Biden will receive Ursula Von der Leyen at the White House on March 10
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will meet on March 10 with the President of the United States, Joe Biden, at the White House, as part of a week-long trip to North America that will also take her to Canada,…
Visa proposes to use blockchain for secure and automated payments
Visa has proposed a concept called "Account Abstraction" (AA) in a whitepaper aimed at developers of Ethereum-compatible systems.
This solution would allow users to intelligently and securely schedule recurring payments by setting up a…
Colombia implements special residence permit for Venezuelans
The Colombian migration service implemented a new plan to expedite the delivery of documents to Venezuelan citizens who have not yet obtained them. This is the Temporary Protection Permit, PPT in Spanish.
According to the statement, the…
Cano Caporales: Add and multiply to fulfill the World Cup dream
One of the great Venezuelan objectives, which convenes and unites the most, for the coming years, and the most important in soccer -without a doubt-, is that Venezuela manages to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, to be held jointly in Canada,…
Julie Su was appointed US Minister of Labor
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, appointed Julie Su as successor to Marty Walsh, who announced two weeks ago his resignation as the North American country's labor minister to assume the executive direction of the National…
Venezuela will resume connection with Caribbean islands
This Saturday, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, confirmed the reopening of the commercial connection with the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao in April and May.
On his Twitter account, Gil posted the schedule, where he noted…
World Bank estimates earthquake damage in Turkey at $34 billion
The World Bank estimated the damage caused by the earthquakes that devastated southeastern Turkey earlier this month at about $34 billion. However, the institution warns that the real cost of reconstruction could double that figure.
The…
From Bogotá, the internationalization of SMEs will be promoted
The Bogotá Chamber of Commerce (CCB), together with the World Federation of Chambers of Commerce (WCF) will hold the event "Business opportunities with the regions of the world" between February 27 and March 1st, in which it will seek to…
Japan and Russia will test their CBDC coins in April
The central banks of Russia and Japan announced that in April they will launch the pilot tests of their CBDCs, planes that they have been working on for a few months.
The executive director of the Japan Bank, Uchida Shinichi, declared this…
NASA to launch Israel’s first space telescope
NASA will launch in early 2026 the first Israeli space telescope mission, the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT).
ULTRASAT, an ultraviolet observatory with a large field of view, will investigate the secrets of…
The ministers of the Contact Group on Venezuela meet in March
The International Contact Group will hold a virtual meeting of foreign ministers on March 21, with a view to continuing to make progress to achieve "a peaceful and democratic solution" to the crisis that Venezuela has been going through for…