Bybit and Tether Partner to Boost Brazil’s Crypto Adoption via Institutional, Event, and Educational Initiatives

Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has partnered with Tether, the issuer of the widely used stablecoin USD₮, to advance cryptocurrency adoption in Brazil. The collaboration, announced in July... Read more »

Volkswagen profits tumble as tariffs weigh on auto industry | Automotive Industry News

The carmaker joins Stellantis and GM in reporting hits to their profits as tariffs drive up costs for the industry. Volkswagen has reported $1.5bn in losses in the first half of the... Read more »

Stories that caught our eye: June 27 to July 4

  YPF BOMBSHELL Last Monday Manhattan judge Loretta Preska ordered Argentina to hand over 51 percent of YPF shares within the next fortnight to the hedge funds Eton Park and Burford, plaintiffs... Read more »

Trump-Brazil Feud Could Speed Up De-Dollarization

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Brazil reflect a larger conflict over the U.S. dollar, Mexico City officials respond to... Read more »

A cacti-smuggling case with a prickly end: the novel way courts are making poachers pay | Conservation

Chile’s Atacama desert is one of the driest places on Earth, a surprisingly cool environment, sucked clean of moisture by the cold ocean to the west. This arid, golden landscape is home... Read more »

Yesterday’s Petrol Fiasco | Buenos Aires Times

Manhattan judge Loretta Preska’s controversial ruling setting a fuse of a fortnight on the US$16-billion time-bomb compensating speculative interests for the nationalisation of YPF oil company with its shares needs to be... Read more »

In a city ruled by gangs, young rape survivor raises baby she was told to abort

Nawal Al-Maghafi and Jasmin Dyer BBC World Service, reporting from Port-au-Prince BBC/ Phil Pendlebury Helene says the gang told her to have an abortion but she wanted to keep her baby and... Read more »

From the archives: “Death of a steelworker” (February 19, 1973)

The World Socialist Web Site is reprinting below an article from February 19, 1973 on the death of Rick Hertzig, a steelworker who was horrifically killed on the job at a US... Read more »

Luxury boom masks despair among the masses

The housing market is thriving in Javier Milei’s Argentina. Cars are flying off the lots, and major airlines are adding Buenos Aires flights to meet surging travel demand. Yet restaurants are evermore... Read more »

US doctors, veterans urge Trump to end Israel support as hunger grips Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Washington, DC – Josephine Guilbeau’s voice remained steady as it rose with anger and frustration outside the United States Capitol while she described the Israeli-imposed hunger crisis in Gaza. “The level of... Read more »