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Basic Dignities brings clean water and education around the world
Naperville Community Television - Illinois
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June 16, 2025
Basic Dignities was founded in 2016 to bring basic human rights such as clean water, education, healthcare, food, and shelter to underdeveloped communities around the world. Their focus is on raising the quality of life wherever they work and...
UAE Cabinet discusses nation's high ranking in global competitiveness report
The National News
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The UAE has ranked in the top five countries in the world for competitiveness, according to the results of a study which was discussed during a meeting of the UAE Cabinet. The meeting, which was chaired by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Prime...
Africa's Pangolin Crisis: The Delicacy That's Driving a Species to the Brink
ScienceDaily
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The vast majority of pangolin hunting in African forest landscapes is done for meat consumed by people in the region, rather than for scales shipped to East Asia, a new study led by the University of Cambridge suggests. Pangolins are the most...
Shared Seas, Shared Future: Africa’s strategic role in Global Ocean Protection
Daily News Tanzania
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June 12, 2025
ON June 18th 2023, a submissible called Titan, operated by Ocean gate expeditions, became global breaking news when it tragically imploded, about 4000 metres below the North Atlantic Ocean surface, during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic, that...
Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds
Mongabay
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June 17, 2025
A recent report from the Wildlife Justice Commission analyzed trends in ivory and pangolin scales trafficking from Africa over the past decade using seizure data and found that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted the illegal trade, with...
Israel Vows to Strike ‘Everywhere’ Against Iranian Regime
Foreign Policy
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Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at deadly strikes between Israel and Iran, day one of meetings at the G-7 summit, and a U.S. immigration crackdown. Attacks on Tehran Airstrikes lit up the Israeli and Iranian skies on Monday,...
U.S. Lawmakers Ponder A Remittance Tax
Forbes
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A woman counts money outside a U.S. remittance collection agency in San Isidro, 70 km northeast of ... More San Salvador, on June 10, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by MARVIN RECINOS / AFP) (Photo by MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty...
Today's Final Jeopardy! answer: Monday, June 9, 2025
Sportskeeda
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June 9, 2025
Jeopardy! is all set to return with a new episode, kickstarting the second week of June. The 41st season has been very interesting all throughout, and even now, we have a very promising contestant set to return in the upcoming round. Nikhil Joshi...
Rethinking the place of communication in combating malnutrition in Africa
The Cable
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June 16, 2025
BY MILLISCENT NNWOKA Africa faces a grave nutrition crisis, one that statistics alone cannot solve. In Nigeria, 40% of children under five are stunted, and over 17 million people are food insecure (UNICEF, 2023; FAO et al., 2023). Children are not...
Local Notes: Trad music workshops, remembering Christopher Lynch and double bill of drama
The Roscommon Herald
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June 12, 2025
MEN’S HEALTH WEEK EVENT Communities and organisations across County Roscommon are coming together this week, June 9th to June 15th to mark International Men’s Health Week 2025. This year’s theme 'Shoulder-to-Shoulder: Connecting for Health'...
US considers imposing visa ban on Nigeria, 24 other African countries
Premium Times
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June 14, 2025
About one week after imposing a travel ban on seven African countries, the Donald Trump-led US administration is considering imposing a visa ban and other travel restrictions on citizens of Nigeria and 24 other African countries. The Washington...
OPEC calls for IEA restraint on stock releases as members monitor Israel-Iran risks
Hellenic Shipping News
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June 15, 2025
OPEC Secretary General Haitham al-Ghais has accused the International Energy Agency of raising “false alarms” amid Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, after the agency’s chief hinted at potentially releasing emergency oil stocks. In a...
US navy veteran with decorated career laid to rest in County Roscommon
The Roscommon Herald
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June 11, 2025
A US navy veteran who had a distinguished military career was laid to rest recently in Oran where his mother hailed from and where he spent many summers. Christopher Lynch (61) of Bayside, New York, USA and Oran, Donamon, Co. Roscommon passed away...
Deputy Minister of Energy courts Canadian investors for Ghana's Petroleum Hub project
GhanaWeb
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June 14, 2025
In fulfilment of his earlier pledge to champion the Petroleum Hub project, the Deputy Minister of Energy and Green Transition, Richard Gyan-Mensah, showcased the initiative to Canadian investors as a prime example of Africa’s commitment to...
WAFCON: Nigeria’s Yemisi Akintoye earns continental honour as CAF unveils record team of officials
Premium Times
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June 13, 2025
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has officially announced the list of match officials for the upcoming CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Morocco 2024, with Nigeria’s Yemisi Akintoye standing tall among the 46 selected referees,...
These Are The 50 Richest Countries By GDP Per Capita
Zero Hedge
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GDP per capita is a rough proxy for a country’s average living standards. A higher GDP per capita usually reflects more economic resources available per person, a signal for prosperity. However, like all statistical measures there are caveats: it...
How Trump's Africa strategy may become a double-edged sword
BBC
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June 14, 2025
ShareSave The focus of US military strategy in Africa is changing under Trump With US President Donald Trump on a cost-cutting warpath since starting his second term, aid to Africa has been slashed and now defence spending is in his sights - but...
North Atlantic Right Whale Among the Endangered Species Highlighted In Upcoming Apple TV+ Show ‘The Wild Ones’
Deeper Blue
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June 11, 2025
The endangered North Atlantic Right Whale is one of the animals highlighted in the upcoming Apple TV+ series “The Wild Ones,” the trailer for which was recently released. Featuring former Royal Marines Commando and expedition leader Aldo Kane...
Who won Jeopardy! tonight? June 9, 2025, Monday
Sportskeeda
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June 9, 2025
On Monday, June 9, 2025, a high-stakes episode of Jeopardy! premiered, featuring three contestants from different backgrounds: Nikhil Joshi, the returning champion, Ted Nyman, a startup founder, and Jackie Rogoff, a writer and library student....
Perenco deploying upcycled MOPU to oil field off Congo
Offshore Energy
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June 13, 2025
A converted mobile offshore production unit (MOPU) is set to work with the Congolese subsidiary of Anglo-French oil and gas player Perenco at a license it operates offshore Congo. Congo's Minister of Hydrocarbons visits shipyard in Vlissingen;...