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Nicaragua: “We can’t sell, inherit, or mortgage the land,” lament Nicaraguans in the border area
Q Costa Rica
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August 29, 2025
Q24N — Andrea’s farm sits tucked near Nicaragua’s border, just a few miles from Costa Rica. It’s been in her family for over 20 years, a place she hoped to pass down to her kids someday. But now, her land belongs to the state, thanks to a new law...
Rockefeller Foundation Supports Discussion on Ethical Role of Governments, Businesses and Society in Addressing the Climate Emergency
The Rockefeller Foundation
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August 22, 2025
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA | August 22, 2025 ― The city of Bogotá, Colombia, hosted the South, Central American, and Caribbean Dialogue of the Ethical Global Stocktake (GST) on Thursday, August 21. As one of the four pillars of social mobilization leading...
U.S. Immigrant Population Falls for First Time in 60 Years, Pew Finds
[your]NEWS
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August 23, 2025
Pew Research Center says foreign-born residents dropped by 1.5 million in early 2025 as deportations and tighter policies take hold. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom The number of immigrants living in the United States has fallen for the first time in...
Katrina reshaped landscape, complexion, unity of New Orleans churches, leaders say
Baptist Press - Tennessee
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August 28, 2025
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The church doors would remain open, David Crosby decided after the levees failed New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina. Someone from the Midwest sent a huge generator to First Baptist Church of New Orleans, Crosby’s pastorate at the...
Joe Biden 'packed swing states with ONE MILLION illegal migrants in just two years'
GB News
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August 24, 2025
More than one million illegal migrants flooded into America's "swing states" in just two years under Joe Biden, a damning new report has found. Fresh data from the Pew Research Center has found that the US illegal migrant population surged to some...
Student Voices: Eagles Speak on Their Fall Semester!
The George-Anne
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August 22, 2025
New bus routes, icebreakers, unfamiliar faces, lakeside ducks, and that amazing, yet temporary, feeling of having “unlimited” money… While some students are readapting to their old habits back on campus, others are learning how to navigate their...
How US gun culture stacks up with the world
Yahoo News
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Minneapolis. Kansas City. Lewiston. Monterey Park. Orlando. Las Vegas. Newtown. Parkland. San Bernardino. Uvalde. Nashville. Louisville. Ubiquitous gun violence in the United States has left few places unscathed over the decades. Still, many...
Susan Collins calls Trump's latest budget move 'a clear violation of the law'
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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August 29, 2025
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is accusing the Trump administration of attempting to undermine Congress and the law in its latest attempt to claw back nearly $5 billion from foreign aid programs. The Trump administration is using what's known as...
Physiological febrile heat stress increases cytoadhesion through increased protein trafficking of Plasmodium falciparum surface proteins into the red blood cell
eLife
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Malaria remains one of the most devastating infectious diseases and is caused by unicellular eukaryotic parasites of the Plasmodium genus. Of the six species that infect humans, Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the vast majority of...
Pew: US immigrant population drops for 1st time in six decades
The Santa Clarita Valley Signal - California
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August 22, 2025
By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer The foreign-born population in the United States declined by nearly 1.5 million between January and June 2025, according to an analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center released on Thursday. The figure...
A Katrina Odyssey: A Reporter Recounts Devastation, Confusion, Moments of Grace
KMVU FOX26 - Oregon
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Interstate-10 in Slidell, La., a few hours after Katrina had passed. Reporter James Varney (right) accompanied a boat owner trying to check on his house close to Lake Pontchartrain. (Photo by David Grunfeld, Courtesy of Nola.com) NEW ORLEANS, La....
Alexey Molchanov’s 136m CWT World Record Dive
Deeper Blue
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August 23, 2025
Follow elite freediver Alexey Molchanov as he descends to 136m in the constant-weight (CWT) discipline—an ascent that redefined human limits at the 2023 freediving championship in Roatán, Honduras. The video captures his steady pre-dive ritual:...
The Digital Shift: Redefining Insurance with Smarter Payments
Banking Dive
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Nicaragua is Nicolás Maduro’s lifeline
Q Costa Rica
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August 29, 2025
Q24N — Peruvian journalist, writer, journalist, and television personality, Jaime Bayly claims that Nicolás Maduro is preparing to flee to Nicaragua with his family and sending gold bars, euros, and dollars on the presidential plane that recently...
Why are the BRICS countries not condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza?
LINKS
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August 27, 2025
First published at CADTM. Slightly edited. The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which have admitted five more states (Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran), met in Rio de Janeiro on 6 and 7...
Rollins ramps up New World screwworm protection efforts
High Plains Journal - Kansas
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August 29, 2025
If you started ranching within the last five decades, it’s unlikely that you’ve seen a case of New World screwworm because the deadly parasite was largely eradicated from the United States in 1966 and has rarely been seen since. However, cases of...
The Quad: Lee Roberts’ Long Game
The Assembly - North Carolina
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The first interview I had with UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee Roberts came a few days after the “interim” was scratched off his title last August. Sitting in his South Building office on a sweltering summer afternoon, Roberts and I covered a lot...
Chalpain Norris Burkes: Don't judge a pastor's books by their covers
The Union - California
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“Be careful who you allow in your library,” was the advice given me years ago by my pastor/dad. “Parishioners may judge you by your book titles,” he warned. I followed his pastoral advice for years — until I became a columnist. Now, for the past...
AM Best Upgrades Credit Ratings of Reaseguradora Delta, S.A. and Reaseguradora Delta, C.A.
InsuranceNewsNet - Pennsylvania
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August 28, 2025
MEXICO CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A- (Excellent) from B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a-” (Excellent) from “bbb+” (Good) of Reaseguradora Delta, S.A. (Delta Panama) (Panama...
Arbitrating energy disputes in Latin America
Global Arbitration Review
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August 26, 2025
Few sectors reflect Latin America’s current challenges and ambitions as clearly as energy. Across the region, states and stakeholders are working to attract investment, and expand capacity and access, leveraging capital and social resources, all...