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Transition Industries signs HoA for Pacifico Mexinol Project in Mexico
World Construction Network
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August 18, 2025
Transition Industries has signed a heads of agreement (HoA) with Bonatti for the Pacifico Mexinol project in Sinaloa, Mexico. This collaboration focuses on critical infrastructure, aiming to establish the world’s largest standalone ultra-low...
US appeals court grants Argentina’s request to delay YPF stake turnover
Offshore Technology
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August 18, 2025
A US appeals court has granted Argentina a temporary reprieve by putting on hold a judge’s order to turn over its 51% stake in oil and gas company YPF. This decision temporarily relieves Argentina from partially satisfying a $16.1bn judgment won...
8 Memphis Specialty Markets You Need to Know About
AOL
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There’s just something about a specialty market that makes grocery shopping feel like a treat instead of a chore. Whether you’re looking for imported spices, artisan pasta, or locally made goodies, Memphis is home to a vibrant mix of options that...
The cost of food in Argentina continues to rise
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 18, 2025
The cost of food skyrocketed in July, and higher increases are expected in August, representing more than half of the total Basic Basket accepted by the government, an indicator that marks the poverty line, according to an analysis released today...
Could community policing in the Caribbean build trust to prevent violence?
Global Voices
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August 18, 2025
Riot police outside the St. James amphitheatre during the 2009 Drummit2Summit event in Trinidad and Tobago. Photo by Georgia Popplewell on Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Imagine a police officer in Trinidad and Tobago who walks the bustling community...
“Fewer Promises And More Action”: Brazil's Commitment As Host Of The COP 30 Climate Summit
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- Costa Rica News) Ahead of the first UN climat summit in the Amazon, its president defended the choice of Belém as the venue, although the shortage of affordable accommodatio could exclude those Brazil says it wants to put at the center...
Bahamian businesses look to explore opportunities in Chinese market
The Tribune (Bahamas)
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August 18, 2025
Chinese Ambassador Yian Jiarong (second from left) meets with delegation of business owners, led by Bahamas China Friendship Association head Donovan Moxey. By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net A GROUP of Bahamian...
Are farmers markets the OG business incubators?
Utah Business
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August 18, 2025
This story appears in the August 2025 issue of Utah Business. Subscribe. As the distance between consumers and the source of our food grows ever larger, farmers markets are often romanticized as rustic holdouts pushing back against that trend. But...
Supreme Court Justice Rules Foreign Orders Must Be Ratified in Brazil
Folha de Sao Paulo
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August 18, 2025
Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Flávio Dino, of Brazil’s highest court, ruled on Monday (18) that judicial and executive orders from foreign governments must be ratified in the country to be enforceable. The decision was issued in the case...
SHE Leads in Business 2025: A Conference for Female Professionals in the Caribbean
EA News
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August 18, 2025
On August 25, 2025, in Bonaire SHE Leads in Business is coming to Bonaire on August 25, 2025, following four highly successful editions of the SHE Leads Conference in Curaçao. Silvetty de la Paz and her team are organizing the first-ever edition...
U.S. Warns Travelers of High Risks in Mexico: Cartel Wars, Crime, and Violence
The Rio Times
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August 18, 2025
The United States warned its citizens in August 2025 that traveling through much of Mexico has become dangerous. The updated advisory uses a new word—“terrorism”—to describe cartel violence, making millions question their plans to visit, live, or...
A Newly Created Brazilian Company Led a Critical Minerals Auction and Secured more than 6,000 km² in The Country
Folha de Sao Paulo
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August 18, 2025
3D Minerals, headquartered in a small office in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, and founded just 46 days before the annual auction of the National Mining Agency (ANM), single-handedly secured 116 critical...
A Colombian farmer finds $600 million buried on his farm that may belong to Pablo Escobar
MARCA
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August 18, 2025
A farmer from the department of Antioquia, in Colombia, has made a discovery that seems straight out of a movie: while carrying out agricultural work on his farm, he discovered 600 million dollars in cash buried, allegedly linked to the late Pablo...
Colombia's 'rebel nun' has led decades of spiritual resistance against state violence
Global Sisters Report
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In a homey third-story apartment in Soacha, Colombia, on the outskirts of Bogotá, Sr. Maritze Trigos Torres pulls a plastic bag from a cabinet. Inside are photographs no one should have to see: the decomposing body of Fr. Tiberio Fernández Mafla,...
Cop30: the accommodation crisis plaguing Brazil’s upcoming UN climate summit
The Conversation
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August 18, 2025
Cop30, the UN climate summit scheduled to take place this November in the Brazilian city of Belém, is embroiled in a controversy that has nothing to do with solving the planet’s environmental problems. Currently occupying debate about the...
Opinion: Caribbean Constitutional Omissions – Return To Sender
I News Cayman
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August 18, 2025
By Peter Polack A significant part of the Caribbean community are the anachronistic relics of yesterday, the U.K. Colonies such as the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands and Monserrat. The gleaming jewel in the...
The Real Path to Industrial Renewal
City Journal
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August 17, 2025
For decades, Washington has tried to cushion the blow of globalization with job training and relocation subsidies. It hasn’t worked. In 1978, a reporter found John Koruschak, a laid-off steelworker from Campbell, Ohio, returning home from...
Edible oil imports may decline by 5% in 2024-25: Industry
Financial Express
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India’s import of edible oils – palm, soybean and sunflower — during 2024-25 oil year (November-October) is likely to decline by around 5% to below 15.5 million tonne (MT) from 16 MT in the previous year, a senior industry official said. The...
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Typhoon Erin grows and more powerful, showers the Caribbean and threatens United States east coast
Web NewsWire
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August 18, 2025
A more powerful and bigger Hurricane Erin damaged areas of the Caribbean and was anticipated to trigger extreme browse and rip currents along the United States East Coast today. According to the United States National Hurricane Center in Miami, it...
¿Qué pasaría si EE.UU. falsificara sus datos económicos? Esto es lo que ocurrió cuando Argentina y otros países lo hicieron
KVIA - Texas
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August 18, 2025
Por Luciana Lopez Mentir a los prestamistas ya es bastante mala idea a nivel individual. Es aún peor a nivel nacional. Ese es el espectro que han planteado los críticos del presidente Donald Trump tras el despido del director de la Oficina de...