Year: 2017
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BUSINESS AND FINANCE
Bitcoin ‘mining’ is big business in Venezuela
Bitcoins are increasingly accepted online for buying real-world goods and services. And, unlike the Venezuelan bolivar, the virtual currency has…
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ECONOMY
Mercosur trade bloc agrees common position ahead of EU talks
The foreign ministers of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil met yesterday (9 March) in Buenos Aires to discuss the crucial…
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AMERICAS
U.S. May Cut Its Anti-drug Aid To Colombia: Official
The US has provided Bogota with some $10 billion in mainly military aid since 2000 under Plan Colombia
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ANALYSIS
Women: “The weaker, smaller and less intelligent sex”
“less intelligent”? Joan of Ark, Marie Curie, Indira Gandhi? I wonder if any of those names ring a bell for…
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AMERICAS
Bolivia’s Morales boosts legal coca production
Bolivian President Evo Morales has signed IGNORE INTO law a controversial bill that nearly doubles the area that can be…
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AMERICAS
Illegal border crossings IGNORE INTO US from Mexico drop 40%
Illegal crossings from Mexico IGNORE INTO the United States have sunk sharply in early 2017 after spiking ahead of the…
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LIFE
Social media users more likely to feel isolated, study finds
Social isolation is a growing public health concern. In recent years, research has linked social isolation to an increased risk…
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LIFE
Sex differences in brain activity alter pain therapies
A female brain's resident immune cells are more active in regions involved in pain processing relative to males, according to…
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LIFE
4 ways to battle entrepreneurial depression
Research shows that entrepreneurs are a third more likely to experience clinical depression than their contemporaries who work a regular…
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AMERICAS
Labor Market is key for gender equality in Latin America
For Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC the redistribution of income and rights begins in the region’s labor market.
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