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China sets out plans for network of lunar research stations by 2050
Global Construction Review
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September 9, 2024
Chinese officials have revealed more details of its plan to build an International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) on the Moon. The aim is to build a base near the satellite’s south pole at the centre of a 100km-radius zone of investigation. The...
The expansion of Russia in Central America: Nicaragua and the castling in Parlacen
La Prensa
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September 24, 2024
On September 11, 2024, a group of seventy-six deputies from the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) requested that the Russian Federation, through the State Duma, be admitted as a permanent observer to the subregional body. During the next...
“They Never Broke Me,” States Former Nicaraguan Cop
Havana Times
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September 15, 2024
who spent five years as a political prisoner Former Nicaraguan policeman Fanor Alejandro Ramos in Guatemala City, speaking with his lawyers via videocall, a week after his September 5th release and banishment to Guatemala. Photo: David Toro / EFE...
At a Conference in Nepal, Indigenous-Led Research and Education Will Take Center Stage
State of the Planet
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September 13, 2024
The second International Conference on Indigenous-led Research and Education will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 29 and 30, 2024. With its focus on climate change and other key issues in sustainable development and Indigenous rights, the...
Dry-running hydrogen compressors’ performance overhauled
Engineering News
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A plant in South Africa, which was losing up to 20% of output owing to frequent downtime over more than ten years, experienced a turnaround in performance owing to a range of solutions from US-based, global reciprocating compressor solutions firm...
‘Joy on kids’ faces’: Pennsylvania College of Technology students provide oral care to children in Dominican Republic
Williamsport Sun-Gazette - Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania College of Technology dental hygiene students explored a new world of dental care during a summer visit to the Dominican Republic, where they treated more than 250 children in four villages. “I’ve always wanted to travel, so why not...
How Mexico’s ‘Dolphin Program’ is inspiring scientists from around the world
Mexico News Daily
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September 12, 2024
What was once a small program allowing Mexican undergrads and graduate students to do extra research during summer vacation has blossomed in ways its founders never dreamed of. The official name of the program is the Inter-Institutional Program...
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MJ Crowley, retired news research library manager at The Inquirer, Daily News, and Star-Ledger, has died at 80
The Philadelphia Inquirer - Pennsylvania
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MJ Crowley, 80, of Doylestown, retired news research library manager at The Inquirer and Daily News, and the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., died Friday, Sept. 6, of cancer at her home. Organized, collegial, and a stickler for details, Ms. Crowley...
Over 2,100 murders ‘tip of a very big iceberg' of threats to environmentalists: Researcher
Yeni Safak
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The killings of over 2,100 land and environmental defenders over the past decade is just “the tip of a very, very big iceberg,” according to the lead author of a new report documenting violence against activists around the world. Global Witness,...
Dora María Téllez: ‘We must act for Nicaragua once more’
El País
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September 14, 2024
In 1973, at 20 years old, Dora María Téllez quit medical school to join the armed struggle against the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship. Three years later, she was enrolled in guerilla combat and medic training in Cuba. Riding the wave of revolution...
Cuban diplomacy chief congratulates Nicaragua’s new Foreign Minister
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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September 6, 2024
“We congratulate Valdrack Jaenstchke on his appointment as Foreign Minister of Nicaragua,” the head of Cuban diplomacy wrote on X. Likewise, the Cuban diplomat reaffirmed “Cuba’s commitment to continue strengthening the historic bilateral...
Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua deports group of foreign priests and nuns
Catholic News Agency
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September 4, 2024
Lima Newsroom, Sep 4, 2024 / 17:16 pm Lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina has reported that the dictatorship in Nicaragua of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has deported a group of foreign priests and...
South of the Border: Efforts ramp up to stop screwworm short of the U.S.
Kilgore News Herald - Texas
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It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from a low-flying airplane. Seeing a plane in those days was odd. Seeing one that low was even more unusual. But the kicker...
Malawi and Colombia explore higher education collaboration
Maravi Express
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July 5, 2025
Kabwila withAmbassador Mina-Rojas * Colombia has strong commitment to international relations, particularly in education—Ambassador Mina-Rojas * Exchange programs for staff and students include in research, postgraduate training, and youth skills...
Pope Francis prays Mary will protect persecuted Christians in Nicaragua
The Catholic Register
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As the Catholic Church and Christians at large experience intense persecution in Nicaragua, Pope Francis expressed encouragement and support to the people living under the country's authoritarian regime. "To the beloved people of Nicaragua: I...
Report: Russia Running Spy Center in Nicaraguan Military Base
Breitbart
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August 27, 2024
The Nicaraguan newspaper Confidencial reported on Sunday that Russia established a spy center in one of Nicaragua’s military bases under the auspices of the country’s communist regime. Confidencial, citing unnamed sources in the Nicaraguan...
Dictatorship in Nicaragua eliminates priests’ retirement fund
Catholic News Agency
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August 28, 2024
Lima Newsroom, Aug 28, 2024 / 16:23 pm The Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua has eliminated and confiscated a retirement fund for aging Catholic priests, which it had previously frozen a year ago, in yet another move to undermine the Catholic...
Pope urges Nicaraguans to renew hope in Jesus
Union of Catholic Asian News
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August 27, 2024
As the Catholic Church and Christians at large experience intense persecution in Nicaragua, Pope Francis expressed encouragement and support to the people living under the country's authoritarian regime. "To the beloved people of Nicaragua: I...
Is Nicaragua’s Dictatorship Nearing Its End?
Foreign Policy
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This summer marks the 45th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Revolution, when the guerilla forces of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) overthrew the Somoza dictatorship, the U.S.-backed dynasty that had ruled the country for more than 40...
Exiled Nicaraguans Express Solidarity with Venezuelans
Havana Times
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September 3, 2024
Venezuelans participate in a demonstration against the results of the elections held in their country on July 28, on the esplanade of the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City. EFE | Confidencial “We reject the repression directed against...