Agricultural land in Central Asia and the Caucasus is degrading at an alarming rate. Officials did a lot of handwringing about the issue during a roundtable at the recently completed COP29 environmental conclave. But in highlighting urgent needs, participants didn’t proffer many ideas about how to mitigate the myriad challenges.  Globally, about 40 percent of agricultural land is vulnerable to degradation, Azerbaijan’s agriculture minister, Majnun Mammadov, stated in his opening remarks at the roundtable, adding as much as 12 million…

2 de diciembre de 2024.- La secretaria general de Conadu Histórica, Francisca Staiti, enfatizó la necesidad de «una navidad sin salarios por debajo de la línea de pobreza». En un contexto de creciente descontento social, el Frente Sindical de Universidades Nacionales ha convocado a una manifestac...

Es 2 de diciembre, mes 12 del 2024. Es el día número 337 del año (bisiesto) y faltan 29 días para su terminación, pues tiene 366 días. Hoy es lunes. Los años bisiestos se presentan cada cuatro años en los que se añade un día más a febrero (29 F) y el año es de 366 días. ...

Panama will cancel the registration of six ships sailing under its flag after they were sanctioned by the UK last week. The delisting comes after Panama’s maritime authority in October pledged to penalize vessels sanctioned by the U.S., European Union, UK and United Nations. Moscow continues to export large volumes of crude despite sanctions by the West. “Safeguarding the prestige of our flag is a top priority for this administration. The state has a fundamental responsibility to protect the integrity of the Panamanian ship registry,…

Panama will cancel the registration of six ships sailing under its flag after they were sanctioned by the UK last week. The delisting comes after Panama’s maritime authority in October pledged to penalize vessels sanctioned by the U.S., European Union, UK and United Nations. Moscow continues to export large volumes of crude despite sanctions by the West. “Safeguarding the prestige of our flag is a top priority for this administration. The state has a fundamental responsibility to protect the integrity of the Panamanian ship registry,…

Panama will cancel the registration of six ships sailing under its flag after they were sanctioned by the UK last week. The delisting comes after Panama’s maritime authority in October pledged to penalize vessels sanctioned by the U.S., European Union, UK and United Nations. Moscow continues to export large volumes of crude despite sanctions by the West. “Safeguarding the prestige of our flag is a top priority for this administration. The state has a fundamental responsibility to protect the integrity of the Panamanian ship registry,…

Anticipating that President-elect Donald Trump will fulfill his promise of a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico and Canada and an additional 10% tariff on imports from China, importers are frontloading freight before the tariff wall takes effect in less than two months. Bloomberg reports that international cargo flights out of the world's second-largest economy are ramping up to new records in the weeks after the presidential election.  According to the Ministry of Transport data, there were 3,485 international cargo flights in or out of…

2 de diciembre de 2024.- En Alemania, miles de trabajadores de Volkswagen se declararon en huelga, después de que la compañía anunciara planes de cerrar tres plantas y recortar las pensiones. "Las huelgas de advertencia comenzarán desde este día en todas las plantas", afirmó Thorsten Gröger, que ...

A Chinese company that owns a California manufacturing plant has sent hundreds of shipments of restricted dual-use electronics to Russia since the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, including to sanctioned companies with ties to the Russian military. At least one component manufactured by the company, Yangzhou Yangjie Electronic Technology Company Limited, was found in a Russian weapons guidance system recovered from the battlefield in Ukraine, according to a public database maintained by the Ukrainian military. Yangjie Technology, located in Yangzhou…

2 de diciembre de 2024.- El fiscal general de la República, Tarek William Saab, ofreció este día una serie de actualizaciones de casos vinculados a la violencia postelectoral ocurrida en todo el territorio nacional. Asimismo, rechazó la identificación como «presos políticos» que ciertos sectores de ...

