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The country has created a presidential commission to fight the trafficking of synthetic drugs, firearms and ammunition, as officials are heading to Washington to meet with their US and Canadian counterparts to tackle the issue

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is traveling to China, in a mission to boost economic ties to its largest trading partner and re-establish the state’s role in global diplomacy

The Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium will need major renovations to prepare for next year's World Relays with some $30 million worth of work that the Chinese government has offered to partly fund

A total of $13 billion in affordable loans and credit guarantees were provided for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) by the Government during fiscal year 2022/23

Citizens can now obtain passports and national identity cards online through a new platform that the Haitian government launched on 2 April

Twenty youths from across the country have completed a four-day photo camp organized by the National Geographic Explorers in partnership with the locally-based Project Cetacean Translation Initiative

The Justice Department appealed a Texas court ruling that would halt approval of a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the US; the unprecedented case of a lone judge overruling the FDA’s medical decisions could put at risk other medications

The Tannat, a hard-to-grow red grape from France, has successfully flourished in the country - over 6.000 miles away from its origin, putting Uruguay on the global wine map

Using two decades of NASA satellite data, scientists will assess the vulnerability of the country’s coral reefs to bleaching and collapse; the findings could help authorities protect the reefs from human impacts such as overfishing and pollution

At a summit called by Mexico to discuss inflation, President Luis Arce proposed to address the climate crisis in the first place, as this crisis has made food production and logistics more expensive

The country’s shrimp exports have increased by approximately 22% this year due to China’s increase in demand, mainly due to the product’s easiness when it comes to freshness and food safety regulations

The International Court of Justice has delivered its judgment on the case of the Venezuela and Guyana border dispute, and has rejected Venezuela’s stance on claiming Guyana’s territory and opinion that a 19th century dispute can’t be judged