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Amazon Prime Day 2025 Starts July 8 and Won’t End Until You’ve Bought Something
Android Headlines
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June 17, 2025
Amazon Prime Day returns July 8 through July 11, 2025. Doubling the length of Prime Day, likely due to the reduced customer spending over the past year. By making Prime Day last almost an entire week, Amazon is making it easier than ever for Prime...
Brazilian envoy meets BNP secretary general
Bangladesh Sangsbad Sangstha
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Brazilian Ambassador Paulo Fernando Dias Feres met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at the BNP chairperson's office in Gulshan, Dhaka. Photo : BSS DHAKA, June 17, 2025 - Brazilian Ambassador to Bangladesh Paulo Fernando Dias Feres...
Brazilian universities echo US campus censorship on Gaza
The New Arab
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June 17, 2025
When xenophobic graffiti appeared in a bathroom at São Paulo's Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) on March 18, declaring "Time to clean up RI (International Relations). PUC is not for Arabs. The PUC is ours. The rectory is ours," the...
Amazon extends July Prime Day to four day event, confirms 2025 dates
ZDNet
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June 17, 2025
James Martin/ZDNETIt's time to start adding to your cart. On Monday, Amazon announced the dates for its popular annual summer sale, Prime Day. Prime Day will return from Tuesday, July 8, through Friday, July 11, 2025, having been extended from the...
Brazilian biotech firm clinches top prize at Macau innovation contest
Macau Business
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June 17, 2025
Hilab, a Brazilian biotechnology company, has won the top prize at the fifth edition of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (Macao) for Technology Enterprises from Brazil and Portugal with MOP180,000 (US$22,300). Organised by the Macau...
Amazon officially details Prime Day 2025 – Start time, ‘millions’ of upcoming deals, more
9to5Toys
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June 17, 2025
We knew it was coming, but Amazon has now officially revealed the dates for Prime Day 2025. The July Prime Day event will take place from July 8 through to July 11. Amazon is taking things up a notch this year, expanding the usual 2-day event to...
Amazon Prime Day 2025 dates announced: 4 days of deals await in July
BGR - New York
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June 17, 2025
If it’s mid-June, some Amazon Prime subscribers are probably getting their affairs in order ahead of this year’s Prime Day sales event. You might be renewing your Prime subscription and saving products to your to-buy lists, hoping that Amazon...
Brazil targets more effective nationwide emergency response
Total Telecom
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June 17, 2025
Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) today announced it has been selected by the Band Administration Entity (EAF), an organisation created by the Brazilian Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), to implement a new federal mission-critical communications...
AMERICAS: Petrobras inks contracts for RNEST refinery expansion programme
Bunkerspot
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June 17, 2025
Details Written by Ian Taylor Published: 17 June 2025 Brazilian national oil company Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has signed three contracts with Consag Engenharia for construction projects that will double the refining capacity of its Abreu e...
Brazil 2014 scandal: I did my job – Justice Dzamefe on gov’t refusal to implement recommendations
Joy FM
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June 17, 2025
Supreme Court nominee, Justice Senyo Dzamefe, says he cannot be blamed for the government's refusal to implement some of the recommendations from the 2014 Commission of Inquiry. Justice Dzamefe headed the committee for investigations after the...
Health Community Demands Ambition On Ending Fossil Fuel Dependence And Robust Investment In Protecting Communities
Scoop
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Bonn, 16 May 2025:- As the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) SB62 UN Climate Change Conference opens today in Germany - and ahead of this year’s COP30 Climate Summit, in Belem, Brazil - the Global Climate and Health...
Brazil’s Lawmakers Challenge New Tax Increases on Loans and Investments
The Rio Times
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June 17, 2025
Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has taken a strong step to block a new government rule that would make borrowing and investing more expensive. On June 16, 2025, lawmakers voted 346 to 97 to fast-track a bill that could cancel the government’s recent...
Brazil Maintains Growth in 2025, but Warning Signs Emerge for Investors
The Rio Times
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June 17, 2025
Brazil’s economy started 2025 with solid growth, but signs of a slowdown are emerging as high interest rates and persistent inflation begin to weigh on businesses and consumers. According to the Central Bank and official figures, the country’s...
Brazil’s Competitiveness: Modest Gains, Persistent Challenges
The Rio Times
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June 17, 2025
Brazil moved up four places in the most recent global competitiveness rankings, now standing at 58th out of 69 economies. This result comes from the IMD World Competitiveness Center and reflects a mix of positive short-term trends and...
Content creators and online video gain ground over traditional media in Latin America, new report finds
LatAm Journalism Review
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June 17, 2025
Audiences for traditional media such as television, print, and news websites continue to shrink, while content creators and video and social media platforms are gaining ground, according to a new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of...
Record Debt and Defaults Signal Growing Financial Strain Across Brazil
The Rio Times
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June 17, 2025
Brazil has reached historic highs in both personal and corporate debt defaults, signaling deepening financial trouble and slower economic growth, according to official data from the Central Bank, Serasa Experian, and major financial analysts. By...
Here’s when Amazon Prime Day is taking place this year
Stuff
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June 17, 2025
Amazon Prime Day is the yearly extravaganza where Amazon chucks out stacks of deals. And to mess with us a little, in 2025 Amazon isn’t doing it for just 24 or 48 hours as we’d expected. Instead, it’ll be taking place over four whole days. The...
Two fugitives wanted for murder and child rape in Brazil avoid extradition
The Times
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Two fugitives wanted for murder and child rape in Brazil have successfully used Britain’s human rights laws to avoid extradition. Marlon Martins Dos Santos and Nicolas Gomes De Brito have both successfully fought extradition to Brazil after...
EDP Renewables North America Announces Start of Commercial Operations at Bar Harbor Solar in Maine
AltEnergyMag
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June 17, 2025
Bar Harbor Solar is EDPR NA’s second operational solar project in the Pine Tree State Bar Harbor, Maine (June 17, 2025) - EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR NA), a leading renewable energy developer and operator in the United States, today...
China’s Power Strategies in Latin America
Dialogo Magazine
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June 17, 2025
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a series of global initiatives to appear to be responding to today’s global challenges. However, as they advance in Latin America, these strategies prioritize Beijing’s geopolitical interests over...