Oil and commodities trading powerhouse Trafigura Group and three other defendants went on trial on Monday in Switzerland's top criminal court over allegations of bribery. According to Reuters, Trafigura has been charged for failing to take all reasonable measures to prevent payment of more than $5 million in bribes to an Angolan oil official in exchange for oil and shipping contracts more than a decade ago. Trafigura said that its former parent company, Trafigura Beheer BV (TBBV), will defend itself, "TBBV's anti-bribery and anti-corruption controls…

Oil and commodities trading powerhouse Trafigura Group and three other defendants went on trial on Monday in Switzerland's top criminal court over allegations of bribery. According to Reuters, Trafigura has been charged for failing to take all reasonable measures to prevent payment of more than $5 million in bribes to an Angolan oil official in exchange for oil and shipping contracts more than a decade ago. Trafigura said that its former parent company, Trafigura Beheer BV (TBBV), will defend itself, "TBBV's anti-bribery and anti-corruption controls…

Cryptocurrency ownership is gaining popularity across Central Asia and the Caucasus, according to a report prepared by a group of financial services companies. Uzbekistan has the highest adoption rate for crypto assets in the regions and ranks 33rd globally. The Russian-language report, titled Digital Assets in Central Asia and the Caucasus, shows that almost 1.5 percent of Uzbekistan’s population, or roughly 512,000 individuals, owns cryptocurrency. The 15 licensed cryptocurrency exchanges and outlets operating in Uzbekistan handled over…

2 de diciembre de 2024.- Con conversatorios, documentales, presentaciones de libros y conciertos continúa hoy una jornada en homenaje a la reconocida luchadora contra los crímenes de la última dictadura cívico-militar en Argentina Hebe de Bonafini (1928-2022). Como parte de las iniciativas para c...

More than 100 years ago, a ship left a Nova Scotia harbor carrying a precious cargo that few today would recognize as valuable. The crew, full of optimism, was bound for Wales hoping that the metal they carried would lead them to riches. Unfortunately, they never made it. A German U-boat lurking in the cold Atlantic waters fired a torpedo and the ship went down, sinking to the ocean floor along with its mysterious cargo. At the time, the metal seemed unimportant, but its true value wasn’t fully realized until later. Fast forward to today…

2 de diciembre de 2024.- El Canal YouTube, PALESTINA 11MIL AÑOS DE HISTORIA, conversa con el Investigador cultural, Ariel Barrera Haddad, colombiano de origen Arabo-Sirio. Es vicepresidente de la Asociación Cultural Colombo-Árabe de Cartagena. Haddad dijo que después de la imposición colonial en...

For years, internationally-sanctioned Iran has used non-internationally-sanctioned Iraq as a front through which it can move whatever it wants wherever it wants whenever it wants to. This includes its sanctioned oil and gas, sanctioned funds, and sanctioned goods and people. This has been enabled by a succession of U.S. governments that granted Iraq waiver after waiver to continue to import Iranian energy which Iraq needs because its own endemically corrupt oil and gas sector has eaten away its ability to meet its own power requirements. The U.S.’s…

2 de diciembre de 2024.- Este domingo, 1 de diciembre, concluyó el proceso de postulación para las candidaturas a jueces y juezas de paz comunal, en todos los circuitos comunales, con miras a la elección convocada para el próximo 15 de diciembre, tras la aprobación de la Ley Orgánica de Justicia y P...

On December 1, Azerbaijan’s state oil company, SOCAR, started supplying natural gas to Slovakia’s Slovenský plynárenský priemysel (SPP), the country’s largest state-owned energy operator. This comes just a month after SPP signed a short-term pilot contract to buy natural gas from Azerbaijan as it prepares for a possible halt to Russian supplies via Ukraine. Last year, Ukraine signaled it has no intention to renew a five-year pipeline transit agreement to supply natural gas to EU countries when it expires on…

On December 1, Azerbaijan’s state oil company, SOCAR, started supplying natural gas to Slovakia’s Slovenský plynárenský priemysel (SPP), the country’s largest state-owned energy operator. This comes just a month after SPP signed a short-term pilot contract to buy natural gas from Azerbaijan as it prepares for a possible halt to Russian supplies via Ukraine. Last year, Ukraine signaled it has no intention to renew a five-year pipeline transit agreement to supply natural gas to EU countries when it expires on…