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Beyond the Bombs: The Costa Rican Perspective on the Israel-Iran Conflict
Costa Rica News
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July 12, 2025
A few days ago, we spoke with the Costa Rican Ambassador to the State of Israel, Antonio López Escarré, who, amidst the growing tension between Israel and Iran, has been the voice of Costa Rica. READ MORE Today He is at the epicenter of the...
New UN brief prompts growing global action against transnational repression
International Service for Human Rights
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July 11, 2025
On 30 June 2025, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) launched its first–ever brief on transnational repression (TNR) at a side event during the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). The event brought...
Australian Unicorns and Soonicorns: Startups Set to Dominate 2025
TechNews180
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June 22, 2025
The birth of the Australian startup ecosystem is truly entering an age of gradual momentum, from thousands active startups and rising activity in sectors such as fintech, climate tech, AI, and creator tools. In 2024 alone, Aussie startups have...
Lawler to Haitians facing deportation: Get status straightened out now
The Journal News - New York
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For hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. and thousands in Rockland, permission to stay in the U.S. ends this fall. "The situation on the ground (in Haiti) is too dangerous, not just for Americans but for Haitians," said Lawler, noting...
The Year Arms Contractors Stopped Sponsoring Pride
Inkstick Media
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July 10, 2025
This year, corporations across the country have quietly pulled their sponsorship from local pride parades. Companies that once faced criticism for surface-level allyship — changing their logos to rainbow colors during Pride month, for instance —...
Forbes includes Peru's Lenin Tamayo, Creator of Quechua Pop, in its Under 30 list
Andina
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July 11, 2025
Among the more than 150 selected from across the region, Peruvian Lenin Tamayo stands out. Tamayo is the creator of Q'Pop (Quechua Pop), an innovative genre that fuses Andean rhythms, Quechua, and K-pop. He is also the only Quechua artist featured...
U.S.A. shuts down Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico
DGR News
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July 9, 2025: Tuesday (July 8, 2025), Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) reported a new case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Ixhuatlan de Madero, Veracruz in Mexico, which is approximately 160 miles...
US Prepares to Combat New World Screwworm Outbreak Using Sterile Flies
Times News Global
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July 11, 2025
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is mobilizing to combat an outbreak of New World screwworms, a flesh-eating insect threatening livestock health along the southwestern border. This initiative involves aerial dispersal of sterilized flies to...
Immigration enforcement should be proportional
Florida Catholic
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ORLANDO | So 40 miles due east from Everglades City and 55 miles due west from downtown Miami lies a center of controversy surrounding the complicated issue of immigration. “Alligator Alcatraz,” as it has become known, is in Ochopee, Florida,...
Vulgarity of Money
Dissident Voice
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July 10, 2025
Several times, the question arose of whether Menachem Begin saw any comparison between the struggle of the Palestinians and the Jews’ War of Independence. Once, Mike Wallace, the well-known American interviewer asked him directly, “Mr. Prime...
International demand for pineapple juice grows
Fresh Plaza
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July 10, 2025
Demand for pineapple juice and the growth of markets such as Israel and Dubai are boosting Costa Rican exports, despite production limitations due to weather conditions. According to Álvaro Figueroa, president of the Tropicales del Valle company,...
Crowley Announces First-Ever Shipping Route Between US Northeast and Central America
Offshore Source - Florida
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Crowley, an international leader in logistics, marine and energy solutions, has announced a significant expansion of ocean shipping services with its first-ever route between the US Northeast and Central America. Utilizing Crowley's new,...
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...
America, ‘nation of immigrants,’ turns on immigrants: A conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Real News Network
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July 9, 2025
For generations, the Statue of Liberty has stood as a beacon representing the promise of America as a land of freedom and opportunity for immigrants from all over the world. But in 2025, as immigrant communities are being vilified and terrorized...
Delegation for 7.8.25: Oh, snap! — big, beautiful — transients — LEOs — ‘Alcatraz’
Florida Politics
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July 8, 2025
Snapper season oversight Florida sets the dates for red snapper season in the Gulf of Mexico, but the federal government dictates when Atlantic fishermen can reel in their catch. Members of the Florida congressional delegation want to revisit...
Vijay Prashad: Patents of a Parasitical North
Consortium News
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July 7, 2025
Global South countries are trapped in Global North-dominated patents and licensing fees that are stripping them of wealth and stunting their development. (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute...
2025 American Academy of Nursing Fellows to include 16 Emory inductees
Emory University
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July 8, 2025
The American Academy of Nursing will induct 16 members of the Emory community into its 2025 Class of Fellows. The Emory inductees – faculty, alumni and administrators from the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public...
Nearly half of tree species in Mexico and Central America threatened with extinction
Mongabay
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July 9, 2025
Of the more than 4,000 known tree species found only in Mesoamerica, nearly half are threatened with extinction, according a new assessment. Agriculture emerges as the primary threat across the region from both small- and large-scale farming,...
A day at ‘the Beth’ and Iran déjà vu
New Jersey Jewish News
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The last time I was under the red tile roofs of Newark Beth Israel Hospital was in the fall of 1980. Folks familiar with “the Beth,” as it is known, will recall that it has been one of the key community institutions of the Weequahic section of...
Trump's job cuts 'degrade' weather services as Florida hurricane predictions set back 'decades'
Irish Star
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July 9, 2025
02:36 ET, 09 Jul 2025 Severe staffing deficits as a result of the Donald Trump administration's cuts to federal agencies are putting significant pressure on the operations of the National Weather Service (NWS) and other federal weather...