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BRICS: Tinubu Raises Alarm Over Environmental Degradation, Climate Crisis
Naija News reports that the Nigerian President stated this at the 17th meeting of the Global South and the Emerging Economies bloc, BRICS, on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tinubu urged greater equity and inclusion for low-income and emerging...

Inter-American court affirms legal right to a healthy climate
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) published its opinion on Thursday that all countries in the Americas have legal obligations under human rights law to confront the climate crisis. The court’s Advisory Opinion OC-32/25, issued on...

Were the Bonn climate talks promising for the upcoming COP30?
This year's June Climate Meetings (SB62), also known as the Bonn Climate Change Conference, under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), concluded on June 26 in Bonn, Germany. The mission of these annual mid-year meetings is to...

Bolivia: State Capacity and Democracy
For the second time, Evo Morales’s photo will not appear on the ballot for the upcoming August elections. In response, the former president has on three occasions ordered his followers to block roads and attack law enforcement. The most recent...

Baja California Sur launches EMBRACE IT: an initiative to support sustainable tourism
The Government of the State of Baja California Sur will officially implement the EMBRACE IT tax on foreign visitors who stay in the state for more than 24 hours. This measure aims to generate funds to strengthen natural environmental conservation,...

Bolivian congress brawls over China, Russia lithium deals
LA PAZ (Reuters) -Bolivia's energy minister was doused with water and pelted with garbage on Thursday as chaos erupted in congress during a debate on controversial lithium contracts with Chinese and Russian firms that could bring in investments...

Baja California Sur launches EMBRACE IT: an initiative to support sustainable tourism through its new Tourism Development Strategy
LA PAZ, Mexico, July 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - The Government of the State of Baja California Sur will officially implement the EMBRACE IT tax on foreign visitors who stay in the state for more than 24 hours. This measure aims to generate funds to...

PM Modi To Meet South American, Caribbean Leaders On BRICS Summit Sidelines In Brazil
Home South America PM Modi To Meet South American, Caribbean Leaders On BRICS Summit Sidelines... As India eyes permanent membership in global decision-making bodies and ramps up its green transition, Latin America offers critical support, votes...

Environment Ministry releases 40,000 baby totoaba into the Gulf of California
As part of a milestone conservation effort led by Mexico’s Environment Ministry, 40,000 baby totoaba fish were released into the waters of the Gulf of California, a unique ecosystem where this threatened species is endemic. This marks the tenth...
U.S. Military Airlifts Relief Supplies to Flood Victims in Bolivia
MIAMI, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES 03.04.2007 Courtesy Story U.S. Southern Command here has partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Navy’s Project Handclasp to airlift more than $30,000 of emergency relief supplies to...

BRICS welcomes Indonesia as new full member; PM Modi hails ‘ability to evolve with times’
Leaders of the BRICS nations welcomed Indonesia as a member of the group, while 10 nations, including Belarus, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Malaysia, Thailand, Cuba, Vietnam, Uganda, and Uzbekistan, as partner countries. The joint declaration of...

Argentina and Paraguay Plan Direct Gas Pipeline to Brazil, Bypassing Bolivia
Argentina and Paraguay are working together on a plan to build a new gas pipeline that would send natural gas from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale fields directly to Brazil, passing through Paraguay. This project, announced at the Mercosur summit in...

Nations Must Act to Face Climate Crisis, Top Regional Court Says
Governments’ existing human rights obligations require them to do all they can to mitigate the harms of the climate crisis, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concluded in a new advisory opinion issued Thursday. The seven-judge panel found...

At BRICS summit, Tinubu calls for re-evaluation of global governance, others
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called for a reevaluation of the current global governance structure and the financial and healthcare systems, urging greater equity and inclusion for low-income and emerging economies, particularly in Africa. At...

Tinubu Backs BRICS On Advancing Collective, Fair, Equitable Global Development Practices
1 INNOCENT OWEH ABUJA – President Bola Tinubu has said Nigeria is not averse to BRICS position to focus on collective, fair, and equitable global development, insisting that it was high time a global governance structure, financial and healthcare...

BRICS: Tinubu advocates global governance structure, finance, healthcare systems rejig
President Bola Tinubu has called for a reevaluation of the current global governance structure and the financial and healthcare systems, urging greater equity and inclusion for low-income and emerging economies, particularly in Africa. Bayo...

Let’s Review Global Governance Structure, Finance, Health Care Systems— Tinubu T
President Bola Tinubu has called for a reevaluation of the current global governance structure and the financial and healthcare systems, urging greater equity and inclusion for low-income and emerging economies, particularly in Africa. At the 17th...

Hobbs talks legislative session, from groundwater to school vouchers
PHOENIX – The way Katie Hobbs sees it, the just completed legislative session was the best that could be hoped for in a divided government. In a wide-ranging interview with Capitol Media Services, she noted the $17.6 billion budget that eventually...

Tinubu Calls for Global Governance Reform at BRICS Summit
President Bola Tinubu has urged for a reevaluation of the current global governance structure, financial, and healthcare systems to promote greater equity and inclusion for low-income and emerging economies, particularly in Africa. Speaking at the...

Lost Temple of a Vanished Civilization Unearthed in Bolivia
Stone alignments revealed an ancient temple, called Palaspata after the native name for the area. The temple complex is approximately 125 meters long by 145 meters wide — about the size of a city block — and includes 15 quadrangular enclosures...