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PAHO Fighting Fungus In Latin America And Caribbean.

The Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections (GAFFI) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to improve the diagnosis and treatment of fungal diseases. The agreement, which formalizes years of successful collaboration between the two agencies to improve patient health, focuses on cooperation to decrease the impact of […]

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They’re Headed For Hong Kong: BVI Financial Team Going East To Drum Up Business.

The Government of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is has announced that Lorna Smith, the Deputy Premier and Minister for Financial Services, Labour, and Trade, will lead a 13-member delegation on a trade mission to Asia, one of the BVI’s most important business markets. The BVI stands at the forefront of international corporate structuring for […]

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Luis Abinader Re-elected With Large Majority In Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic voted yesterday in a general election amid severe concern regarding how the country, which occupies the eastern end of the island of Hispaniola, should act concerning the severe refugee situation in neighboring Haiti, which shares the island. Many Haitians already live, legally or illegally, in the Dominican Republic and there are many […]

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Iranian President Found Dead At Helicopter Crash Site On Foggy Mountain.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other officials were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran, state media said. Search crews found the wreckage Monday, a day after the helicopter crashed in bad weather near Varzaqan in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. The Iranian officials were returning […]

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Cuba’s Once Massive Sugar Industry Hits All-Time Low.

 “Without sugar, there’s no country,” the old Cuban saying goes. From the moment Spanish colonists first planted cane in Cuba in the 16th century, sugar has been etched into this island’s soul. For countless Africans brought here to cut it, sugar meant slavery and servitude. Later, it fuelled rebellion, when slaves wielded the machetes they […]

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New Efforts To Stop Kenyan Forces Coming To Haiti As Kenyan President Arrives In America.

As Port-au-Prince prepares to welcome the first contingent of the Multinational Security Support Mission led by Kenya any day now one political opponent of the initiative, Ekuru Aukot one of the leaders of the “Thirdway Alliance” Party, a small opposition party is again trying to take legal action to prevent the deployment of Kenya forces […]

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Big Changes Coming To Visa Credit Cards.

Visa is making major changes to how its credit and debt cards will soon be operating in the U.S., and it might that in the future people will be carrying less cards on their person. The most biggest  change will be the ability to carry one physical payment card—without a 16-digit account number—that’s connected can make […]

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Why Doesn’t United States Allow Better Sunscreens Like Europe?

Michael Scaturro May 7, 2024 When dermatologist Adewole “Ade” Adamson sees people spritzing sunscreen as if it’s cologne at the pool where he lives in Austin, Texas, he wants to intervene. “My wife says I shouldn’t,” he said, “even though most people rarely use enough sunscreen.” At issue is not just whether people are using […]

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Hotel Video From 2016 Shows Famous Rapper Beating Girlfriend.

A closed circuit TV recording from a hotel  has emerged appearing to show rap music performer and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs, also known as P. Diddy, attacking his then girlfriend singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura in a hotel hallway in 2016. The video, aired by CNN, has “surfaced” in the wake of allegations by Ms Ventura […]

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World’s Top Golfer Has Driving Problems, Destroys Policeman’s Trousers.

Scottie Scheffler had to warm up on the second day at the US PGA Championship–one of the most important tournaments of the year– by “stretching in a jail cell” after being arrested on Friday morning for a trafffic offense in which a pair of policeman’s trousers were ‘ruined beyond repair’. The incident occurred just before […]

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