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We don’t need to talk about Kevin
The Spectator Australia
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July 2, 2025
‘The United States,’ opined former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd back in early 2021, ‘has been run by a village idiot’. Not much room for doubt, then, about the esteem Mr Rudd – who is now Australia’s ambassador to the USA – holds President...
Artist Noah Davis left us way too soon
Easy Reader News - California
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July 3, 2025
Ephemeral and timeless Paintings by Noah Davis at the Hammer Museum in Westwood by Bondo Wyszpolski I was beginning to feel guilty. I’d go to the Hammer Museum in Westwood and see much-ballyhooed exhibitions like “Breath(e)” and “Alice Coltrane,...
Lula Calls for New Financing Model to Tackle Sustainable Development and Climate Crisis
teleSUR
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Brazilian Prsident Lula da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, July 4, 2025. Photo: EFE July 4, 2025 Hour: 1:37 pm On Friday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva urged the creation of a new financing model to address sustainable development challenges and the...
New On Paramount+ July 2025: (Now With Showtime, Too!)
Decider
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July 4, 2025
The Paramount+ schedule for July 2025 releases has premiering original and exclusive titles like Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado and Dexter: Resurrection slated for arrival. Other Paramount+ highlights for this month include additional...
Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa is affected
The Conversation
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July 2, 2025
A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world’s people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...
What Does It Mean to Build a Country That Was Never Meant for You?
The Good Men Project - California
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June 30, 2025
By Eric Morrison-Smith and Gustavo Lopez As of June 2025, ICE agents are storming California farms, mom-and-pop restaurants, and Home Depot parking lots — chasing undocumented workers through blueberry fields in chaotic mass sweeps to meet federal...
'Stupendous Stockholm!'
Graphic
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July 4, 2025
Brig. Gen. Dan Frimpong (Rtd) Opinion Jul - 04 - 2025 , 14:46 6 minutes read The journey from Copenhagen, Denmark to Stockholm, Sweden was a nine-hour drive. Denmark is separated from Sweden by the Norwegian Sea. In a mind-blowing piece of...
On recent heatwave in Africa!
The Point
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Scientists from World Weather Attribution, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and Climate Central found that climate change had also doubled the number of heatwaves in the world. The research also identified 67 extreme heat events that...
Intrigues, Interstate Rivalry Undermine Actualisation of Single African Air Transport Market
This Day
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July 4, 2025
Chinedu Eze The plan to expand African air travel market is currently being hindered by intrigues and inter-state rivalry by countries that do not want the actualisation of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM). These countries, it was...
Five Below-the-Line Talents to Track in Costa Rica
Variety
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July 2, 2025
Costa Rica’s most prized assets – aside from its unparalleled locations – are its highly skilled crews, known for their depth of experience, strong work ethic and bilingual skills. Honed through years of on-set experience – paired with formal...
Better than Sadiki: Sunderland eyeing club-record move for £43m "monster"
Football FanCast
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July 4, 2025
Sunderland are the early big spenders out of all the newly promoted teams heading up to the Premier League. Leeds have secured three new buys in the form of Lukas Nmecha, Jaka Bijol, and Sebastiaan Bornauw, but the Whites' promising business has...
AITB DG Signs Institutional Performance Contract
Liberian Observer
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The Director General of the Agricultural and Industrial Training Bureau (AITB), Abraham Billy, has signed the Performance Management and Compliance System (PMCS) Presidential Contracts—a governance instrument that is meant to drive performance and...
Nobel for Peace: the deserving and the undeserving
The Financial Express Bangladesh
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Let's begin with a truth, harsh though it may sound. Of late, in fact in the past many years, a considerable degree of controversy has come to be associated with the selection process relating to the probable winners of the Nobel Peace Prize....
S.F. Pride 2025: Friday — Cumbiatón is Pride en español
Mission Local - California
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June 28, 2025
You did it! You helped us hit and surpass our $85,000 fundraising goal for June. Thank you for your support. The Mission Local team is on the ground across San Francisco, capturing the moments that define Pride — from the quiet preparation to the...
World affairs upsetting, but I wish to remain informed
George Herald
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It's a privilege to simply scroll past these atrocities that others can't escape. OPINION - Last week Wednesday, I received an email encouraging me to sign a petition for Starlink, a satellite-based internet service, promising broadband internet...
Most African slaves brought to Saint Lucia were from Nigeria, says Alvina Reynolds
The Cable
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June 30, 2025
Alvina Reynolds, president of the Saint Lucian senate, says historical records show that most of the African slaves brought to the island during the transatlantic slave trade were from Nigeria. Reynolds referenced a British census conducted in...
A Historical Look at US Foreign Interventions and the State-Sponsored Terrorism Debate.
ThyBlackMan
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July 2, 2025
Like Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry 1 (ThyBlackMan.com) This year’s award for state sponsored terrorism goes once again to (drum roll) the United States of America. Since 1945, the US has been the hands down winner of the award. In 1945, the US won...
Wars without winners
Panay News
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July 3, 2025
YOU DON’T need to be in a warzone to feel how close you are to something the planet will regret. These days, it feels like pain is everywhere. Somewhere, a war rages. Somewhere else, families are picking up what’s left or waiting for the next hit....
Artist Christina Kimeze’s Paintings Capture “Sovereign Emotional States”
W Magazine
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July 1, 2025
Christina Kimeze opens the door to her studio, situated in a former cardboard box factory in a far-flung part of east London. It is sweltering, which the artist says is preferable to the temperature during winter. “There’s no heating,” the...
Diamond Platinumz on How Tapping Into Happiness Made Him Tanzania’s Biggest Star: ‘We Don’t Wanna Wait for the Politician to Unite Us’
Billboard
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July 2, 2025
As Tanzania’s biggest star, Diamond Platinumz has a lot of pressure on his shoulders. Still, that weight evaporates as he glides into the Billboard offices, cameras flashing, alongside his team. He runs through some new music with a rambunctious...