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World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism
UN News
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June 13, 2025
Between 1 January and 30 May, at least 2,680 people – including 54 children – were killed, 957 injured, 316 kidnapped for ransom, and many more subjected to sexual violence and child gang recruitment. “Alarming as they are, numbers cannot express...
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...
WORDS ABOUT WILTON: Gail Hoar – Reconnecting with America through soaps
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript - New Hampshire
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The other day, I tuned to a program on NPR discussing the story of soap operas on TV. It made me laugh, as long-shelved memories began to reemerge and I realized this topic ties to why we settled in Wilton. Let me explain. In the late 1960s, I...
Is Fencing Nigeria the Solution?
The News Chronicle
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June 26, 2025
Nigeria is at war! Make no mistake about it. The nation has become a sprawling killing field irrigated by the blood of compatriots. And it appears as if the armed forces are overwhelmed. War induces trauma in a number of ways. The fighting troops...
Armed forces have made significant efforts at tackling food insecurity, says CDS
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 14, 2025
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, has disclosed that the Nigerian Armed Forces, in partnership with other security agencies, have made important efforts in addressing insecurity as part of efforts to achieve food security....
Field, Laycock and Whyte confirmed for Bognor Regis Town squad – but fans’ event is postponed
Sussex World
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June 13, 2025
Chad Field is staying at Bognor Regis Town for the new campaign -- and has been handed the captain's armband by bosses Jamie Howell and Michael Birmingham. But the Rocks have decided to reschedule the ‘player reveal’ event for supporters, which...
"Hawk Tuah" phenomenon turned one this month: Here is what factory worker turned influencer, Haliet Welch, is up to
The Times of India
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Credit: Instagram/@hay_welch You blink once, and a year flies by. That’s exactly how it feels when you realize that the “Hawk Tuah” phenomenon—one of the internet’s wildest viral moments—first exploded exactly a year ago. What began as a...
Gender gap closes at fastest pace since pandemic, says WEF
IOL
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June 12, 2025
The global gender gap has closed to 68.8%, marking the strongest annual advancement since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2025, released on Thursday. However, the report says full parity...
From 'Dune' To John Wick, Sharon Duncan-Brewster Is Spoiling For A Fight
Inverse
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June 12, 2025
When Sharon Duncan-Brewster found out she was going to be in a John Wick spinoff, she didn’t know what to expect. Prior to being cast in Ballerina, she had only seen one John Wick film. “I knew there’s a bit of fighting and there’s a bit of action...
Hamilton International Forms Strategic Partnership With Warp Development
Textile World
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Atlanta-based Hamilton International has announced a strategic equity investment in Monroe, N.C.-based Warp Development, forming an equal partnership to accelerate growth, and enhance capabilities and customer value. Chad Clay will remain CEO of...
Meet West Lafayette's hidden golf gem
Journal and Courier - Indiana
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WEST LAFAYETTE ― A calm resonance is heard as West Lafayette junior Jackson Rodgers practiced chipping the ball from the fringe onto the green. Through the rims of his glasses, Rodgers' eyes are fixated as he follows the ball from his back swing....
Blood in the middle belt: Enough of the slaughter
The Cable
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June 25, 2025
BY NNAA KALU NTO They come at night. Sometimes at dawn. Guns in hand, machetes sharpened, torches lit. Entire villages razed. Children thrown into wells. Families were burned alive in their homes. This isn’t a warzone in a foreign country. It’s...
Chad's Secretary Of State For Petroleum, Mines And Geology Joins African Mining Week (AMW) 2025
MENAFN
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June 25, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) Khadidja Hassane Abdoulaye, Secretary of State for Petroleum, Mines and Geology at Chad's Ministry of Mines and Geology, has joined the upcoming African Mining Week conference as a speaker. Taking place from October 1-3, 2025,...
"Beijing Summit: China-Africa Cooperation Outcomes"
Sada Elbalad
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June 11, 2025
Press ReleaseIn September 2024, the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was successfully held, opening a new chapter of China and Africa building an all-weather community with a shared future for the new era. President...
Where Haliey Welch is now one year after viral 'Hawk Tuah' video
LAD Bible
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It's been one year since American woman Haliey Welch shot to viral fame and became known as 'Hawk Tuah Girl'. In case you've been out of the loop on this one, YouTuber duo Tim and Dee TV were out on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee, asking...
Biomass Satellite Returns Striking First Images of Forests and More
SpaceWatch.Global
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June 24, 2025
ESA has shared the first images from its Biomass Earth Explorer mission after the satellite launched aboard a Vega-C rocket back in April. The images feature Bolivia, the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, tropical forest on islands in Indonesia, the...
Cry Ethiopia – ETHIOPIA’S RUTHLESS REGIME USES FAMINE AS A CRUEL WEAPON
Zehabesha
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ETHIOPIA’S RUTHLESS REGIME USES FAMINE AS A CRUEL WEAPON. 201N-162-027 Victims of famine 201N-014-012 The plight of the starving Africa, especially in Ethiopia, has drawn the world’s horrified sympathy and elicited an unprecedented outpouring of...
Peter Obi Sounds Alarm on Nigeria's Insecurity and Hardship
Nigerian Eye
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June 11, 2025
Peter Obi, the 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has expressed deep concern over the escalating insecurity and hardship in Nigeria. Speaking at an event in Abuja, on Tuesday, Obi described the country as a "crime scene" that...
Rift deepens between Peter Obi, LP leadership ahead of 2027 elections
Prompt News Online
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June 11, 2025
Tensions between the Labour Party (LP) leadership and its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have deepened amid renewed accusations over internal party divisions and the road to the 2027 general elections. On Tuesday, the party’s National...
Obi, LP leadership clash over 2027, blackmail claims
Punch
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June 11, 2025
The crisis in the Labour Party and its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has escalated amid fresh accusations and counter-accusations over the party’s direction ahead of the 2027 general election. The party leadership, through its National...