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Scientists Believe This Major Earthquake Fault Line Is Waking Up
TIME Magazine
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July 29, 2025
High up in Canada’s Yukon Territory, a seismic gun is being cocked and aimed at the little community of Dawson City—population 1,600. If a new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is correct, that town or one of many others in the...
Scientists Say A Major Earthquake Fault Line Is Waking Up
Yahoo News
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Small recreational vehicle driving the Dempster Highway near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. Credit - Robert Postma/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group—Getty Images High up in Canada’s Yukon Territory, a seismic gun is being cocked and aimed...
World News in Brief: The first United Nations Mission to Syria Sweida, a new trip to Haiti, a new lightning record
The European Times
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August 1, 2025
The team went In Sweida City, as well as two districts – Shahba and Salkhad – where they met representatives and partners of the local community, in addition to visiting travel sites and reception centers. Members also carried out evaluations in...
Increased surveillance of financial transactions in the Haitian banking system
Haiti Libre
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Haiti - Gangs : Increased surveillance of financial transactions in the Haitian banking system 31/07/2025 09:50:29 Following the designation by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of certain Haitian armed groups as "foreign terrorist...
COMMENTARY ON THE STATE OF BTC
Bahamas Uncensored
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August 10, 2025
The following commentary was submitted in response to the article last week on the state of telecommunications in The Bahamas and in particular the service being provided by BTC. The writer who ahs worked in the telecommunications sector in The...
World News in Brief: First UN mission to Syria’s Sweida, fresh displacement in Haiti, new lightning record
UN News
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July 31, 2025
The team went to Sweida City, as well as two districts – Shahba and Salkhad – where they met with local community representatives and partners, in addition to visiting displacement sites and reception centres. Members also conducted assessments in...
Cholera continues to impact Haiti
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
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July 31, 2025
UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that cholera continues to impact the fragile state of Haiti’s public health system, particularly in displacement sites, where there is limited access to safe...
Federal funding for these ag research labs ended. Now the search is on for new support.
Wisconsin Public Radio
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July 31, 2025
The Feed the Future Initiative helped connect agricultural research at 17 labs — based at land grant universities throughout the U.S. — with foreign partners in an Obama-era effort to address global hunger. Now only one of the innovation labs is...
Global Startup Ecosystem (GSE): Haiti Tech Summit Edition
I News Cayman
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July 31, 2025
July CEO Roundup- Your Replays, Speaking Gigs, Resources, Inside! July CEO Corner Newsletter Hi Everyone! This is straight from the CEO front desk right into your inbox! 🙂 Today is the last day of July and I’m happy to share a monthly roundup of...
It’s not just 'good genes.' It’s a dark reminder of history.
Daily Kos
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August 10, 2025
Outrage over the American Eagle ad featuring Sydney Sweeney comes in a time of heightened concerns about white supremacy and its historical ties to eugenics. By Candice Norwood for The 19th On its surface, American Eagle’s ad campaign starring...
Cholera threatens displaced families as Haiti’s crises deepen
Caribbean National Weekly
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July 30, 2025
Cholera is once again haunting Haiti’s most vulnerable, as the disease spreads in displacement sites where families lack access to safe water and sanitation. The outbreak adds pressure to an already overwhelmed public health system, strained by...
World News in Brief: Violence in Somalia, cholera in Haiti, tax support for sustainable development
UN News
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July 30, 2025
Clashes intensified in the town of Mahas in the Hiraan region, Hirshabelle state, on 26 July forcing the entire population – over 28,000 people – to flee their homes. Another 38,000 people were displaced in the Gedo region, Jubaland state, between...
Haiti-Investigation: Child disappearance near border reignites fears of organ trafficking in Haiti amid stalled investigation
Haitian Times
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July 24, 2025
Overview: The disappearance of a 6-year-old girl in Ouanaminthe adds to a troubling pattern of missing children in Haiti’s border region, reigniting fears of cross-border organ trafficking. Officials offer conflicting responses as investigations...
Scientists in Barbados rediscover world’s smallest-known snake
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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“After a year of searching, you begin to get a little pessimistic,” said Blades, project officer with the Ministry of Environment in Barbados. The snake can fit comfortably on a coin, allowing it to elude scientists for almost 20 years. Too tiny...
Scientists overturn hundreds of rocks to rediscover world's smallest-known snake
ABC News - New York
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July 23, 2025
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world’s smallest-known snake. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct, but one sunny morning, Connor Blades lifted a rock in a tiny...
Science Associated Press Scientists in Barbados overturn hundreds of rocks to rediscover world's smallest-known snake
Yahoo News
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world’s smallest-known snake. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct, but one sunny morning, Connor Blades lifted a rock in a tiny...
Scientists in Barbados overturn hundreds of rocks to rediscover world's smallest-known snake
WSOC 9 - North Carolina
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July 23, 2025
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — (AP) — For nearly two decades, no one had spotted the world’s smallest-known snake. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct, but one sunny morning, Connor Blades lifted a rock in a...
We cannot be quiet on Haiti
Jamaica Observer
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July 28, 2025
Patrons and performers share a photo op after the National Dance Theatre Company’s CCRP benefit performance. There is steady news coverage of the horrific starvation of children in Gaza, but little about the “over one million boys and girls in...
Canada Sending Military Drones to Haiti in Bid to Curb Gang Violence
Nationwide 90FM
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July 28, 2025
The government of Canada has begun deploying military surveillance drones to Haiti as part of a new strategy curb escalating gang violence. The exact number of drones has not been disclosed. However, officials confirmed that deliveries began in...
Haiti’s Secretary Oriol Soars into Office, Again
ABILITY Magazine
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Gerald Oriol, Jr. served as Haiti’s Secretary of State for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities from October 2011 to April 2016. During this five-year period, he was profiled three-times in ABILITY Magazine. This article is an update on...