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U.S.A. shuts down Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico
DGR News
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July 9, 2025: Tuesday (July 8, 2025), Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) reported a new case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Ixhuatlan de Madero, Veracruz in Mexico, which is approximately 160 miles...
Malawi and Colombia explore higher education collaboration
Maravi Express
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July 5, 2025
Kabwila withAmbassador Mina-Rojas * Colombia has strong commitment to international relations, particularly in education—Ambassador Mina-Rojas * Exchange programs for staff and students include in research, postgraduate training, and youth skills...
“This is a dream”: Nicaraguan family wins permanent residency in the US through visa lottery
Q Costa Rica
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October 17, 2024
Q24N (VOA) A Nicaraguan family that participated in the visa lotteries promoted annually by the US government, describes what they experienced after benefiting from the program. The family obtained their permanent residency just one month after...
Israel’s ambassador to Costa Rica: “Nicaragua is becoming a platform for terrorism in the region”
La Prensa
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October 16, 2024
Following the diplomatic break initiated by Daniel Ortega’s regime with Israel on October 11, Israel’s Ambassador to Costa Rica, and until last Friday to Nicaragua as well, Mijal Gur-Aryeh, stated in an interview with LA PRENSA that this action...
Chinese delegation continues visit to Nicaragua (+Photo)
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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October 17, 2024
The functionary arrived on Wednesday in the capital of Nicaragua, where she met with the president of the National Assembly, Gustavo Porras, and other members of the board of directors of the legislative body. During the meeting, the visitor...
US Prepares to Combat New World Screwworm Outbreak Using Sterile Flies
Times News Global
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July 11, 2025
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is mobilizing to combat an outbreak of New World screwworms, a flesh-eating insect threatening livestock health along the southwestern border. This initiative involves aerial dispersal of sterilized flies to...
As Immigrants Continue Being Targeted During Money Transfer Process, Peninsula Latino Leaders Partner with Silicon Valley Tech Company to Make Money Transfers Safe Through Innovative Online Platform Prósperos
The AI Journal
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October 24, 2024
Currently, families are at risk of robbery while traveling to banks and wire transfer locations, as these transactions often involve carrying large amounts of cash. REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — In response to the growing...
Vulgarity of Money
Dissident Voice
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July 10, 2025
Several times, the question arose of whether Menachem Begin saw any comparison between the struggle of the Palestinians and the Jews’ War of Independence. Once, Mike Wallace, the well-known American interviewer asked him directly, “Mr. Prime...
Canadian news website network disseminating pro-Kremlin views: research
Insight News Media
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October 15, 2024
As Canada has launched an investigation into Russia’s interference, influence campaigns, and disinformation, we have researched which Canada-based news websites spread pro-Kremlin narratives and quote Russian state propaganda media that are under...
Immigration enforcement should be proportional
Florida Catholic
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ORLANDO | So 40 miles due east from Everglades City and 55 miles due west from downtown Miami lies a center of controversy surrounding the complicated issue of immigration. “Alligator Alcatraz,” as it has become known, is in Ochopee, Florida,...
Russian surveillance network in Nicaragua raises alarm
BNE Intellinews
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Nicaragua has become a crucial centre for Russian espionage operations in Latin America, according to recent reports. The Kremlin-friendly Central American country ruled by President Daniel Ortega allegedly hosts advanced surveillance systems,...
Journalists Flee Nicaragua as Ortega’s Repression Escalates
Tico Times
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October 8, 2024
At least 278 journalists have been forced to leave Nicaragua over the past six years to escape persecution by Daniel Ortega’s government, according to a report released this Monday by the Foundation for Freedom of Expression and Democracy (FLED)....
Global South denounces genocide in Gaza, Nicaragua breaks relations with ‘fascist’ Israel, Latin America supports Palestine
Geopolitical Economy
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October 13, 2024
More and more countries in the Global South are cutting relations with Israel, accusing it of committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. United Nations experts have stated that there “are reasonable grounds to believe that the...
Progress Made on Scientific Measures at the International Whaling Commission Meeting
ECO Magazine
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Significant progress was made on a number of scientific, conservation, and procedural measures adopted by 65 countries at the 69th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Lima, Peru. Most crucially for the US and several other...
WOMEN IN TECH STATISTICS 2024: MALE TO FEMALE RATIO
Hollywood Gazette
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September 23, 2024
WOMEN IN TECH STATISTICS 2024: MALE TO FEMALE RATIO Last Updated: September 17, 2024 Women in tech statistics for 2024 show that the role of women in tech fields is imbalanced to say the least. While it’s true that the STEM industry is skewed to...
International demand for pineapple juice grows
Fresh Plaza
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July 10, 2025
Demand for pineapple juice and the growth of markets such as Israel and Dubai are boosting Costa Rican exports, despite production limitations due to weather conditions. According to Álvaro Figueroa, president of the Tropicales del Valle company,...
Dominican Republic and Nicaragua explore expansion of academic ties
Dominican Today
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Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology, Dr. Franklin García Fermín, met with Nicaraguan Ambassador Jessica Padilla Leiva to discuss strengthening bilateral relations and promoting academic exchanges...
Latest false charge against Nicaragua – it’s ‘weaponising’ immigration to the United States
Morning Star
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September 26, 2024
CLAIMS that Nicaragua is “weaponising” immigration by allowing free passage of migrants towards the US border have been appearing regularly in the media. The BBC (in Spanish, in July) is the latest, but similar reports have appeared in the...
Who is Rolando Álvarez, the bishop persecuted by the Nicaraguan dictatorship?
Catholic News Agency
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October 3, 2024
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 3, 2024 / 06:00 am Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos is once again in the news after Pope Francis appointed him to participate in the second session of the Synod on Synodality, which got underway this week at the Vatican. The...
Continuing crackdown on churches, NGOs moves Nicaragua further from democracy to authoritarianism
WLRN - Florida
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September 26, 2024
The Nicaraguan government recently shut down more than 1,500 nonprofits — many of them civic and religious groups doing humanitarian work in a country long mired in political violence, economic upheaval and social strife. The August 2024 closures...