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South American bloc looks to Asia, Europe in face of Trump trade war
The Victoria Advocate - Texas
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South America's Mercosur bloc sought Thursday to expand its markets in the face of US President Donald Trump's global trade war, with Brazil calling for closer ties with dynamic Asian economies. "It's time for Mercosur to look toward Asia,"...
Costa Rican-Owned BCT Bank is in the Eye of the Storm in Panama
Newsroom Panama
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July 1, 2025
The Public Prosecutor’s Office is conducting an investigation into possible money laundering crimes against the economic order and has held talks with Costa Rican judicial authorities. On June 10, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, through the Second...
Panama approves 2-year extension on grey cement import tariffs
International Cement Review
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June 30, 2025
To protect Panama’s cement industry, the country’s government is extending the tariff of grey cement imports by two years. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Julio Moltó, explained that this decision seeks to preserve current jobs, ensure tax...
Mexico Is Showing the World How to Stand Up to Donald Trump
Jacobin
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On Sunday, March 9, over 350,000 people crammed into Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo, in repudiation of US president Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Just days before, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the reaching of an agreement...
After backing Israel, Iran’s self-styled crown prince loses support
Al Jazeera
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July 3, 2025
Hours before a ceasefire took effect between Israel and Iran on June 24, the son of Iran’s last shah, Reza Pahlavi, held a televised news conference in the French capital, Paris. Dressed in a grey suit and blue tie with his hair combed back, the...
6 Headline Artists Join Melbourne International Jazz Festival's 2025 Line-up
Scenestr
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Ahead of the full programme launch this August, Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF) have teased their 2025 season with six headline performers. The music line-up will feature the Australian live debut of five-time Grammy Award-winning...
Donald Trump: Warmonger or peacemaker?
Frontline - The Hindu
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July 3, 2025
Six months into his second presidency, Trump has shown a wide array of foreign policy possibilities—from wanting to take over Greenland and buy the Panama Canal, to looking at Gaza as real estate to develop, to announcing he would end the Ukraine...
Peter Rhodes on poles, politics and a million self-destructive Brits
Express & Star
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July 1, 2025
My holiday reading down in Devon was Alastair Cooke's America, a masterful study of the most powerful nation in history. Writing in 2002, Cooke contemplated a USA bitterly divided by issues such as race, wealth, language, gun ownership and the...
Roberto Duran Names The Only Fighter Who Was Tougher Than All Of The Four Kings
Seconds Out
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June 30, 2025
Roberto Duran is viewed as one of the greatest boxers of all time. The iconic Panamanian boxer competed an incredible 119 times from 1968 to 2001, becoming a world champion at lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight in the...
Panama Cybersecurity Center Becomes Reality
Newsroom Panama
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June 29, 2025
On June 11, 2025, Panama officially established the Panama cybersecurity center, also known as the Panama cyber defense hub, through Executive Decree No.?53 signed by President José Raúl Mulino. Moreover, the move marks a milestone in creating a...
Mercosur Summit: Milei pledges to go through together or solo
MercoPress
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Thursday, July 3rd 2025 - 17:44 UTC The gathering took place at the Palacio San Martín (Foreign Ministry) in Buenos Aires Argentine President Javier Milei urged the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) on Thursday to abandon its “destructive...
Hong Kong Business Tycoon Removed From City’s Top Advisory Role After Panama Port Sale Sparks Beijing’s Backlash
The Epoch Times
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June 30, 2025
Li Ka-shing (R), founder of CK Hutchison and Hong Kong's richest man, speaks to his son Victor during a press conference in Hong Kong on March 16, 2018. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images As President Donald Trump reorganizes U.S. trade...
America and China clash over the Panama Canal..!?
India Herald
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Many people know about the panama Canal, it is one of the busiest cargo shipping routes in the world. What is the reason for suddenly talking about the panama Canal..? The panama Canal is currently struggling amid the dominance of the world's...
U.S. Navy Sailors, Panamanians take part in beach clean up
DVIDS - Georgia
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June 30, 2025
U.S. Navy Sailors, assigned to Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), pick up litter on a local beach as part of Continuing Promise 2025 in Veracruz, Panama, June 28, 2025. CP25 is the 16th iteration of the U.S. 4th Fleet/U.S. Naval...
Noboa’s International Tour Brings Investment Opportunities and Strengthened Cooperation
The Cuenca Dispatch
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June 30, 2025
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PANAMA CANAL: TIME FOR TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S BIG STICK?
Alabama Gazette
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June 29, 2025
South Dakota’s Mt. Rushmore exhibits the faces of four presidents immortalized in stone: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt (TR). As the story goes, one morning in 1979 Washington noticed that Roosevelt...
Timor-Leste joins rapidly growing market of fake registries taking in sanctioned tonnage
Lloyd's List
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TIMOR-LESTE has become the target location of the latest fake flag operation registering sanctioned ships via an entirely fraudulent shipping registry. Lloyd’s List has tracked at least eight ships that have started using the fake Timor-Leste flag...
First Quantum provides update on Cobre Panamá
MiningMetalnews.com
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First Quantum Minerals announces that Minera Panamá S.A., a subsidiary of First Quantum, has received approval of the Preservation and Safe Management program for the Cobre Panamá mine from the Government of Panama. This will allow for the...
Trump’s Son Posts About Buying Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal on Amazon
The Political Insider
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June 30, 2025
This article was originally published by The Epoch Times: Trump’s Son Posts About Buying Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal on Amazon Eric Trump, son of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump, is following his father’s taunts of Canada, this time...
Pregnant scalloped hammerhead shark tagged in first for science
Oceanographic Magazine
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July 3, 2025
This all took place on February 11th, 2023 at Darwin Island. The shark lingered within the vicinity of Darwin for more than two months before – in early May – travelling 1,300km to the Gulf of Chiriqui on the Pacific coast of Panama – a known...