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Officials step up plans to combat flesh-eating screwworm
The Weather Network
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June 19, 2025
Female screwworm flies lay their eggs in open wounds, scrapes, or insect bites on people and animals. When the eggs hatch, the larvae burrow into the flesh, feeding on living tissue and potentially causing serious wounds, infections, and even...
America: The Great Experiment
St. Thomas Source
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June 19, 2025
America is not just a country, but a dynamic new frontier, a unique cultural, political, social, and psychological experiment. Unlike any other, this experiment redefines ancient land as a new nation. The United States operates with a distinctive...
Thousands of undocumented migrants work as construction workers in Yucatán
The Yucatan Times
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June 19, 2025
2 Thousands of undocumented Central and South American migrants work as construction workers in Yucatán under extremely vulnerable conditions, in a context where the construction sector registered a decrease of 17,477 formal workers from 2024 to...
The Yankees Reliever Confidence Index: June Edition
Pinstripe Alley - New York
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June 19, 2025
Since closer Luke Weaver landed on the IL early this month with a hamstring injury, the Yankees’ bullpen has undergone a transformation. Devin Williams — essentially by default — re-assumed the closer’s role, a job he lost after a dreadful start...
Spanish-Language Reporter Could Be Deported
Journal-isms
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June 19, 2025
Journo Streams Own Arrest Near ‘No Kings’ Protest “Rethink Some Word Choices to Be More Hearable’ Chauncey Bailey Killer Set Free After 18 Years Naba’a (Richard) Muhammad Dies, Edited Final Call Comics, Graphic Novels Hosting Religious Diversity...
Civil Society Is Holding the Line. Will Washington Notice?
The Globe Post - Washington D.C.
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June 17, 2025
As I step into the role of Secretary General at CIVICUS, the world’s preeminent civil society alliance, I do so at a moment of global reckoning. From Gaza to Sudan, Myanmar to Ukraine, we are witnessing not just a crisis of conflict, but a crisis...
The president who hates his country
Renew America
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By Joan Swirsky May 3, 2009 In the last century, the impassioned words and actions of patriots like Winston Churchill — along with America's heroic help and sacrifice — saved Europe. The eloquence and actions of "I've been to the mountaintop"...
Flesh-Eating ‘Screwworm’ Parasites Are Headed to the U.S.
Scientific American
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June 17, 2025
Flesh-Eating ‘Screwworm’ Parasites Are Headed to the U.S. Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped containment By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Screwworm...
North and South America have always been interdependent
The Spectator
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June 17, 2025
In 1797, following a written plea for troops to counter an incursion by an American Revolutionary War veteran into Louisiana, Manuel Godoy, minister to the Spanish crown, made a note in the margin: No es posible poner puertas al campo (‘It is not...
Trump is propelling the US into authoritarianism
The Guardian
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June 19, 2025
It reads like a checklist of milestones on the road to autocracy. A succession of opposition politicians, including Alex Padilla, a US senator, are handcuffed and arrested by heavy-handed law enforcement for little more than questioning authority...
Migrant Crossings into Canada Surge as US Deportation Threats Grow
The Walrus
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June 18, 2025
Nestor and José had just stepped off the Greyhound bus from New York City, and like other migrants gathering at the Sunoco station just off Interstate 87 in Plattsburgh, the two Venezuelan friends were desperate for a taxi ride to Canada. They...
Falklands/Malvinas dispute must be resolved through peaceful and negotiated means, reiterates UN C24
MercoPress
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Thursday, June 19th 2025 - 09:02 UTC Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Gerardo Werthein is a very close confident and advisor of President Javier Milei The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization...
With Trump focused on immigration, Ukrainian immigrants in Utah also face an uncertain future
KSL - Utah
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LINDON — Latino immigrants in Utah under immigration initiatives launched by President Joe Biden aren't alone in feeling uncertain about their future in the United States. Ukrainian immigrants in Utah and their advocates say refugees from the...
Beyond the International Criminal Court: Duterte’s Pandemic Playbook for Authoritarian Rule
The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
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By Salvador Santino Regilme The COVID-19 pandemic was not just a public health crisis—it was a political litmus test. In the Philippines, it became a catalyst for authoritarian consolidation. Rather than leading with competence and compassion,...
Area meeting to be held on New World Screwworm threat
The Graham Leader - Texas
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Those in Young County and surrounding areas have the opportunity to learn more about the looming New World Screwworm threat and measures they can take if the threat reaches the United States. Texas Farm Bureau District 3 Director Greg Buenger will...
UP Physicists Visualize Evolution of Global Values Over Four Decades
Philippines Graphic
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June 18, 2025
By: Eunice Jean C. Patron Scientists from the University of the Philippines – Diliman College of Science’s National Institute of Physics (UPD-CS NIP) have generated culture maps using data from the Integrated Values Survey (IVS). Using a method...
Equinox Gold and Calibre Mining Complete Business Combination
The Kingston Whig-Standard
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June 17, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Newsfile Article content Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – June 17, 2025) – Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX) (NYSE American: EQX) (“Equinox Gold”) and Calibre Mining Corp. (TSX: CXB) (OTCQX: CXBMF) (“Calibre”) are...
Chile Poetry Collective Turns Bomb Sites into Literal Falling Literature
LatinAmerican Post
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June 17, 2025
A Chilean art trio is rewriting the memory of air raids: helicopters that once strafed civilians now shower cities with tens of thousands of poems. From Santiago to Rotterdam, the collective Casagrande persuades residents to look up and see...
Tropics Talk: Atlantic stays quiet while a hurricane threatens southern Mexico
Gulf Coast News - Florida
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June 17, 2025
Tropics Talk: Atlantic stays quiet while a hurricane threatens southern Mexico While the Atlantic has been very quiet so far this month, the eastern Pacific has been very active, with the fifth storm of the season, Erick, set to strike Mexico as a...
Governments’ Démarche against the ECtHR: Room for Discussion or Threats to Judicial Integrity
EJIL: Talk!
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June 16, 2025
Recently, the leaders of nine European states, out of 46 Council of Europe members, issued a joint statement calling for a fundamental revision of the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) on immigration issues....