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Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Growing succulents in containers
Monterey Herald - California
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July 12, 2025
Argentine ball (Deuterocohnia brevifolia). This terrestrial succulent forms dense mounds (called pollsters) composed of 1-inch-wide rosettes of sharp-tipped triangular leaves. The leaves have tiny teeth along the margin and are covered with...
Child Sex Predator Stefan Andrés Correa Sentenced to Life in Prison in US for Crimes in Medellín
Finance Colombia
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July 7, 2025
The US Federal Court has sentenced Stefan Andrés Correa, 42, a dual Ecuadorian-US citizen, to life in prison. He was found guilty of leading a systematic network of sexual abuse and exploitation of girls in Medellín. The sentence relates to the...
The best hotels in Mexico for design, beaches and all-out luxury – reviewed for 2025
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 8, 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...
From Concorde To Jaguar Fighter Jets — UK-France Alliance Deepens With Storm Shadow & Nuclear Pact
The Eurasian Times
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July 13, 2025
Building on their decades-old cooperation, France and the United Kingdom committed to ordering more Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles and advancing work on the successor to this weapon on July 10. This is part of a new, refreshed agreement signed...
BRICS Envoys Flock to Rio
Foreign Policy
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July 4, 2025
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Brazil readies to host the BRICS leaders’ summit, Bolivia embraces cryptocurrency amid an economic crisis, and Mercosur notches a new trade deal. Brazil Prepares to...
Chelsea, Estevao and the race for Brazil's best: 'Stockpiling', smart or both?
The Athletic
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July 8, 2025
The scene, as Chelsea’s players flocked to Estevao at the final whistle at Lincoln Financial Field, was telling. There was a language barrier between them, but Cole Palmer and Liam Delap asked their Portuguese team-mate Dario Essugo to tell the...
Mall del Alto to Redefine Cuenca’s Retail Landscape
The Cuenca Dispatch
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July 7, 2025
Members receive weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Start your subscription today for just $1 for the first month. (Regular subscription options $4.99/month or $42/year/) Click here to subscribe. New shopping center...
How The IMF Prevents Global Bitcoin Adoption (And Why They Do It)
Bitcoin Magazine - Tennessee
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June 27, 2025
The Global Pattern In recent years the IMF has: Successfully pressured El Salvador to (de facto) drop Bitcoin as legal tender, and rollback other Bitcoin policies Successfully pressured CAR’s 2023 Bitcoin repeal through regional banking bodies...
OpenID forms group to address silos between AI and identity communities
Biometric Update
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July 7, 2025
The OpenID Foundation has launched an Artificial Intelligence Identity Management Community Group to tackle emerging gaps between AI platforms and identity standards. As AI reshapes everything from social media to financial services, the...
Cool books for a hot summer
Yale Climate Connections - Connecticut
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July 11, 2025
In May, we gave you a head start on your summer reading list with our bookshelf on the nine British novels that contended for the Climate Fiction Prize. (“And So I Roar” by Abi Dare took the prize.) Now we have 12 more titles for you to consider:...
OpenID forms group to address silos between ID and identity communities
Biometric Update
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July 7, 2025
The OpenID Foundation has launched an Artificial Intelligence Identity Management Community Group to tackle emerging gaps between AI platforms and identity standards. As AI reshapes everything from social media to financial services, the...
ICE arrests have tripled across the West. Inside the reasons and the costs
Deseret News - Utah
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July 11, 2025
Monthly ICE arrests in Utah and neighboring states have tripled since Trump entered office. The arrests have increasingly targeted unauthorized immigrants without a criminal record. By June, ICE was arresting 4,000 immigrants a week with no...
The Invisible Web of Influence: How China’s Criminal Networks Are Expanding Across Latin America – PART I
Dialogo Magazine
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July 11, 2025
In an eye-opening interview with Diálogo, Leland Lazarus, a leading expert on China-Latin America relations and transnational crime and founder and CEO of Lazarus Consulting firm, discussed the alarming rise of Chinese organized crime networks in...
Cuenca’s First Overpasses: A New Era for Traffic Management
The Cuenca Dispatch
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July 7, 2025
Members receive weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Start your subscription today for just $1 for the first month. (Regular subscription options $4.99/month or $42/year/) Click here to subscribe. The $36.2 million...
Mastercard launches luxury biometric metal credit card in Bangladesh
Biometric Update
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July 7, 2025
Mastercard and Eastern Bank have teamed up to introduce Bangladesh’s first biometric metal credit card. The biometric credit card is part of the high-end World Elite Mastercard portfolio and embeds a fingerprint sensor into its metal body,...
ICE abducts student in New York City as anti-immigrant campaign intensifies
World Socialist Web Site
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July 7, 2025
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents continue their outrageous and illegal behavior at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan as they arrest immigrants after judicial hearings on their status in the United States. Despite frequent protests by...
Working conditions in Spain's tourism sector: precariousness and exhausting working hours
Equal Times
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July 11, 2025
In several regions of Spain, as in other European countries, tourism seems to have reached a turning point. Although the discontent with mass tourism in coastal areas or cities such as Barcelona has been intensifying over the last decade, it was...
World Cup betting guide: Strategies for every major FIFA Tournament
Syracuse.com - New York
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July 11, 2025
The FIFA World Cup is soccer’s most prestigious tournament, captivating fans every four years and drawing bettors from around the globe. With national teams vying for glory across group stages and knockout rounds, the event offers a rich array of...
Hacia una conservación basada en derechos y construcción colectiva
Forests News
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July 10, 2025
Durante décadas, los esfuerzos de conservación a nivel global se centraron en establecer Áreas Naturales Protegidas (ANP) con un enfoque de protección estricta. Esto, en muchos casos, se hizo sin una participación plena de las poblaciones en esos...
How China's arsenal of weapons could be a threat to the US
Daily Mail
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July 9, 2025
It looks like a regular shipping container, loaded aboard a cargo ship sailing up Mexico's west coast from the Chinese-run mega-port at Manzanillo. But beneath the corrugated steel lurks a cruise missile launcher and a fleet of combat drones,...