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Scientists Unite: Asunción To Host Ibero-American Researchers’ Night 2025
The Asunción Times
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July 8, 2025
Paraguay is set to become the focal point for the sixth “Ibero-American Researchers’ Night 2025”, an event for scientific collaboration. The event will be held on September 26 and 27 2025 in Asunción, and will represent the most ambitious...
Into The Green Heart: Discovering Paraguay’s Wild Side
The Asunción Times
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July 8, 2025
Paraguay, a country often overshadowed in traditional tourist circuits, carefully guards a treasure trove for true lovers of nature, photography, and adventure. From the vast expanse of the Gran Chaco, to the wetlands that nourish the Paraguayan...
Dependence On China's Minerals Blocks Indian 'Strategic Autonomy'
MENAFN
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July 8, 2025
Latest stories Russia's formal recognition a shot in the arm for the Taliban China's sea-skimming 'monster' surfaces with stealth – and doubts As US equivocates on Ukraine, Europe heads in the right direction For India, this means that its grand...
Lavrov slams IMF and World Bank for favoring Ukraine over Africa
Birmingham Star - Alabama
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Russias foreign minister has called for the reform of global financial institutions and the more equitable distribution of aid Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has criticized the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank for what...
SA team selected for 2025 International Olympiad in Informatics
ITWeb
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July 8, 2025
IITPSA Olympiad. The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) has named the team that will represent South Africa at this year’s International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). The IOI is described as the world’s most...
Dependence on China’s minerals blocks Indian ‘strategic autonomy’
Asia Times
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July 8, 2025
The US and China signed the London Agreement to end their tense trade standoff some days back. US President Donald Trump’s strategy of escalating tariffs to pressure China was counterbalanced by Beijing’s retaliatory measures, a mixed bag of...
‘On The Mountain’ Is A Short Film With A Big Message
Forbes
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A still from the film, On The Mountain. Fernando Rocha Released last year, On The Mountain is a touching production set against the backdrop of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. Inspired by real events, the film follows the journey of...
BRICS strengthens role of African countries in tackling global issues — Russian senator
TASS
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July 8, 2025
MOSCOW, July 8. /TASS/. The BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro underscored the significance of the organization and showed that African countries are fully engaged in the process of solving international problems, Ivan Novikov, the member of the...
Press review: BRICS tackles integration challenges as Russia counters NATO expansion
TASS
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July 8, 2025
MOSCOW, July 8. /TASS/. BRICS faces the need to effectively integrate new members; Russia is set to respond to NATO’s military build-up in Northern Europe; and the US may postpone the resumption of a global trade war. These stories have topped...
Tiwanaku: Pre-Incan Civilization in the Andes
Yahoo News
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The ruins of the pre-Incan civilization at Tiwanaku near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. | Credit: diegograndi/Getty ImagesLocated near Lake Titicaca...
South Africa Is No Longer Alone on the International Stage
IOL
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Vashna Jagannath|Published 31 minutes ago 5min South Africa’s position on the human catastrophe in Gaza has been consistent, lawful and morally serious. It has insisted that international law must be applied equally to all countries, regardless of...
A los 90 años, el dalái lama se prepara para el enfrentamiento final con Beijing: su reencarnación
KESQ-TV - California
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July 4, 2025
Por Simone McCarthy y el personal de CNN Durante gran parte del siglo pasado, el dalái lama ha sido la encarnación viviente de la lucha del Tíbet por mayores libertades bajo el Gobierno del Partido Comunista Chino, sosteniendo la causa desde el...
Legendary ice cream parlour in Malaga is up for sale for a cool one million euros
SUR in English
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July 4, 2025
The legendary ice cream parlour Lauri - one of the icons of the Pedregalejo neighbourhood in Malaga city - is looking for a new owner. The premises located on Calle Bolivia are up for sale for 950,000 euros. Although the family owning the business...
Nigeria to face new 10% US tariffs from Trump over BRICS partnership
Business Day
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July 8, 2025
President Donald Trump has announced that Nigeria will face an extra 10% tariff for joining BRICS, a group of emerging economies that he claims follow “anti-American policies.” The US president made this announcement on Sunday through his Truth...
BRICS tariff to be applied only if they adopt policies deemed 'anti-American': source
The Business Standard
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July 8, 2025
Highlights: Tariff to be charged if 'policy decisions' made, source says Trump announce new 10% tariff on Sunday evening BRICS countries deny anti-American orientation The Trump administration will not immediately impose a new 10% tariff against...
Top Turkish diplomat, UN chief discuss Ukraine, Gaza, Middle East security — sources
TASS
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July 7, 2025
ISTANBUL, July 7. /TASS/. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Brazil to discuss the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, and the situation in the Gaza Strip...
Nigeria at risk as U.S. threatens extra 10% tariff on BRICS nations, slams 25% on Japan, S’Korea
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 8, 2025
• China says BRICS not seeking ‘confrontation’ after Trump’s threat • AU counters Trump with AfCFTA trade proposal United States President, Donald Trump, has warned that countries supporting BRICS policies that clash with U.S. interests will face...
Mercosur and EFTA finalize free trade agreement
Fresh Plaza
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July 4, 2025
Mercosur, South America's leading trade bloc, and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) have finalized a trade agreement. EFTA includes Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland, while Mercosur consists of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay,...
Alianza Paraguay: Why Forbidden Stories launched a global investigation into organized crime
Forbidden Stories
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July 8, 2025
Humberto was the youngest of nine siblings from a large, close-knit family who lived along Paraguay’s border with Brazil in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero–or Pedro Juan, as it’s known locally. Gloria, the eldest, felt like a second mother to...
Greece arrests gang smuggling cocaine-infused leather from Latin America
Yahoo News
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek police have dismantled a gang that had been hiding cocaine in sheets of leather that were smuggled from Bolivia to Greece on container ships, police officials said on Friday. They said the method used by the gang signalled...