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Vai alla Scheda Paese »There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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New York museums to disclose artwork looted by Nazis
Museums in New York that exhibit artworks looted by Nazis during the Holocaust are now required by law to let the public know about those dark chapters in their provenance through placards displayed with the stolen objects.
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Tentative deal averts threat of US rail strike
Rail companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement on Sept. 15 to avert a nationwide strike that could have shut down the nation’s freight trains and devastated the economy less than two months before the midterm elections.
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SET volatile ahead of key Fed meeting
Trade on the Stock Exchange of Thailand was quite volatile in the past week. The SET Index climbed towards 1,670 points early in the week before surprisingly high US inflation dragged down global risk assets and Thai shares on Wednesday morning.
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Border reopening unleashes battle between Colombian peso and Venezuelan dollarization
Even though Venezuela is undergoing a de facto dollarization process in several sectors of its economy, in the border zone with Colombia, the situation presents several nuances given the important participation of the Colombian peso (COP), which is the second-most traded foreign currency in daily operations in that country after ...
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Latin America’s most stable currencies in the last two decades
Although the United States is suffering from inflation and its currency is also depreciating, the dollar has not lost its strength as a world reference. In Guatemala, for example, buying a dollar bill costs practically the same as it did at the end of 2000 (7.68 quetzales before and 7.8 ...
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Appeals Court Upholds Texas Social Media Law on Censorship
The law, which had been blocked by a lower court, makes it possible to sue large social media platforms for taking down political viewpoints.
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Türkiye-US hold Strategic Mechanism Dialogue meeting
Türkiye and the United States held a third meeting of the Türkiye-U.S. Strategic Mechanism Dialogue on Sept. 15 in Washington chaired by Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Önal and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, while U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland also participated in ...
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Paraguay and Argentina link their rail networks
Paraguay and Argentina are reconnecting their rail networks for freight traffic on a 1,200-kilometer line that runs into Uruguay and borders Brazil. The Urquiza and Mesopotámica networks in Argentina, with a gauge of 1435 mm, are a rare example in North and South America where the same gauge connects four ...
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Toyota loses $315m tax case
Toyota Motor Thailand (TMT) Co has lost a 2015 import tariff dispute in which the car maker was ordered to pay 11.63 billion baht (US$315.5 million) in missing taxes in connection with its move to import parts to assemble Toyota Prius cars in Thailand.
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Brazil’s agro exports up 36.4% in August to US$14.8 billion; corn at historic record high
Amid rising prices and volumes, foreign agribusiness sales registered a record US$14.81 billion in August, up 36.4% from the same month in 2021. Foreign sales of agribusiness accounted for 48.1% of Brazil's total exports. Imports of agricultural products registered US$1.68 billion, the highest value in the historical series that began ...
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Brazil’s President Bolsonaro to meet Polish president at the United Nations
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will meet with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, and three other leaders during his visit to the United States to participate in the United Nations Assembly next week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed today. Bolsonaro will be in New York next Tuesday, September 20, where ...
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Ecuador: 74.1% of investments come from national capital
The company Vaschlabs signed an investment contract for US$1.2 million with the Ministry of Production. The objective of the Ecuadorian firm is to install new production lines in the province of Imbabura. In the first quarter of 2022, Ecuador approved 27 investment contracts. The 74.1% corresponds to the national capital ...
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Top court rules Toyota unit must pay B10bn in import duties
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that the local unit of Toyota Motor Corp owed the government 10 billion baht (US$272.11 million) in extra taxes for importing components not subject to a reduced tariff.
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Brazil government revises GDP growth forecast for 2022 from 2.0% to 2.7
The Ministry of Economy has raised the country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2022 from 2.0% to 2.7%. GDP is the sum of all goods produced by a country in a given period. If the forecast is confirmed, the economy will have turned over R$9.7 (US$1.9) trillion by the ...
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Ministry to step up export promotion to meet target
The Commerce Ministry has vowed to continue ramping up export promotion activities in the remaining months of 2022, with the aim of raising export revenue to US$285 billion by year-end, hitting the ministry's target and an uptick from $271 billion in 2021.
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Chile and Colombia lead the race for green hydrogen in Latin America
Although its role as the future fuel is not 100% defined, the race for countries to be among the producers is in full swing. Globally, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, China, Saudi Arabia, and Chile are leading through various projects. Green hydrogen is obtained mainly by subjecting seawater to an electrolysis ...
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Paraguay: Exports reach US$9.4 billion in August 2022
The Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) reported that, as of August 2022, total exports reached a value of US$9.4 billion, being 1.6% lower than the US$9.5 billion achieved in the same month of 2021. The BCP's Foreign Trade report detailed that, as of the eighth month of the year, registered ...
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Africa: Google U.S.$3.9 Million Fund for Tech Startups to Export Technologies
[The Exchange] A US$3.980 million (Sh479.2 million) fund will help 60 black-founded African firms so they may export their technologies outside their nations, including 12 in Kenya.
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Ostracized by the West, Russia Finds a Partner in Saudi Arabia
The two oil-producing countries have extended their partnership even as the United States and Europe have sought to punish and isolate Russia for invading Ukraine.
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Ucraina, ultime notizie. Intelligence Usa: dalla Russia 300 mln ai partiti europei. L’Ue taglia i consumi elettrici nelle ore di picco
Il Cremlino lancia un avvertimento ai critici dell’operazione militare in Ucraina. «Fintanto che i punti di vista critici rimangono nell’ambito della legge sono pluralismo, ma il confine è molto labile e qui bisogna essere molto attenti», ha detto il portavoce Dmitry Peskov. In un rapporto, la Direzione dell’intelligence del Ministero ...
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Pressure mounts on US railroads and unions to reach a deal
Freight railroads and their unions are facing increasing pressure from business groups and the White House to settle their contract dispute before Sept. 16’s looming strike deadline.