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Unas 300 personas han cortado la Gran Vía de Madrid a las 11.00 de este jueves en una manifestación para reclamar soluciones para las personas sin hogar. La protesta, organizada por la red FACIAM, ha reunido a representantes de entidades sociales, colectivos deportivos y personas que viven en la calle, muchas de ellas preocupadas por la llegada del frío y la falta de alternativas habitacionales.

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Cars prices in Pakistan are touching the roof and of you’ve been holding off on buying a new car in Pakistan, the government’s proposed Auto Policy 2026–31 might finally give your wallet some much-needed breathing room.
By planning to scrap the 2.5% Federal Excise Duty (FED) on locally assembled and imported cars under 1,000cc, the market could soon see some noticeable price drops.
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For everyday buyers, the Suzuki Alto is the biggest story. Depending on the variant, the Alto could see a price cut of Rs 70,000 to Rs 81,000, bringing the base VXR model down to around Rs 2.92 million. If you’re eyeing a Suzuki Cultus, you might save over Rs 106,000, while the Suzuki Every could drop by about Rs 72,000. For a slightly more premium ride, the Kia Stonic stands to shed the biggest chunk of its price tag, potentially dropping anywhere from Rs 1.30 lakh to Rs 1.45 lakh.
Import enthusiasts also have a reason to be optimistic. Popular Japanese models like the Daihatsu Mira, Toyota Passo, and Honda N-One could become more affordable if they meet the specific engine and customs criteria. To sweeten the deal for local manufacturers, the policy also plans to slash duties on imported parts for these smaller cars from 46% down to 30%.
Just don’t head to the dealership quite yet. While the Prime Minister has approved the draft in principle, it still has to clear final bureaucratic hurdles and IMF-related reviews. Most importantly, it will ultimately be up to automakers like Pak Suzuki and Lucky Motor Corporation to actually pass these tax savings down to the consumer once the final legal notifications are issued.
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Transmitido por mosquitos e mais comumente encontrado em bovinos, o vírus Shamonda também já foi detectado em cavalos, alpacas, ovelhas e cabras, informou a Organização Mundial de Saúde Animal (WOAH, na sigla em inglês).
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“O Centro Europeu de Prevenção e Controle de Doenças (ECDC) está monitorando cuidadosamente a situação, após as autoridades francesas terem anunciado o primeiro caso já registrado de infecção humana pelo vírus Shamonda, uma doença que, até agora, afetava apenas animais”, afirmou o ECDC, com sede em Estocolmo, em comunicado.
O ECDC está em contato com autoridades francesas e parceiros europeus para investigar as possíveis implicações para a saúde pública.
O anúncio francês indicou que a hipótese principal é que o paciente tenha sido infectado no leste da França, onde o vírus circulou entre animais nesta primavera e verão.
“Com base no conhecimento disponível sobre esse vírus, nenhum risco à saúde da população em geral foi identificado até o momento”, afirmou o comunicado.
O ECDC informou que o paciente morreu no início de outubro e lembrou que a vítima vinha recebendo tratamento para uma doença grave que a tornava mais suscetível à infecção do que a população em geral.
“Estão em andamento investigações para determinar se o vírus causou ou contribuiu para a morte do paciente e como a infecção foi contraída”, disse.
Atualmente, não há vacinas comercialmente disponíveis contra o vírus Shamonda, informou a WOAH.
Identificado na Nigéria em meados da década de 1960, o vírus Shamonda foi confirmado pela primeira vez na Europa no final de julho, após testes genômicos em bovinos doentes no sul da Alemanha, na Suíça e no leste da França.
Um relatório do boletim semanal de vigilância sanitária animal da França indicou que o vírus também havia sido detectado na Áustria, Bélgica, Irlanda, Itália, em Liechtenstein, Luxemburgo, na Holanda, em Portugal, na Eslovênia, Espanha e na ilha de Jersey, no Reino Unido.
Um estudo feito em nove fazendas leiteiras francesas constatou que a produção de leite caiu em até 75% nos rebanhos afetados.
*(Reportagem adicional de Makini Brice e Jennifer Rigby)
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Em relação a julho deste ano, a atividade econômica da 2ª maior economia da América do Sul cresceu 0,1%.
Os dados são do Instituto Nacional de Estatística e Censos (Indec) da Argentina, instituição oficial responsável por medir os indicadores sociais e econômicos do país.
No acumulado de 2026 terminado em agosto, a economia argentina cresceu 1,2%, ante um crescimento de 1,7% registrado no acumulado do ano terminado em julho.
A economista Clara Brenck, professora adjunta no Departamento de Economia da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), explicou à Agência Brasil que a Argentina pode estar entrando em uma recessão econômica.
“O desemprego também aumentou muito, o que também é indício disso [recessão]. Acho que o cenário é preocupante da Argentina. Talvez a única coisa boa que se pode tirar disso é a redução da inflação, que eles conseguiram, mas também muito dependente da variação do dólar”, comentou.
As atividades que mais contribuíram para derrubar a economia argentina em agosto deste ano foram, principalmente, o setor de pesca (-15,7%); intermediação financeira (-3,8%); comércio atacadista, varejista e reparações (-3,5%), indústria manufatureira (-3,2%); transportes e comunicações (-2,9%); e construção (-2,5%).
Por outro lado, contribuíram para elevar a economia da Argentina os setores de mineração e petróleo (+11,1); eletricidade, gás e água (+4,3); e hotéis e restaurantes (+3,1%).
A professora Ana Brenck, que também é pesquisadora do Centro de Pesquisa em Macroeconomia das Desigualdades da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de São Paulo (Made/USP), disse que são os setores de petróleo, gás e mineração o que tem “segurado que essa recessão não fosse pior”.
