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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...
Russian Black Sea Fleet Intends to Establish Base in Abkhazia
The Jamestown Foundation
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Executive Summary: Badra Gunba, president of the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia, has reiterated the region’s intentions to establish a Russian naval base at the Port of Ochamchire on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Moscow sees this move as...
Costa Rica Extradites David Ochy to Panama for Alleged Money Laundering
Tico Times
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July 2, 2025
Costa Rican authorities have extradited David Ochy, a former Panamanian presidential candidate, to Panama, where he faces charges of money laundering tied to the high-profile “New Business” case. Ochy, a businessman, was escorted by Interpol...
US and Iran have long complicated history, far beyond Israel's strikes on Tehran
Naharnet
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Jeffrey Fields USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in...
The Thai-Cambodia border disputes: the case for Thailand
Pattaya Mail
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July 2, 2025
An armed soldier guards the Preah Vihear temple complex, a UNESCO world heritage site. All senior Thai politicians, with or without Paetongtarn Shinawatra in the driving seat, are adamant that they will not debate the Cambodian border disputes at...
Latin American alliance sounds alarm on looming disinformation threats
LatAm Journalism Review
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July 2, 2025
By Silvia Higuera July 2, 2025 The importance of free, independent and truthful journalism for democracies is widely accepted by human rights organizations and experts. That’s why these same experts, advocates and journalists have been warning for...
ALBA-TCP Blasts U.S. for Intensifying Economic Blockade Against Cuba
MENAFN
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July 2, 2025
(MENAFN) The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) vehemently condemned the U.S. government's latest move to intensify its economic aggression and blockade against Cuba on Tuesday. In an official...
Latin American Bloc denounces US increasing economic pressure on Cuba
MENAFN
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July 2, 2025
(MENAFN) The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) issued a strong condemnation on Tuesday of the United States’ policy aimed at increasing economic pressure and blockade against Cuba. In an official...
New Jersey and Philly Boxers Set to Throw Down at Atlantic City Summer Fight Night
97.3 ESPN - New Jersey
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July 1, 2025
After four successful events in the Tropicana Atlantic City Showroom, Boxing Insider Promotions will be hosting their fifth fight card this summer, featuring multiple fighters from the South Jersey region. The 2024 NYSHOF Promoter of the Year,...
Health care would be slashed even for immigrants with legal status under massive Senate bill
Alaska Beacon
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July 2, 2025
Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and...
Jnr Champs 25: Cole, DeGannes among four Pan Am qualifiers, but mixed reviews for T&T track and field
Wired 868
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July 2, 2025
Four rising stars, among them two Carifta Games champions, have booked their spots at the Junior Pan American U20 Athletics Championships in Villavicencio, Colombia this October. The four won the right to represent this country at the 2025...
Archaeologists Just Found A "Lost City" That Even The Government Didn't Know About
The Travel
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June 30, 2025
For much of human history, contacting previously unknown people groups and discovering ancient ruins involved a painstaking process of exploring unfamiliar lands and digging through layers of fauna and dirt. Christopher Columbus, for example, had...
Wonky data behind the global warming message
The Conservative Woman
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July 2, 2025
THERE is one aspect of this country’s history that has so far not generated protests and talk of reparations: the Central England Temperature Series (CET). The monthly data runs from 1659 and is the longest temperature record in the world by far....
Lehigh Valley Political Pulse | Immigration Enforcement
WLVR-FM - Pennsylvania
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July 1, 2025
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — In his bid for his second term, President Donald Trump won over voters by campaigning against illegal immigration. But recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have brought about civil unrest from California all the...
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 6.30.25
Florida Politics
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June 30, 2025
Good Monday morning. Breaking late Sunday — “FAA alert suggests Donald Trump to visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Everglades detention center” via Antonio Fins of The Palm Beach Post — A VIP flight restriction over Ochopee signals a potential visit...
Latin regional bloc condemns U.S. policy against Cuba
Xinhua News Agency
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CARACAS, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) on Tuesday strongly condemned the U.S. policy to reinforce economic aggression and blockade against Cuba. In a statement, the bloc...
Anatomy of a mass disappearance in Mexico: ‘Mom, I fell into the hands of the mafia’
El País
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June 28, 2025
They were humble. They came from neighborhoods with low-rise houses, and survived on remittances. They were drivers and bricklayers, housewives and students. They came from Cuba, Honduras, and Ecuador. They wanted to reach the United States, where...
The Democrats and Immigration
Democracy Journal
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July 1, 2025
In the relatively short life of this journal, immigration policy has vexed both sides of American politics. It’s difficult to believe now, but in 2013, leading Republicans thought the party’s restrictionist immigration policy was so damaging to...
Russian MFA says West coercing Georgia into military action in the Caucasus
TASS
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July 1, 2025
PYATIGORSK, July 1. /TASS/. Western countries are blackmailing the Georgian government with sanctions in an effort to push it towards military action against Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Deputy Director of the Fourth CIS Department of the Russian...
Costa Rica Rattles the Globe: 24th Most Quake-Prone Country in 2024
The Costa Rican Times
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June 30, 2025
Costa Rica, June 2025 – Costa Rica may be known for its “Pura Vida” lifestyle, but in 2024 it also earned a spot among the world’s top 30 most earthquake-active nations. According to a May report from Ranking Royals—drawing on data from...