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Matildas stunned by Panama in women’s football friendly – live reaction
The Guardian
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July 5, 2025
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature Joe Montemurro finishes by saying that Teagan Micah copped a heavy challenge late in the game but they hope she hasn’t sustained a concussion. The Matildas could do with...
Mercosur-EFTA deal: South America, Europe forge new economic corridor with free trade pact
Firstpost
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July 3, 2025
South America’s largest trading bloc, Mercosur has signed a trade deal with the four-nation European Free Trade Association (EFTA) after 10 years of negotiation amid global economic uncertainties read more South America’s largest trading bloc,...
Why is Journalist's Day celebrated across Latin America?
LatAm Journalism Review
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July 3, 2025
They go by names such as National Journalist Day, Press Day, or Journalist and Media Worker Day. And they’re observed on the date the first national newspaper was printed, the date journalists were killed for criticizing dictatorships, or the date...
Argentina and Paraguay Plan Direct Gas Pipeline to Brazil, Bypassing Bolivia
The Rio Times
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July 4, 2025
Argentina and Paraguay are working together on a plan to build a new gas pipeline that would send natural gas from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale fields directly to Brazil, passing through Paraguay. This project, announced at the Mercosur summit in...
world 'It's a joke': Peruvians outraged after president doubles her salary
Asiaone
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July 4, 2025
LIMA — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte will double her salary to the equivalent of some US$10,000 (S$12,746) per month, angering many Peruvians who said the money would be better spent on alleviating poverty. The economy minister announced late...
U.S. Military Airlifts Relief Supplies to Flood Victims in Bolivia
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 4, 2025
MIAMI, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES 03.04.2007 Courtesy Story U.S. Southern Command here has partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Navy’s Project Handclasp to airlift more than $30,000 of emergency relief supplies 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...
South Carolina helped fuel an American revolution. Is that spirit alive today? We asked.
The Post & Courier - South Carolina
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"Coming from a country like Bolivia, I've heard my parents talk about what it was like when the press was oppressed, when people were taken off the street and silenced," she said. But she acknowledges the fear that has taken hold among immigrants...
Latin America's Dictators, Threatened by Spirit of Freedom, Strive to Suppress Their Own Countries' Independence Day
Breitbart
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July 4, 2025
The authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have spent extensive efforts to diminish or outright erase the significance of their countries’ national independence days, crafting unpopular communist replacements for the...
Lula Urges MERCOSUR to Adopt Local Currencies for International Trade Payments
teleSUR
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Brazilian President Lula da Silva (L) and Argentine President Javier Milei (R), July 3, 2025. X/ @atanimaciones July 3, 2025 Hour: 11:18 am On Thursday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva called on member countries of the Southern Common Market...
Lula visits former Argentinian president under house arrest in snub to Milei
The Guardian
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July 3, 2025
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has eschewed a one-on-one meeting with the Argentinian president, Javier Milei, during a trip to Buenos Aires, instead opting to visit Milei’s political rival, former president Cristina Fernández de...
Gang caught smuggling cocaine-infused leather from Latin America to Europe
The Independent
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July 4, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Latin America and the return of magical realism
Latinoamerica21
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July 3, 2025
In late June 1965, the Mexican newspaper El Día published an article by sociologist and anthropologist Rodolfo Stavenhagen that would go down in history. Titled Seven Erroneous Theses about Latin America, the piece not only clarified the concept...
Bolivia Declares National Health Emergency to Combat Measles Spread
MENAFN
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June 25, 2025
(MENAFN) Bolivia has officially declared a National Health Emergency amid a measles outbreak that has confirmed 60 cases across the country. This urgent action aims to halt the virus's rapid spread in multiple regions of the South American nation....
Bolivia’s Ventanani Glacier Trek Dazzles Hikers as Climate Clock Ticks
LatinAmerican Post
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June 25, 2025
Every winter, thousands of travelers lace up their boots in La Paz and head for Ventanani, a turquoise lagoon frozen nearly 17,000 feet up in Bolivia’s Cordillera Real. The view is breathtaking, but scientists say the glacier feeding it may vanish...
'It's a joke': Peruvians outraged after president doubles her salary
WTVB - Michigan
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By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian President Dina Boluarte will double her salary to the equivalent of some $10,000 per month, angering many Peruvians who said the money would be better spent on alleviating poverty. The economy minister...
S&P doowngrades Bolivia's ratings
MercoPress
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Thursday, July 3rd 2025 - 10:19 UTC S&P did not rule out further downgradings in the coming months Standard & Poor's (S&P) downgraded Bolivia's long-term credit rating from 'CCC+' to 'CCC-' with a negative outlook. This decision was driven by...
Bolivia: Measles outbreak leads to schooling reschedules
MercoPress
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June 25, 2025
Wednesday, June 25th 2025 - 10:26 UTC A health emergency is declared nationwide for measles at the request of the National Strategic Council for Health Emergencies, Castro announced Bolivian education authorities in Santa Cruz have moved forward...
Vietnamese PM to attend expanded BRICS summit in Brazil
Vietnam News Agency
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HÀ NỘI — Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính and his spouse will lead a high-ranking delegation of Việt Nam to attend the expanded BRICS summit and engage in bilateral activities in Brazil from July 4–8. The trip will be made at the invitation of...
Measles cases rise in the Americas in 2025
Pan American Health Organization
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July 3, 2025
Washington, D.C., 3 July 2025 (PAHO) – A total of 7,132 confirmed cases of measles and 13 deaths have been reported in the Region of the Americas as of mid-June 2025, according to the latest epidemiological update from the Pan American Health...