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NEW: Tax Fraudster & RI Suboxone Clinic Cheat Brier Sentenced to Federal Prison
GoLocalProv - Rhode Island
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Tuesday, January 07, 2025 GoLocalProv News Team View Larger + Michael Brier had been sentenced to federal prison - again. PHOTO: LinkedIn Michael Brier, the former owner of a now defunct Rhode Island-based chain of addiction treatment centers who...
Trump dreams of an empire, from Greenland to Panama
Las Vegas Sun - Nevada
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January 4, 2025
Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025 | 2 a.m. Plutarch wrote that Alexander the Great wept when his minions informed him that there were no more worlds left to conquer. His empire, stretching from Egypt to the northwest corner of India, encompassed the entirety...
7 mins ago early and often early and often Trump Wants to Remind the World He’s Still a ‘Madman’ By Ed Kilgore The president-elect’s weird threats against Canada, Greenland, and Panama seem designed to reinforce fears that he’ll nuke anyone who crosses…
New York Mag
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January 8, 2025
The president-elect goes absolutely wild at a pre-inaugural presser at Mar-a-Lago. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump’s press conference at Mar-a-Lago on January 7 was a lost opportunity for insight into the new...
Panama Prepares for Cruise Season with Arrival of more than 350,000 Tourists
Newsroom Panama
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October 3, 2024
The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) has announced the start of a promising cruise season that will begin on October 6 in the Caribbean and on October 9 in the Pacific. During this season, the arrival of more than 350 thousand cruise passengers is...
Fixing hospitals should take priority over fast rail
The Sydney Morning Herald
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January 8, 2025
Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Living on the Central Coast, I am all for the construction of a high-speed rail link to Sydney...
Threads posts - Claim Denmark offered to buy U.S. and give free health care originated as satire
Politifact
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January 8, 2025
Days before returning to the White House, President-elect Donald Trump again raised the prospect of buying Greenland from Denmark, citing national security needs. One Threads user claimed Denmark responded to Trump’s offers to buy the Arctic...
Canadian party leader to Oregon: C’mon over, the health care’s free!
OregonLive.com
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January 8, 2025
A prominent Canadian party leader has issued an open invitation to Oregon, Washington and California: Wanna link up, eh? The remarks were made — just possibly in jest — by Canada’s Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, during a press conference in...
Some US nationals in Panama dismiss Trump's canal threat
The News International
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PANAMA: Dozens of US tourists watching a cargo ship pass along the Panama Canal termed President-elect Donald Trump's threat to possibly wrest back control of the waterway as nonsensical. "I think it is 100% Panama, yeah, and it should stay such,"...
On a Trek of a Lifetime: Migrants Survived Dangerous Panamanian Jungle, Face An Uncertain Future in US
The Tablet - New York
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January 2, 2025
Josibel, a Venezuelan mother of four, weeps as she recalls her family’s ordeal in the dense jungle of Panama’s Darién Gap. (Photo: Bill Miller) SUNSET PARK — Marlin and Josibel knew the 5,000-mile hike from their homes in Venezuela to the United...
The Panama Canal, Jimmy Carter and Robert C. Byrd
Times West Virginian
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January 1 marks the 25th anniversary of the Panama Canal being returned to Panama based on the Treaties signed by Jimmy Carter. In 1977, when the matter was being considered and debated in the US Senate my wife, Faith received an invitation to...
Panamanian unions demand solidarity system over insurance
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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September 30, 2024
Andrade indicated that organizations such as the College of Pharmacists and the National Medical Negotiating Commission also indicated that the solidarity system is the way forward, which would additionally increase taxes for the State. The union...
Trump’s Panama gambit spurs controversy
Mail & Guardian
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January 6, 2025
US president elect, Donald Trump. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Donald Trump swept to victory on promises to retreat from the foreign entanglements that had defined recent US presidencies, vowing instead to champion American industry,...
What China Says About Panama Canal: Small Nations Have Rights Too.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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December 31, 2024
- Advertisement - This point of view comes from China’s Global Post and can be assumed to represent the views of the Chinese government. President-elect Donald Trump recently suggested the US might take back control of the Panama Canal, accusing...
Caribbean Matters: Correcting Trump’s big lie about the Panama Canal
Daily Kos
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January 4, 2025
Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of the Caribbean. Incompetent-elect Donald Trump made...
Reagan Was Right About Panama Canal. So Is Trump.
The Daily Signal - Washington D.C.
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December 30, 2024
“We built it. We paid for it. It’s ours.” That was Ronald Reagan’s take on how we should think about the Panama Canal when Americans were debating giving it to the Panamanian government in the 1970s. “We cannot abdicate our responsibility for the...
Panama Is Paradise For Rainforests, Wildlife, And Potential Partners
Forbes
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A Harpy Eagle in the Panamania Rain Forest. The Harpy is the most powerful bird of prey in the world ... [+] that needs large tracts of undisturbed lowland tropical forest . The raptor feeds on sloths and mokeys. It's range used to be from Mexico...
Warning over quality of drugs after price cut in Panama
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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January 4, 2025
In a first reaction to the recent message to the nation of the President of the Republic, José Raúl Mulino, before the National Assembly (parliament), the entity requested that it also be a transparent process. “Price reduction, while positive in...
Readers sound off on insulting our allies, Leonard Peltier and funding mental health treatment
New York Daily News
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December 31, 2024
With a friend like this, who needs any enemies? Fishkill, N.Y.: In a matter of a few days, Donald Trump again proved his abysmal ignorance of world affairs. Using his unfiltered mouth, he managed to insult the governments, not to mention citizens,...
From Panama to Palestine, Jimmy Carter refused to let his moral voice be silenced
The Guardian
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December 30, 2024
In May 1989, the former US president Jimmy Carter walked into the lobby of a hotel in Panama and made it known he was determined to be heard in spite of attempts by the country’s military ruler, Gen Manuel Noriega, to shut him up. Carter was still...
Panama's President at U.N.: U.S.-Bound Migrants Leaving Trail of 'Decomposing Corpses' in My Country
Breitbart
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September 26, 2024
President of Panama José Raúl Mulino declared U.S.-bound migrants passing through his country an “immense global problem” at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, urging the international community to help. Mulino, who took office in...