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This Colorful Multi-Sensory Installation Invites You To Imagine a Better Future
My Modern Met - California
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June 29, 2025
London-based artist Pierre-Christophe Gam is the founder of Toguna World, a digital lab and creative think tank where art and technology converge to imagine new futures. Drawing on his rich cultural heritage that spans Cameroon, Chad, Egypt, and...
Kinama :alcohol, a poison that destroys the youth and families of the camp
Sos Médias Burundi
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SOS Médias Burundi, Muyinga, July 4, 2025 – At the Kinama refugee camp, in the district of Gasorwe, Muyinga province, in northeastern Burundi, excessive alcohol consumption is a cause for concern. For many young Congolese refugees, alcohol has...
African duo ordained after completing theology studies at Bomana
The National
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TWO African religious men sent to Papua New Guinea to study at the Catholic Theological Institute (CTI) in Port Moresby’s Bomana were ordained priests on Friday. Under the order of the Society of Montfort Missionaries (SMM), they were sent by...
Syracuse celebrates World Refugee Day: ‘Lean into love’ (27 photos)
Syracuse.com - New York
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June 28, 2025
Syracuse, N.Y. – An afternoon highlighting the many cultures and homelands of the city’s resettled refugees filled the parking lot and fields of Grant Middle School on Syracuse’s North Side on Saturday. The World Refugee Day celebration included...
SIUE welcomes international students amidst concerns over visa uncertainty
Alestle - Illinois
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SIUE is welcoming a host of international students hailing from different countries and continents despite the U.S. government’s crackdown on foreign visas. Because of these revocations, some students are uncertain about their educational future...
Trump's 'unconstitutional' new travel ban goes into effect
KHQ - Washington State
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Alameda, CA (Prism) The travel restrictions on mostly African and Middle Eastern countries began Monday, after mass anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles People from 12 primarily African and Middle Eastern countries, including family members of...
Russia sees Africa as great coal shipments market
MENAFN
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July 9, 2025
(MENAFN) Russia sees Africa as a promising market for its coal exports, potentially becoming the third-largest destination after China and India, according to Deputy Energy Minister Dmitry Islamov in a TASS interview. With Africa’s population...
New archpriest of St. Mary Major has inspiring background
Aleteia
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July 5, 2025
The Lithuanian has served in various roles, from Vatican diplomacy to the Secretariat of State, and has effectively been running St. Mary Major since 2021. Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas has succeeded Cardinal Stanisław Ryłko as archpriest of the...
Home Office age errors put hundreds of asylum-seeking children ‘at risk of abuse’
The i paper
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July 9, 2025
The Home Office wrongly placed hundreds of lone child asylum seekers in adult asylum accommodation such as hotels last year before they were later found to be under 18, The i Paper can reveal. At least 678 child asylum seekers were initially...
Peace is everything
The Point
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If we lose peace, we lose everything. Look around us at our brothers and sisters in nations once full of promise, now broken by the scourge of war, political strife, and lawlessness. Look at the shattered streets of Liberia, the blood-soaked soils...
How 2025 became Glastonbury’s most political year yet
Dazed & Confused
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June 30, 2025
Maybe a year of historically bad approval ratings has already thickened his skin, but it would be nice to believe that hearing thousands of people chant “fuck Keir Starmer”, during Kneecap’s Glastonbury set, hurt the Prime Minister’s feelings. It...
Unlawful issuance of Gambian ID Cards abroad is electoral fraud in preparation for 2026
The Standard Gambia
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July 9, 2025
- Advertisement - By Ndey Jobarteh Interior Minister Abdoulie Sanyang has now confirmed that after the controversial pilot in Mauritania, the Government plans to dispatch more missions to Gabon, Congo, and Togo to issue Gambian National Identity...
Poverty & extremism
Dawn
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July 12, 2025
“As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.” — Nelson Mandela POVERTY is frequently cited as a cause of growing extremism, but proving it is not as easy as portrayed. While Pakistan’s...
Q-Music: Your Pride 2025 Playlist
Out South Florida
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Are you wondering what to listen to during Pride Month? Don’t worry, there is plenty of great music by LGBTQ artists to provide a soundtrack for the season. In 2016, when Tim Kaine was Hillary Clinton’s running mate, he revealed in a New York...
New Orleans residents pay homage to enslaved African ancestors
WWNO - Louisiana
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July 8, 2025
The Ashé Cultural Arts Center held a gathering at Congo Square and led a procession through Tremé Saturday morning (July 5) on the 25th anniversary of their MAAFA Commemoration, paying homage to enslaved ancestors. The event is a yearly...
Dissident Hunters
The Verge
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July 10, 2025
On a balmy night in October 2019, the defector rode his bike home. He’d just finished a long shift helping waiters serve yogurt-smothered kabobs at a restaurant in Yalova, a seaside town an hour from Istanbul, Turkey. By this time of night, many...
Shirley Colena Lambert Hutchens
Wilkes Journal-Patriot - North Carolina
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Shirley Colena Lambert Hutchens, 87, of Wilkesboro passed away Saturday, July 5, 2025, at her home. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 10, 2025, at Congo Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. Lynn Lambert and Pastor Luke Pyles...
Il business del genocidio
Strategic Culture
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July 11, 2025
È stato pubblicato dall’ONU il rapporto “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide”, firmato dall’inviata Francesca Albanese, che descrive la particolare connessione tra diversi settori del mondo imprenditoriale multinazionale e le...
State's appeal leads to life imprisonment for Facebook rapist
Weekend Argus
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July 12, 2025
A convicted rapist who lured his Facebook victims with the promise of employment before raping them at knife-point recently had his 15-year sentence escalated to life imprisonment. Philani Ndwandwe was sentenced in the Durban High Court after the...
I stopped the war between India and Pakistan by threatening to cancel all trade agreements : Trump
Sanatan Prabhat
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June 29, 2025
Donald Trump claims again Washington (USA) – “There could have been a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. We stopped it. We did a great job. I don’t know if there has ever been a President who has done such a great job ?” Claiming that, US...