Today’s brief highlights key developments across Africa: In North Africa, Egypt introduces new investment incentives to boost FDI, Morocco expands defense cooperation with European allies, and Libya finalizes oil revenue transparency measures.... Read more »
The General Security and Order Act (ASOG) “reform” by the Berlin state government, a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD), is part of a frontal assault... Read more »
The United States made a profit on buying Argentine pesos. Wall Street banks, which spent a chunk of October in talks with the US Treasury over a plan to line up billions... Read more »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two prominent Republicans on Capitol Hill want the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit to proceed against tech giant Cisco over allegations that the company’s technology was used to... Read more »
New York declares a ‘state of emergency’ as state and local officials scramble to assist residents set to lose benefits. Millions of people in the United States who rely on nutrition assistance... Read more »
Residents of a Rio de Janeiro community lined up their dead in harrowing scenes midweek after Brazil’s bloodiest police raid killed at least 119 people, spotlighting the city’s controversial war against drug... Read more »
Living through the phase with the most injuries in his entire career, unable to string together a sequence at the most decisive moment of São Paulo’s season and questioned by the fans,... Read more »
Electric Hummers on the assembly line at GM’s Factory Zero [Photo by Jeffrey Sauger/GM] General Motors on Wednesday announced a new wave of job cuts at its US electric-vehicle and battery operations,... Read more »
Re-energised by his electoral upset in the midterm elections, President Javier Milei has announced that he may delay the Cabinet changes until December and the change of Congress. The decision will offer him respite... Read more »
Indigenous activists protested in Brasilia on October 14 during the pre-COP30 preparatory meeting – Copyright AFP/File Sergio Lima Kelly MACNAMARA The UN estimated Tuesday that nations’ carbon-cutting pledges imply a far-from-sufficient 10-percent... Read more »