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Trump's global tariff pause is supposed to expire Wednesday. What's at stake for Canada?
CBC/Radio-Canada
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July 6, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's three-month pause on his sweeping global tariffs is set to expire in just a few days. Ahead of the deadline, some trade experts say Canada still faces big risks, despite avoiding that round of levies back in April....
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,...
Trump's global tariff pause expires Wednesday. What's at stake for Canada?
CBC/Radio-Canada
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July 6, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's three-month pause on his sweeping global tariffs is set to expire in just a few days. Ahead of the deadline, some trade experts say Canada still faces big risks, despite avoiding that round of levies back in April....
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...
The world could get carved up into these 3 blocs as Trump tariffs accelerate deglobalization
Fortune
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The era of lower trade barriers and greater economic interdependence is waning, and President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade war is further stoking that trend. Economists at Wells Fargo recently sketched out a hypothetical scenario where the...
Goal and Highlights: Rayadas 0-1 Pachuca in Campeon de Campeonas
VAVEL
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July 17, 2025
⏱️97' End of broadcast It's over! Pachuca is crowned Champion of Champions! After a great game where they managed to put on a great performance and prevent any dangerous plays by the Rayadas, they managed to lift this Cup, the third women's team...
The Transnational Phenomenon of Drug Trafficking
Police Chief Magazine
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July 1, 2025
Drug trafficking is a highly complex, transnational, and constantly changing criminal practice, posing continuous and substantial challenges to public security forces. This is a phenomenon that directly affects institutional stability, public...
Challenging the Media Myth of Latino Machismo
Dissident Voice
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July 14, 2025
by Roger D. Harris, Becca Renk, and John Perry / July 14th, 2025 Patriarchy is alive and well throughout the world. But the English-language media flatters itself by one-sidedly portraying machismo as a particularly Latin American malady, all the...
William Brown: The Irishman Who Was The Father of the Argentine Navy
[your]NEWS
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July 16, 2025
Recently, I learned that the Irish navy spent €26 million on two naval ships acquired from New Zealand, which were later assessed as “not fit for purpose.” This prompted me to reflect on an Irishman from County Mayo who, through remarkable...
Greeks Arrest Cartel Importing Containers of Cattle Hides Soaked in Cocaine
The Maritime Executive
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The Greek Police announced the arrest of 11 individuals involved in an elaborate smuggling operation shipping containers from South America filled with raw cattle hides. The police said it was the first time they had dismantled a criminal...
10 Epic Eco-Friendly Trips, from Tracking Snow Leopards in India to Seeing the Greenland Ice Sheet
AFAR
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July 14, 2025
Traveling can be enlightening, transformative, and joyous—but it can also come with a heavy environmental cost. From carbon emissions produced by flights to all the various disposable plastics that travelers may encounter during their trips, it’s...
Rain-swollen rivers shut down key dams, raising fears of power instability
The Cuenca Dispatch
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July 7, 2025
Despite temporary shutdowns of key hydroelectric plants, government reassures citizens, but experts warn of system vulnerabilities. On July 3, 2025, the Ministry of Energy announced that eight of Ecuador’s crucial hydroelectric plants were...
Challenging the Media Myth of Latino Machismo: Recognizing Feminist Strides in Latin America
Pressenza
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July 15, 2025
Patriarchy is alive and well throughout the world. But the English-language media flatters itself by one-sidedly portraying machismo as a particularly Latin American malady, all the while overlooking significant feminist gains made in the region....
To change the environment, change the narrative
Mongabay
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July 15, 2025
Narratives help shape our society, culture and environment, entrenching beliefs that can help — or harm — our planet and human rights. Tsering Yangzom Lama, story manager at Greenpeace International, joins Mongabay’s podcast to explain how...
Personal Belgians
n+1
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July 14, 2025
You can tell men’s cycling isn’t a serious sport because the “Big Six” athletes come from four small nations—Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Slovenia—with a combined population of 38 million. Meet the rogues’ gallery of minor European...
“Justice is more than just a judgment” An interview with the President of the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Judge Graciela Gatti Santana
EJIL: Talk!
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July 14, 2025
On 19 March 2025, I interviewed Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (the ‘IRMCT’ or ‘Mechanism’). It was a wide-ranging conversation in which we discussed, among...
Major Storm on the Horizon: NCDs and mental health conditions to cost South America trillions by 2050
Pan American Health Organization
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July 15, 2025
Washington D.C., 15 July 2025 (PAHO) – Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health conditions will cost South America over US$ 7.3 trillion in lost productivity and healthcare spending between 2020 and 2050, according to estimations in a new...
Trump Flunks the Kitchen Test
The New Yorker
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July 14, 2025
Occasionally, you might find yourself hungry in Somerset County, New Jersey, on, say, a Monday at around lunchtime. Where to eat? A couple of local establishments have recently gotten a lot of buzz. One, Trump National, the President’s golf club...
Desarticulan en Costa Rica presunta red de trata de personas que estuvo vinculada al Tren de Aragua
KESQ-TV - California
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July 16, 2025
Por Djenane Villanueva, CNN en Español Las autoridades de Costa Rica desarticularon una banda delictiva presuntamente dedicada a la trata de personas que obligaba a mujeres venezolanas a prostituirse y que podría tener vínculos con el Tren de...
3 of the best indie games from the first half of 2025
T3
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July 15, 2025
There are so many indie games released every year that keeping tabs on them all is nearly impossible, and as we’ve just passed the halfway point in 2025, now is a good time to take stock and look back on all the great stuff we’ve been able to play...