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Lula’s ministers attack big techs to defend the Censorship Bill
Ricardo Cappelli, the acting minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI) of the Presidency of the Republic, attacked the big techs on social networks...
Angola: Biocom expects to produce 120,000 tonnes of sugar this year
Angola's Bioenergy Company (Biocom) expects to produce this year about 120,000 tonnes of sugar, 19 million liters of ethanol, and 57,000 MWh of clean...
Mozambique announces new natural gas discovery
South African oil company Sasol has discovered new natural gas reserves off the Mozambican coast of Inhassoro, south of the country, the National Petroleum...
Cow poop to stuffed rats: inspectors show seizures at airport
By Natalia Eiras
When we travel, everything can become a memory of the good times we spent getting to know a new place.
Or, if you...
Alligator burger? The world’s largest producer of this meat is in Brazil
By Carlos Eduardo Oliveira
At a huge gourmet barbecue event, with dozens of options for hundreds of diners, there is a continuous, endless line, the...
Plane crash in a dam in São Paulo with at least two dead
Two people died, and two others are still missing after a seaplane crashed into a dam in Bragança Paulista this Sunday afternoon (30).
Fire Department...
Cape Verde’s trade balance deficit worsens again in March
According to the statistical report of Foreign Trade of the Cape Verdean INE, this result was aggravated by the increase in imports, which grew...
Portuguese-speaking countries’ exports to Macau rose 49%
According to official figures released today, exports of goods from Portuguese-speaking countries to Macau in the first eleven months of 2022 rose 49% compared...
The 10 most expensive office buildings in Faria Lima, São Paulo
By Juliana Estigarríbia*
The global real estate market maxim "location, location, location" has never been more appropriate for Faria Lima, São Paulo's financial center.
Despite the...
Oil heads for sixth monthly drop and the worst performance since 2015
By Paul Burkhardt and Yongchang Chin
Despite the slight rise in West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for June on Friday (28), the commodity's prices are...
Jamaica to receive two patrol boats and coastal surveillance radars
By Carlos E. Hernandez
The receipt of patrol vessels and radars is part of the Ministry of National Security's procurement and infrastructure construction plans for...
Guinea-Bissau needs US$3.5 million to make the June elections possible
Guinea-Bissau needs US$3.5 million to make the legislative elections of June 4 possible and is waiting for the international community to mobilize this amount,...
TACV reconnects three Cape Verdean islands to Paris with two weekly frequencies
The state-owned company Transportes Aereos de Cabo Verde (TACV) announced today the resumption of flights between Praia, Sal, São Vicente, and Paris as of...
China’s small steps toward offshore use of the yuan
The Chinese currency yuan, is slowly but surely being introduced for more international payments.
Analysts believe this could lay the groundwork for a trading system...