“Porém, são setores que dependem muito do mercado externo, de preços internacionais. O que está crescendo são coisas que não dependem da economia doméstica, basicamente. Por isso, não acho que dá para comemorar esse resultado”, disse.
Ana Paula cita as quedas dos setores industriais e comerciais como preocupantes por empregarem mais trabalhadores. Ela avalia que as políticas de corte de gastos do presidente Javier Milei contribuíram para esse cenário.
“Os cortes de imposto que o Milei fez com a promessa de que isso iria gerar investimento e aumentar a atividade econômica no setor privado, a gente não está observando isso”, concluiu.
Para especialista, o dado mais positivo foi o crescimento do setor hoteleiro “no sentido de segurar a queda do desemprego, mas, claro, é um setor também que tem um peso muito pequeno comparado com os outros”.
O ministro da Economia da Argentina, Luis Caputo, destacou o crescimento de 0,1% em agosto se comparado com julho. “Com essa dinâmica, o indicador tendência-ciclo se posicionou 6,6% acima do nível de dezembro de 2023”, explicou em uma rede social.
Caputo acrescentou ainda os dados das exportações agroindustriais de setembro, que teriam alcançado um máximo histórico do mês.
“Nos primeiros 9 meses do ano, as exportações da agroindústria somaram US$ 43.206 milhões de dólares, crescendo 13% em relação ao mesmo período de 2025 e registrando também um recorde histórico em volume”, comemorou o ministro.
Shortly after starting his second term, President Donald Trump urged the American auto industry to help realize his dream of a domestic manufacturing revival.
He began by promising untold riches from tariffs on foreign automakers.
“Congratulations, if you make your car in the United States, you’re going to make a lot of money,” Trump told NBC News in March 2025. “If you don’t, you’re going to have to probably come to the United States, because if you make your car in the United States, there is no tariff.”
Trump cast himself as a friend to American carmakers. But it didn’t take long for him to show how unpredictable that friendship could be — and how much it could threaten their bottom line.
In less than two years, three major policy decisions from the Trump administration have left the American auto industry in a worse position than it had been in 2024, struggling to keep pace with Chinese electric-vehicle makers, paying more for materials and facing weaker demand for traditional gasoline-powered vehicles.
The shift toward electric cars was already underway when President Joe Biden took office, but he helped nudge it along.
The Biden administration encouraged automakers to build EVs by imposing stricter fuel economy standards for gas-powered cars and creating a $7,500 tax credit to help consumers buy electric.
Foreign automakers were gaining ground in the U.S. market, and Detroit’s Big Three saw affordable EVs as a chance to win customers back. They bet heavily on that future, building battery factories and rolling out scores of new models. For a while, sales surged.
The transition proved harder than automakers had hoped. As Biden left office, EVs remained too expensive for many buyers, and demand was not growing fast enough to justify the industry’s ambitious plans. Still, American automakers were willing to wait. Before Trump returned to the White House, Ford, Stellantis and General Motors asked him to keep the EV mandates in place.
Trump ignored the request, pulling away the supports that had helped the market grow. His administration paused $3 billion in federal funding for a program to expand charging stations. Then, in the summer of 2025, Republicans scrapped the $7,500 tax credit for EV buyers.
The president, however, threw his support behind Tesla, the EV automaker run by billionaire Elon Musk, who served as the chief architect of the chaotic Trump-backed effort to downsize the federal government. At one point in March 2025, Trump turned the White House grounds into a makeshift showroom featuring Tesla vehicles and bought a red Model S at market price. The presidential stamp of approval though did nothing to end the 40% freefall in Tesla’s share prices through the spring.
Meanwhile, Detroit’s automakers were left scrambling to change course. They took $52 billion in losses on their short-lived push toward an electric future. Stellantis, the maker of Jeep, accounted for about half the total. Ford discontinued its all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup — the same truck Biden had once taken for a spin.
“Instead of plowing billions into the future knowing these large EVs will never make money, we are pivoting,” Ford CEO Jim Farley told The Wall Street Journal in December.
Next came the tariffs. Trump quickly revived the trade wars from his first term, imposing taxes on imported cars starting in March 2025.
Some auto parts qualified for an exemption under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement his first administration negotiated in 2020. But the tariffs still raised costs for American-made cars, which rely on imported parts and raw materials. Steel and aluminum — two essentials of carmaking — were hit with steep tariffs too.
Trump seemed to focus on the promised benefits while overlooking the bill his policies were handing automakers.
“They’ve come a long way. It’s amazing what tariffs will do for GM and what the [2024] election has done,” Trump said in late July, standing alongside General Motors CEO Mary Barra and other executives at a company proving ground in Michigan. “General Motors is doing fantastic … we’ve been very good to General Motors.”
GM’s own financial disclosures told a less triumphant story. The company reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission that tariffs could cost it as much as $3.5 billion in 2025. GM also pulled back on its EV manufacturing plans, though it continued to offer a dozen electrified models.
The final link in the chain was the war with Iran. The conflict disrupted oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, pushing Brent crude past the dreaded $100 a barrel. As gas prices climbed, more drivers began looking again at electric vehicles — the very market Detroit’s automakers had scaled back.
The shift is happening around much of the world. Ember, a clean-energy think tank, reported record EV sales this year in 49 countries, including Germany, New Zealand, Chile and Uruguay. The contrast with the United States is stark: U.S. EV sales fell about 31% in the first eight months of 2026, according to Reuters.
China, meanwhile, has made major strides in the global shift to electric vehicles. Its automakers are expanding into new markets, including Canada, where Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a deal with Chinese leader Xi Jinping earlier this year to open the market to Chinese EVs.
The American auto industry wanted an ally in Trump. Instead it got tariffs that raised costs, a weakened domestic EV supply and a future outlook clouded by uncertainty.
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