The city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia leveraged an indefinite strike against the federal government’s decision to delay an overdue population and housing census on Saturday. It is challenging the Bolivian Movement for Socialism (MAS) government’s decision to postpone the census until 2024.
On Oct. 25, Hurricane Otis struck the city of Acapulco on the Pacific coast of Mexico, leaving the country with landslides, flooding, and devastation, becoming the second-strongest storm in Mexico's history.
On Friday October 4, 2024, the European Union (EU) finished voting on the proposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). While countries like Hungary and Germany vocally disagreed to this proposition, a majority of EU countries had already voted in favor of the tariffs. The tariffs are only the beginning of a potential long-lasting economic cold war between China and the West.
