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White House Faces Uphill Battle to Stave Off Fall COVID-19 Surge, End to Free Test Kits, World Covid Stats

by Nathaniel Weixel The Hill The White House is rushing ahead to roll out a new COVID-19 booster shot campaign in early September, but is facing an uphill battle to ensure it is successful. The vaccines being used in the campaign are the first ones that have been manufactured to specifically target the subvariants of […]

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Major Sea-Level Rise from Melting Greenland Ice Cap ‘Now Inevitable’

  [Loss will contribute a minimum rise of 27cm regardless of what climate action is taken, scientists discover Meltwater flows from the ice sheet into the Baffin Bay near Pituffik in northern Greenland. Photograph: Kerem Yücel/AFP/Getty Images Damian Carrington Environment editor Guardian   Major sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice cap is […]

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WORLD VIEW: Iraq Gunfire, Ukraine Sniper, Migrants, Pakistan Floods a Global Warning, More

Today’s Headlines Heavy gunfire rocks Iraq’s Green Zone amid violent protests BAGHDAD (AP) — Supporters of an influential Iraqi Shiite cleric fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns into Iraq’s Green Zone as security forces returned fire…Read More Women race political clock, cross state lines for abortions DAYTON, OHIO (AP) — In the dim light of […]

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Jamaica NY Consulate General Will Lead West Indian American Day Carnival Parade

By Santana Salmon In culminating its official calendar of activities commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Jamaica’s Independence, the Consulate General of Jamaica in New York says that it will, for the first time in its history, lead fellow nationals under its official banner at the West Indian Day Carnival Parade, on Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway, on Labor […]

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Report Reveals ‘The Military Truth Behind the Cuban Medical Missions in Mexico

14ymedio, Madrid, August 26, 2022 — The characteristics of the last Cuban medical brigade imported by Mexico, which began to arrive in the last week of July, according to a new report, offer no doubt about the spurious interests behind the facade of humanitarian collaboration with which they have been sold to public opinion. “They […]

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North Trinidad Hit by Severe Flooding

by Sampson Nanton T&T Guardian   Several parts of northern Trinidad experienced some of the worst flash flooding seen in recent years yesterday, amid heavy and persistent rainfall that started just before noon. Major roadways and communities in Western Trinidad were among the worst hit, with the free flow of traffic prevented for over two […]

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Colombia and Venezuela Reestablish Diplomatic Relations

By Stefano Pozzebon Bogota (CNN) Colombia and Venezuela have reestablished diplomatic relations, in a tectonic shift in South American regional politics. Colombian ambassador Armando Benedetti met on Monday with Venezuelan authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. “At this hour I’m received by President Nicolas Maduro, to whom I present diplomatic papers […]

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Brazil: Illegal Exploitation of Indigenous Lands Tripled Under Bolsonaro-Report

By Marcia Reverdosa, Sahar Akbarzai and Camilo Rocha, CNN (CNN) Invasions and illegal extraction of natural resources in Brazil’s protected indigenous lands have tripled since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019, according to a report by Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) in Brazil. “This government favors the exploitation and private appropriation of Indigenous territories,” the […]

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Gay Murder: Brazil Charges German Diplomat for Husband’s Death–After He Leaves Country

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Brazilian state prosecutors on Monday pressed charges against a German diplomat accused of the murder of his Belgian husband and are investigating reports that he has left the country after a court released him from police custody. Uwe Herbert Hahn, who worked at the German consulate in Rio […]

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Guatemala Will ‘Always Support’ Taiwan- Foreign Minister

TAIPEI, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Bucaro said on Tuesday that the Central American country will “always support” Taiwan, after China conducted its largest-ever military drills around the self-ruled island earlier this month. Meeting Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei, Bucaro said that Guatemala and Taiwan were “like-minded […]

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