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Mexico Missing Students: Former Top Official Arrested Over Probe

Canada By Leo Sands BBC News   Mexico’s former attorney general has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Jesús Murillo Karam, who led an inquiry into the atrocity, has been charged with forced disappearance, torture and the obstruction of justice. The students vanished while travelling by bus through the […]

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Dried Up: Texas Cattle Industry Faces Crisis from Historic Drought

by Saul Elbein The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on the states most affected — as well as the solutions Americans are embracing. AUSTIN, Texas — The megadrought in […]

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Russian Oligarchs: Where Do They Hide Their ‘Dark Money’? BVI for Starters

Image source, Alamy The Axioma, a £57m superyacht belonging to a sanctioned oligarch, was seized in Gibraltar For decades, Russian oligarchs have moved billions of dollars of ill-gotten money abroad – and have made it extremely hard to trace. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, countries around the world have been using sanctions and new laws […]

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IICA and Taiwanese Technical Mission Expose Farmers to Proper Composting Methods

 BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, August 19, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), St. Kitts and Nevis office, and the Technical Mission of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to Saint Kitts and Nevis have collaborated to assist farmers in creating high quality compost in an effort to reduce fertiliser cost. Farmers in […]

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Has the US Forgotten About Covid? It Hasn’t Gone Away

As Americans go about their daily lives, severely affected Covid patients are wondering if others are moving too quickly from the worst days of the pandemic A mobile Covid test site is seen in New York City. Photograph: Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Maya Yang in New York GUARDIAN Despite signs that indicate the latest […]

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UNIA Chief Calls for Tariffs on Foreigners From Colonial Powers

By Santana Salmon CNW- Steven Golding, the president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), is lobbying the Holness administration to pursue reparation by levying a special tax on foreigners from countries with a background of trading in chattel slavery. He made the remarks after a floral tribute to National Hero Marcus Garvey at National […]

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Reuters World News: N. Korea Tensions with S.Korea, Russian Base Explosion, Trump Business Chief Pleads Guilty, More

The Reuters Daily Briefing Friday, August 19, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. North Korea tells South Korea’s president to ‘shut his mouth’, China sentences tycoon Xiao Jianhua to 13 years, Trump business chief pleads guilty and Ryan Cohen’s Bed Bath u-turn triggers meme stock investor ire Today’s biggest stories […]

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Haiti sinking deeper into catastrophe: Who will save it?

By Sir Ronald Sanders   (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States.   He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto)   Haiti has never been far from wide-scale […]

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PAHO Seeks to Strengthen Preparedness, Response to Future Pandemics in Region

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, CMC – Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa Etienne on Wednesday called for countries in the region to increase investment in epidemic and pandemic preparedness, because the question is not if there will be a new pandemic, but when. She was speaking at a workshop on preparedness and […]

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