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In May 1988, Alejandra Arévalo became the first female geologist to enter an underground mine in Chile. In doing so, she defied a popular myth: that a woman brings bad luck by venturing into a mine. She also broke the law.

Developing-world currencies were mixed on Tuesday as traders awaited key speeches and data that could shed light on the outlook for US interest rates while losses in Hong Kong-listed tech stocks drove emerging-market equities lower. 

(Reuters) — Chile's Cencosud, one of Latin America's largest retailers, on Tuesday reported a 42% fall in fourth-quarter net profit, landing at 83.3 billion pesos ($94 million), while revenues shrunk 16% to 3.30 trillion pesos.

NEW DELHI : The governor of Argentina’s lithium-rich Catamarca province Raúl Jalil is to visit India this year, said the country’s largest state-owned mining firm Camyen, in a potential boost to in India’s lithium sourcing play. India is keen to secure assured supplies of lithium, widely used in making batteries for electric vehicles. In January this year, Camyen and India’s state-owned mining firm Kabil signed an agreement for the latter to explore and develop five lithium blocks.

By Andrea Shalal

Bank of Nova Scotia missed analysts’ estimates for loan-loss provisions amid growing stress in consumer lending as the Canadian economy weakens as well as higher delinquencies among retail borrowers in its Latin American businesses.

UK, Australia and Canada to study, enrolment numbers have been growing at schools in countries such as Lithuania, Estonia, Chile, Turkey, Malta, Taiwan and South Korea among others — not education destinations that readily spring to mind. More Indian students are heading to these nations this year, executives at halfa-dozen study abroad platforms and strategy consultant Redseer confirmed to ET. Click & check your eligibility for immigration Find out There are multiple reasons for the lack of interest. Post-Brexit UK is suffering from a poor economy and a worsening attitude to migrants.

quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day.The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The black hole powering this distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun, an Australian-led team reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.While the quasar resembles a mere dot in images, scientists envision a ferocious place.The rotating disk around the quasar’s black hole — the luminous swirling gas and other matter from gobbled-up stars — is like a cosmic hurricane.“This quasar is the most violent place that we know in the universe,” lead author Christian Wolf of Australian National University said in an email.The European Southern Observatory spotted the object, J0529-4351, during a 1980 sky survey, but it was thought to be a star.

World Table Tennis Team Championships campaign on a winning note here on Saturday. Star Indian paddler Sharath Kamal, ranked 95, started off the proceedings in dominant fashion, racing to a 11-5 11-8 11-6 win over world number 53 Nicholas Burgos. India's top-ranked paddler and reigning national champion Harmeet Desai continued the momentum, beating the lowly-ranked Gustavo Gomez for a facile 11-8 11-7 11-6 win. G Sathiyan was stretched in the first game by Olivares Felipe but the Indian paddler battled it out to seal the tie with a 12-10 11-8 11-8 victory.

NEW DELHI : India has resumed trade talks with Peru after a long gap, with the sixth round of India-Peru negotiations for a trade agreement held in the South American country from 12 to 14 February. Various working group meetings were held, including on trade in goods, rules of origin, trade in services, customs procedures and trade facilitation, dispute settlement, and legal and institutional Issues, the ministry of commerce and industry said in a statement on Thursday “These meetings involved the participation of more than 70 delegates from both countries together, including their respective negotiating teams," it said. Over the next fortnight, other working groups will hold virtual meetings on technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and trade remedies and cooperation.

By Dietrich Knauth

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian airline Gol does not expect its Chapter 11 proceedings to trigger job cuts, its chief executive said on Friday, reiterating that the carrier's operations will remain as usual while it is under bankruptcy protection.

free trade agreement between India and the four-nation EFTA bloc are at an advanced stage as both sides have reached a shared understanding on key issues, a senior official has said. The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) members are Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland. India and the EFTA have been negotiating the pact, officially dubbed as Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA), since January 2008 to boost economic ties.

The deal is set to be finalised in the upcoming days, as it is still subject to final reviews by lawyers in the UK and Chile, although it has already been approved by UK regulators.

Barrow was most recently at Investec Wealth & Investment as a wealth manager and senior investment director, where she spent more than 15 years.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) — Chile's SQM, the world's second-largest lithium producer, said it has suspended operations at the Atacama salt flat in Chile due to road blockades.

Federal Reserve poised to lead the charge for richer countries. Traders boosted bets on how aggressively the Fed will lower borrowing costs this year after a report showed prices paid to producers continued to fall in December. Even so, the path to taming inflation will be bumpy, as a measure of consumer prices rose by the most in three months. Similar metrics in Norway and Chile eased in December, while Argentina ended the year with inflation above 200%.

Worldcoin has hit a new record in Argentina and released an update to the verification process. A spokesperson talked with Cryptonews about plans in 2024, Worldcoin surpassing the 5M-accounts milestone, the successful Shopify integration, and continued World App adoption in India, despite pausing its Orb-verification service there.

TOKYO—China’s near-monopoly on the solar-energy market has prompted the U.S. and allies to step up the search for workarounds. Engineers believe they have found one in a type of solar cell that looks and feels like camera film.

Japan skipper Yuri Nagai on Sunday said they made a few changes to their squad following a heart-breaking loss to India in the Asian Champions Trophy final and picked themselves as a top contender for the Women's Olympic qualifiers. Japan and New Zealand, the final two remaining teams, arrived here on Sunday for the highly-anticipated Olympic Qualifiers beginning on January 13. «Among the Asian representatives, Japan and India are the sole contenders in this tournament.

United Cup opening the season. Sydney and Perth are co-hosting the second edition of the tournament, which sees nations face off in a mixed-gender format. Everyone's eyes will be on Iga Swiatek and Novak Djokovic who are in representing their respective countries. So far, Spain vs Brazil, Canada vs Chile, Poland vs Brazil, Poland vs Spain, Greece vs Chile, Greece vs Canda, Great Britain vs Australia, USA vs Great Britain, USA vs Australia, Italy vs Germany, France vs Germany, France vs Italy, Czech Republic vs China, China vs Serbia, Czech Republic vs Serbia, Netherlands vs Norway, Croatia vs Norway, Croatia vs Netherlands, Poland vs China has taken place.