initiated a sanctioning process against the state copper giant Codelco for the violation of the emissions monitoring system at its Potrerillos smelter. The Superintendency of the Environment (SMA) explained that the data that obtained from continuous emissions monitoring must be in line with ...

Government of Mexico will sign agreement with companies to preserve the basic basket

Government of Mexico will sign agreement with companies to preserve the basic basket

The government of Mexico will sign an agreement this week with producers and marketers of food and personal hygiene products pto preserve the prices of the basic basket, President Claudia Sheinbaum reported this Monday. The agreement continues the so-called Pacic (Package Against Inflation and Famine) that the now former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador launched ...

Vice President of Ecuador is suspended from office in the run-up to the 2025 elections

Vice President of Ecuador is suspended from office in the run-up to the 2025 elections

The Ministry of Labor of Ecuador temporarily suspended Vice President Verónica Abad from officejust three months before the February elections of next year in which President Daniel Noboa will seek re-election. According to the resolution – dated Friday, but released on Saturday – the official, who is also the South American country’s ambassador to Israel, ...

Biden and Trump to meet Wednesday to discuss presidential transition

Biden and Trump to meet Wednesday to discuss presidential transition

President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday for their first post-election meeting, launching the transition of power in the United States that will be completed in January. They will meet in the Oval Office at 11 a.m. at Biden’s invitationWhite House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a ...