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Rabobank: Australian milk production to continue decline
RaboResearch expects milk supply growth across the 'Big 7' dairy-exporting regions - New Zealand, the EU, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and the US, as well as Australia - to increase by 1.8pc year-on-year in the second half of 2025 to peak, before...

ICE raids send chill through tourism and hospitality industries
Global superstar Bad Bunny has said he left the United States off his upcoming world tour because he feared Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) might target his concerts. In an interview with i-D, he admitted he was worried that, as a Latino...

Consumers in El Salvador Benefit from Competitive Beef Market and Falling Retail Prices.
Consumers in El Salvador are beginning to see lower beef prices thanks to new international competitors entering the market. The Superintendence of Competition (SC) confirmed that the suspension of import tariffs and updates to sanitary...
Challenger Energy says its Chevron partnership is working well - ICYMI
Challenger Energy Group PLC (AIM:CEG, OTCQB:BSHPF) this week provided an update on its operations, highlighting progress across its Uruguay assets following the release of interim results. The company told investors that it achieved all the...
Weekly Japanese Industry and Policy News: 06 September - 12 September, 2025
The EU Japan Centre is releasing a weekly press review covering Japan's economic and policy matters. Economic News ▶ Japan scales up batteries but companies worry rule changes may curb growth 09 Sep, 2025 Investors have poured over $2.6 billion...

Uruguay's Finance Minister Gabriel Oddone.
Uruguay’s new left-wing government plans to lower the budget deficit through tax increases early in its term to avoid politically contentious spending cuts or additional levies later on, according to Finance Minister Gabriel Oddone. The mandate...

US set to overtake China as Uruguay’s top beef market
The United States is set to overtake China as Uruguay’s top market, fueled by firm demand and strong FOB (free on board) prices, while China’s dominance continues to erode after more than a decade at the top, the Agriculture Department’s Foreign...
Australia's milk production to decline amid global supply surge: report
SYDNEY, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Australia's milk production is set to fall again this season, as global milk supply surges across other key dairy-exporting regions, an industry report said on Thursday. The RaboResearch division of Rabobank, an...

Azerbaijan, Uruguay explore cooperation in green energy, infrastructure, and investment
Azerbaijan and Uruguay are exploring opportunities for cooperation across several strategic sectors, including renewable energy, green technologies, infrastructure, transport, industry, and food security, Azernews reports, citing the Ministry of...

From Uruguay to Turnberry – The Return of “Aggressive Unilateralism”
The bicycle theory of trade suggests that the global trading system, much like a bicycle, must maintain steady momentum toward freer trade—any failure to move forward will condemn the multilateral system to topple over and fall due to pressures of...

Uruguay secures CAF loan for dam construction
Tuesday, September 9th 2025 - 09:51 UTC CAF's Sergio Díaz-Granados praised Uruguay's stability Uruguay's state-owned water company, OSE, has secured a US$130 million loan from the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean to finance...
Challenger pinpoints prospects holding 380 million barrels of oil in Uruguay block
London-listed Challenger Energy has pinpointed two key prospects that could hold 380 million barrels of recoverable oil in its shallow-water Pelotas basin block offshore Uruguay. The company's share price responded positively to this news and was...

Viridien and Challenger leveraging seismic tech to explore in North Sea, offshore Uruguay
Challenger Energy said in a Sept. 9 operational update that it had completed the first phase of a technical work program for the AREA OFF-3 Block offshore Uruguay. Activity mostly involved reprocessing, interpreting and mapping of 1,250 sq km of...

NASA Data, Trainings Help Uruguay Navigate Drought
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA satellite data and trainings helped Uruguay create a drought-response tool that its National Water Authority now uses to monitor reservoirs and guide emergency decisions. A similar approach could be applied...
NDC Energy Commitments Tracker finds that no countries across the world yet have a plan aligning with COP28
In 2025, all countries are due to submit updated or new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) through 2035. These climate plans are a critical test of how governments are responding to the first Global Stocktake (GST-1). Released today, this...

Debt, political instability: France's great collapse in the European Union
France's political crisis and fiscal irresponsibility are undermining confidence in it among its European partners. In parliament, the centrist group "Renew Europe" is struggling to come to terms with the loss of its role as a decisive factor,...

Challenger Energy completes first phase of work offshore Uruguay
The AIM-traded company reported aggregate best estimate resources of around 380 million barrels from the two primary prospects, Benteveo and Amalia, with shallow water and reservoir depths expected to support relatively low development costs and...

"Mercosur will have a direct impact on the Spanish juice industry and fresh sector"
According to the Citrus Management Committee (CGC), the national employers' organization representing private exporters, the European Commission (EC) has overlooked this sector in its negotiations to ratify the treaty with Mercosur (Argentina,...

Freetown Court Adjourns High-Profile Drug Manufacturing and Possession Case
Magistrate Augustine Brima Samura who presides over Pademba Road Court No.8 on Monday 8th September 2025 again adjourned the matter of Umaru Mansaray who is before the court on allegation of illicit drug possession and drug manufacturing....

Chile vs Uruguay Prediction and Betting Tips | September 9th 2025
Chile and Uruguay bring their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign to an end when they go head-to-head on Tuesday. Marcelo Bielsa’s men, who are without a win in their last five away games in the qualifiers, will travel to the Estadio...