The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a developing low pressure system far out in the Atlantic that could make its way to the Caribbean by next weekend and possibly form into the season’s next tropical depression or tropical storm. The National Hurricane Center’s 8 p.m. update showed a tropical wave over the far eastern tropical […]

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Washington, DC, 31 August 2023 (PAHO)- On the International Day for People of African Descent, the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, called for a greater “response to the health needs of those who are systematically left behind”. The Americas region is home to approximately 210 million people of African descent, […]

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Around 2,500 people have died in Haiti this year while 1,000 have been injured and nearly 970 have been kidnapped, according to a statement from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released this week. Snipers in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince alone were responsible for killing or  injuring nearly […]

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More than 100 schools across the United Kingdom have been ordered to close over fears that potentially dangerous lightweight concrete used when they were built between the 1950s and the mid-90s could lead to the buildings falling down. The crisis has left school administrators scrambling to find temporary accommodation and has forced many students to […]

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Las Vegas, the casino tourism mecca in the Nevada desert is seeing a wave of artificial intelligence (AI) robots replacing humans in tourism industry jobs. Check-in kiosks have replaced people at the front desk of hotels. Text-bots now make restaurant recommendations instead of a concierge. Robots can serve food, and behind the bar, machines are […]

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Authorities in the Indian capital city of  Delhi, are taking a variety of  steps to scare away monkeys from venues linked to the G20 summit including posting cardboard cutouts of large monkeys, and monkey impersonators. Life-size cut-outs of grey langur monkeys – which scare smaller monkeys – have been put up at various places and […]

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Chinese President Xi Jinping isn’t showing up in person at this week’s G20 summit in India, but a Chinese spokeswoman offered no explanation. Only recently Xi has been bigging himself and China up in an international leadership role at the BRICS summit in South Africa. Instead, Premier Li Qiang will represent China at the Sept. […]

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Thousands of people are stuck at a festival site in the Nevada desert after heavy rains swamped the area and created thick, ankle-deep mud which sticks to campers’ shoes and vehicle tires, making it impossible to drive. Campers have been told to stay put. Burning Man Festival-goers were told by authorities to shelter in place […]

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U.S. federal health regulators are proposing that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana and instead classify it as a Schedule III drug, putting it in a group with thereapeutic drugs rather than just classifying it as an illegal substance that has no known medical use. At the present time marijuana is legal in many […]

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It affects bananas and plantains from Ecuador to Florida. Chickens and turkeys from Chile to northern Europe. Liquid Natural Gas from the United States to Asia. And all kinds of consumer products that China sends to the West. The traffic jam that has been piling up on both sides of the Panama Canal is affecting […]

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