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Debt's climate link: Reforming global debt architecture is key to unlocking climate finance
Down to Earth
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As the fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) kicks off in Seville, Spain, we look at how a massive debt burden on developing countries is holding them back. As an unfit global financial architecture makes accessing...
Today in High Prairie: July 5, 2025
South Peace News
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July 4, 2025
Today in High Prairie! See what’s happening today in town, celebrity birthdays, local history, world history and your daily horoscope. Please send your birthdays and community events to southpeacenews@hotmail.com and/or spneditor@outlook.com....
Portuguese Africa
Mauritius Times
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July 4, 2025
Mauritius Times – 70 Years The brutality of Portuguese colonialism is well attested by independent writers who have visited these black spots By Peter Ibbotson There has been a lot of childish talk and thought about the tragedy of Congo....
Algeria’s Significant Role in Africa’s Wars of Liberation
OkayAfrica
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July 4, 2025
July 5th marks Algerian Independence Day. In 1962, it became the first African country to liberate itself from 132 years of French occupation and colonization, having waged an eight-year-long guerrilla war. But Algeria wasn’t done fighting...
Revealed: How Hezbollah fundraisers helped finance the €157m MV Matthew drug operation
The Journal
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July 4, 2025
THE KINAHAN CRIME group and international drug criminals partnered up with Iranian fundraisers for Hezbollah and paid €5 million up front for the cocaine that was to be shipped to Ireland on board the MV Matthew, The Journal has learned. The money...
The lost dreams of Cape Verdeans who studied casino management in Macau
Macau Business
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July 3, 2025
A group of 17 Cape Verdeans travelled to Macau to study with the aim of joining the management team of a hotel-casino under construction in Praia. Nine years later, the project remains unfinished, and most have since emigrated. In November 2016,...
Q+A: Sunfest founder on scouring the globe to bring music to London
Calgary Sun
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Entertainment Local News Sunfest found Alfredo Caxaj talks about the London music festival he built, along with the global travels that help bring it to life Sunfest founder Alfredo Caxaj holds the poster promoting the first...
US Hotel Chains Hilton, Marriott Set Sights On Africa Amid Tariff-Triggered Domestic Slowdown
myMotherLode - California
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New properties are planned in Angola, Ghana, Benin, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Congo, Madagascar and Mauritania U.S. hotel chains Hilton (HLT) and Marriott (MAR) have announced a significant expansion drive in Africa, responding to the growing...
Super Falcons kick off WAFCON against Tunisia on Sunday
The Sun Nigeria
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July 4, 2025
As the 2025 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations kicks off on Sunday, 6 July, all eyes are on the Super Falcons of Nigeria as they take on Tunisia in the tournament’s opening match. The Group B encounter is set for the Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca,...
Fall River plows forward amid tariffs and harsh immigration policies
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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It’s a challenge that most businesses in the region and the country that depend on foreign imports are facing, he said. His company, which serves the broader Portuguese-speaking diaspora from Cape Verde, Brazil, and beyond, prefers to recruit...
Does the left punish corruption more than the right?
Ara
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July 4, 2025
BarcelonaA new case of (alleged) corruption has been shaking the Spanish government and the survival of the current legislature for days. The issues of the Koldo case The cases affecting José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, both former...
The tragedy of Diogo Jota and Rute Cardoso: Wedding and widowhood in just 10 days
El País
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July 4, 2025
On a day when Portugal was focused on the trial of the century, with a former prime minister in the dock accused of corruption, the country was rocked instead by one of those fatalities for which no one is ready. Least of all Rute Cardoso, the...
Novelist and husband on trial over gold looted from shipwreck
The Times
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When the French trading ship Le Prince de Conty sank in thick fog off the coast of Brittany in 1746, it was said to have been cursed. Nearly three centuries later, the legacy of the doomed vessel has brought misfortune to an elderly couple across...
Super Falcons begin hunt for 10th title
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 4, 2025
The 2025 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations kicks off on Sunday, July 6, with attention focused on Nigeria’s Super Falcons, who have made no secret of their desire to win their 10th WAFCON title in Morocco. Nigeria is pitted against Tunisia in the...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
Alleged act of vandalism may be a hate crime, East Providence officials say
The Public's Radio - Rhode Island
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July 3, 2025
Inside City Hall Wednesday, East Providence officials were hosting a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of Cape Verdean independence, when a young man dressed in black stormed into the building, allegedly determined to express his disapproval....
Music Special: Views on AI, creators' rights and IP developments
World Intellectual Property Organization
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Music and intellectual property keep evolving and took centre stage this year, from World IP Day through the General Assembly in Geneva in July. At WIPO Magazine, this theme has inspired an exceptional range of stories worthy of a special edition...
TUI forecasts strong growth for Asia as top long-haul destination for German travelers
TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific
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July 3, 2025
TUI sees Asia as a top long-haul destination this winter, led by Thailand, with major hotel expansion and rising bookings from German travelers. German travelers are showing continued enthusiasm for international travel, with Asia emerging as a...
Clash against World Cup qualifiers Iran - a true test of Harimau Malaya’s progress - Cklamovski
The Sun Daily
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July 4, 2025
HARIMAU Malaya head coach Peter Cklamovski is taking on the challenge that awaits his team at the upcoming CAFA Nations Cup, especially the clash against tournament favourites and World Cup qualifiers Iran. Describing the showdown as a major...
Florida retirees may face trial in France over sale of stolen gold from 18th-century shipwreck
The Independent
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July 4, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...