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The rail industry needs more women engineers
Civil Engineering - Virginia
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By Jacqueline L. Patterson, Ed.D., P.E., CCM, M.ASCE I wish I’d known earlier in my career what I now understand about recruiting and retaining women — especially women of color — in rail engineering. If so, I would have acted with greater urgency...
Scientists Unite: Asunción To Host Ibero-American Researchers’ Night 2025
The Asunción Times
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July 8, 2025
Paraguay is set to become the focal point for the sixth “Ibero-American Researchers’ Night 2025”, an event for scientific collaboration. The event will be held on September 26 and 27 2025 in Asunción, and will represent the most ambitious...
DHS Strips Temporary Protected Status From Hondurans and Nicaraguans
Red State
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July 8, 2025
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued two bulletins on Monday terminating the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of Honduran and Venezuelan nationals in the United States, citing the improved conditions in both countries,...
Trump ends TPS program for Nicaragua, Honduras, angering rights groups
United Press International (UPI)
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July 7 (UPI) -- The United States has ended federal protections shielding thousands of migrants from Nicaragua and Honduras from deportation, angering immigration and civil rights advocacy groups as the Trump administration continues to remove...
Trump administration rescinds TPS for Honduras, Nicaragua
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Under federal law, the administration can grant TPS to a country where conditions preclude its citizens from returning safely, or when that nation can’t “handle the return” of its people adequately, according to the US Citizenship and Immigration...
How Ancient Farmers Engineered the Avocados We Eat Today
SciTechDaily
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July 5, 2025
Ancient avocado remains in Honduras reveal early domestication practices that may hold keys to the crop’s future resilience. The discovery challenges our assumptions about modern farming and genetic diversity. Credit: Shutterstock Avocado remains...
Not rocket science: Sport managers shocked TT miss NACAC meet due to vaccine card
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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July 5, 2025
Sports Jelani Beckles 33 Minutes Ago Tobago athlete Gloria Henry - The National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAA) has blamed "an administrative oversight" for national junior athletes – all Tobagonians – being unable to attend the...
INETCO and Serfinsa Announce New Technology Alliance to Accelerate Payment Modernization Across Central America
T-Net
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INETCO and Serfinsa Announce New Technology Alliance to Accelerate Payment Modernization Across Central America Serfinsa accelerates payment modernization across Central America with INETCO Vancouver, BC, July 4, 2025--(T-Net)--INETCO, a global...
Nicaraguan national faces multiple charges after extradition from Spain
Sunshine Sentinel - Florida
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June 17, 2025
Hayden O’Byrne United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida | The Florida BarHayden O’Byrne United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida | The Florida Bar Ernesto Ortega Padgett, a Nicaraguan national previously...
A Nicaraguan View from the Frontlines: Revolution, Reconciliation, and Resistance
CovertAction Magazine
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June 26, 2025
[Source: Photo courtesy of Jennifer Aist] “Democracy in the U.S. has never been functional. It’s just in some laws, but it has never been implemented. There’s a huge misinformation campaign going on in the U.S., and media is manipulating people...
Nicaragua and China break ground on landmark solar project to power water access and energy sovereignty
Friends of Socialist China
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June 17, 2025
The following report in Telesur notes that Nicaragua, in partnership with China, has inaugurated construction on the country’s largest solar plant to date, powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on...
Nicaragua’s “Co-Presidents” Withdraw the Country from Acnur
Havana Times
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June 14, 2025
Personnel from Acnur, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, visit a family of displaced Nicaraguan farmers in Costa Rica who were forced to flee the violent government repression that followed widespread protests of 2018. Photo:...
Ortega Expels UN Refugee Agency Over Report on Nicaraguans
Havana Times
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June 20, 2025
Nicaraguans participating in a march held in Costa Rica, the country harboring the largest number of Nicaraguan refugees. Photo from archives Far from recognizing its responsibility in this humanitarian crisis, the dictatorship announced that...
Here’s How To Travel To Bluefields, Nicaragua, And What To Do When There
Travel Noire
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June 20, 2025
On Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, where the mouth of the Escondido River and the Caribbean Sea meet, is Bluefields, Nicaragua. It’s the capital of the South Caribbean Autonomous Region in Nicaragua and is home to one of the largest populations of...
Crowley Expands Caribbean and Central America Service with Newest LNG Container Ship
Offshore Source - Florida
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Crowley’s newest, LNG-powered containership Tiscapa began its inaugural service on July 10, adding faster, bigger options for timely ocean cargo transport around the US Caribbean and Central America. Like its sister ships in the Avance Class,...
GBH Daily: Science funding in court
WGBH - Massachusetts
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June 16, 2025
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FDA warns seafood processors in France and Nicaragua about HACCP violations
Food Safety News
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June 16, 2025
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days...
Juvenile Athletes Punch Tickets For Nicaragua
St. Lucia Times
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June 15, 2025
Eight athletes have qualified to represent Saint Lucia at next month’s NACAC Age Group Championships. The elite eight emerged from a competitive field of nearly 40 athletes at last weekend’s qualifying event at the Soufriere Stadium, with only the...
New measures adopted by Donald Trump against Cuba
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 11, 2025
After failing to overthrow the Cuban Revolution for six decades, the hawks in Washington, supported by wealthy Cuban-American mafiosi who profit from their dirty policy, have continued to intensify their genocidal hostility against a people who...
Roaming Charges: Heckuva Job, Puppy Slayer!
CounterPunch
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July 11, 2025
Central Texas floods. Still from video posted to X. “Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it’s a right fucking pain in the arse.” – Ricky Gervais While offering his “thoughts and prayers” for the families of those...