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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...
Study reveals surge in illegal arachnid trade via Facebook in Philippines
Mongabay
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June 30, 2025
New research by wildlife trade watchdog TRAFFIC reveals a thriving online trade in live tarantulas and scorpions in the Philippines, with more than 16,000 arachnids found offered for sale on Facebook in 2020 and 2022. Most traded species are...
What is BRICS and why does it matter?
Deutsche Welle
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July 3, 2025
Leaders of the world's fast-growing BRICS economies gather in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, promising to strengthen trade and technology exchange within the bloc in the shadow of US President Donald Trump's tariff threat. Brazilian President Luiz...
From Underdogs To Debutants: Nations Set For Their First-Ever Potential FIFA World Cup 2026 Appearance
News24
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June 13, 2025
Just a year to go before the kick-off of FIFA World Cup 2026 and the qualification scenario is heating up across the globe. The full list of the 48 participating nations is yet to be ratified but several teams have already qualified in what will...
Longtime employee of Homestake and SURF takes to the skies in Honor Flight
Tri State Livestock News - South Dakota
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July 2, 2025
Ricky Allen, a Lead, South Dakota resident who works at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), is among those who took part in the recent Midwest Honor Flight for veterans. Article by Ollie Langley Peterson Lead, SD (July 2, 2025) —...
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...
Spotlighting US export controls amid BIS crackdown on semiconductors in China
Global Investigations Review
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June 30, 2025
The United States asserts jurisdiction over US origin products and technology anywhere in the world regardless of whether a US person is involved in a transaction. The principal distinction between US sanctions and US export controls is that US...
Why Central America is Central to Hansae’s Multi-Country Manufacturing Strategy
Sourcing Journal - New York
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July 11, 2025
The Western Hemisphere is heating up as a sourcing destination, as American companies seek out production closer to home. Nearshoring ticks numerous boxes for brands. Firstly, it shortens lead times, enabling quicker replenishment and allowing for...
US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning far beyond Israel's strikes on Tehran
Akron Legal News
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JEFFREY FIELDS USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Published: July 1, 2025 (THE CONVERSATION) Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded...
2025 Medical Professionals: Physicians to Women
The Roanoker - Virginia
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July 1, 2025
A special advertising section 2025 Medical Professional Profiles: Physicians to Women Dr. Jamie Buck Doctor Jamie Buck joined Physicians to Women in 2012. She was born in Pearisburg, Virginia. Dr. Buck received her Bachelor of Science in Biology...
Trump’s Justice Department wants to denaturalize citizens. Can he do that?
The Independent
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July 1, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
The Miami Political Asylum Hearing for Cuban Oscar Casanella Continues Without a Verdict
14ymedio
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July 1, 2025
The defense will submit its briefs for the conclusion of the summary on July 11. The hearing lasted almost seven hours, from 8:30 in the morning / Courtesy 14ymedio, Miami, June 24, 2025 — Cuban scientist Oscar Casanella, a member of the San...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Database’ is here—and it’s darker than you think
Raw Story
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June 28, 2025
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting the...
Big Brother Trump Is Watching You
Common Dreams
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June 28, 2025
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting the...
Big Brother Trump is already watching you
AlterNet
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June 28, 2025
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting 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...