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Australia Considers Approving GM Purple Tomatoes for Sale
Produce Report
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As reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Food Standards Australia New Zealand has accepted an application from Norfolk Healthy Produce — a U.S. biotech company based in Davis, California — to grow and sell genetically modified...
Grain Train rolling to Kentucky for flood relief
Bristol Press - Connecticut
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BRISTOL — Volunteers with Orphan Grain Train sent more than 7,000 pounds of food as well as clothing, medical supplies and other needed items to Appalachia. Steve Ayers, branch manager of Orphan Grain Train’s New England Branch, said the...
Damon “Webby” Kenison, Sr.
The Wanderer - Massachusetts
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Damon “Webby” Kenison, Sr., 91 of Salem, NH passed away on Thursday, November 14th at Parkland Medical Center, Derry, NH. He grew up in Salem and after graduating from Woodbury High School, he joined the US Army to begin a 27 year career in...
Teachers Intensify Protests, Announce Legal Action Against the Ministry of Education Measures
Newsroom Panama
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June 29, 2025
The various teachers’ unions, united in the Teachers’ Action Front (FAM), the National Union of Educators of Panama (UNEP), and the Union of Educators for the Quality of Panamanian Education (UNECEP), announced that they will continue their...
To protect beef industry, US to breed billions of flies as pest control
The Gleaner
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July 6, 2025
The United States government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but it is part of the government’s...
Migrants Turn Around: Thousands Return Disillusioned With the “American Dream”
14ymedio
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July 4, 2025
Donald Trump’s arrival to power has pushed for this return, which is not always easy. Many migrants use land and sea routes to avoid the Darién Jungle and face limitations due to lack of documentation / EFE 14ymedio, Madrid, 1 July 2025 — A wave...
U.S. plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it will work
Texarkana Gazette - Arkansas
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July 6, 2025
TOPEKA, Kan. -- The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but it is part of the...
Revealed: How the Defence Forces hunted cocaine ship MV Matthew for five days before assaulting it from the skies
Irish Mirror
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July 5, 2025
The Defence Forces operation to seize the MV Matthew came within feet of disaster – and only the skill of an Air Corps pilot saved the day. Sources say the Air Corps helicopter that flew an Army Ranger Wing team to seize the cocaine-laden...
Tobacco lobbyists’ point person in Malacañang?
Manila Standard
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June 29, 2025
“Gomez’s lack of familiarity with the current media ecosystem could result in outdated, out-of-touch communication strategies” COFFEE shops are like a lake abuzz with outboards, with health advocates getting ill at ease over rumors that a...
Matildas inspire new generation of footballers to kick 'like a girl'
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 5, 2025
As the Matildas took to the field for the first time ever in regional Western Australia, kids lined the fences with permanent markers heavy in their pockets in the hope of nabbing a signature after the game. Over 10,000 people gathered at...
PM Shehbaz meets Chaudhry Nisar to discuss country's political situation
The News International
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday met former PML-N lawmaker and renowned politician Chaudhry Nisar Ali and discussed the current political situation in the country. The premier visited Nisar at his Islamabad residence and inquired...
PM Shehbaz, Chaudhry Nisar discuss country's political situation
GEO TV
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June 29, 2025
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday met former interior minister and veteran politician Chaudhry Nisar Ali and discussed the prevailing political situation in the country, The premier visited Nisar at his Islamabad residence and...
Live Like You’re On Vacation
Observer Today
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The natural beauty of Chautauqua County combined with our extraordinary manmade assets creates a spot that is just right for tourists and is also an exceptional place to live. Recreational and cultural opportunities are year-round, but our region...
Tiu Laurel’s regime of (agri) pestilence
The Manila Times
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July 5, 2025
DOMINGO “Ding” Panganiban was barely in his 30s when he received a Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of the Philippines award in 1969, in a time when that prize was actually awarded to truly overachieving young men younger than 40. Panganiban then...
Fascism’s New Face is Still The Same!
teleSUR
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On July 3, the Meeting of Promoting Teams of the Antifascist International is taking place at a right time. The stated objective is “to update and strengthen our shared agenda in a critical moment of regional and global tension amid the escalation...
De Wayne Dean Ruppert
WISC Channel 3000 - Wisconsin
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De Wayne D. Ruppert, 97, passed away Friday June 20, 2025 at the V.A. Hospital, with his loving family by his side. He was born June 24, 1927 in Newton, IA. to Levi and Grace (Mc Pherson) Ruppert. He attended High School during WWII. While in High...
Native Like Water nonprofit created to reconnect Indigenous youth with their history, ocean culture
The San Diego Union-Tribune - California
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July 5, 2025
Intuitively, Marc Chavez says he knew that school really wasn’t a good fit for him as a teen. It wasn’t just that he was goofing off, but the material wasn’t engaging and didn’t speak to him because it didn’t reflect his story and that of his...
‘We don’t want contact because you are bad’: loggers close in on uncontacted people in Peruvian Amazon
The Guardian
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July 5, 2025
In 1999, Beatriz Huertas, then a young anthropologist, travelled deep into the Peruvian Amazon to investigate reports of uncontacted Indigenous peoples. Along the Las Piedras River, people in Monte Salvado, a Yine Indigenous village, described how...
US government to release billions of flies into Mexico to stop flesh-eating insects from crossing border
Daily Mail
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July 4, 2025
Scientists are preparing to breed and drop billions of flies on Mexico to halt a flesh-eating parasite from crossing the border. The Trump Administration is leading the effort to prevent the spread of the New World Screwworm, which was eradicated...
AP Trending SummaryBrief at 9:35 a.m. EDT
Imperial Valley Press - California
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UK authorities seize cocaine worth more than $130 million from a ship at London port LONDON (AP) — British authorities say they seized 2.4 metric tons of cocaine in a ship arriving in England from Panama. The drugs are valued at almost 96 million...