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Trump administration ordered to admit pre-screened refugees
Baptist News Global
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July 18, 2025
The Trump administration has been ordered by a federal judge to admit about 12,000 refugees whose arrival plans were canceled when the president took office in January. U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead in Seattle said his order includes...
Côte d’Ivoire’s OMOA Targets 15% Annual Growth in Cameroon with Smart ATMs
Business in Cameroon
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July 22, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Côte d’Ivoire-based Opérateur Monétique Afrique (OMOA), a firm specialized in secure payment services and transaction processing, aims to achieve at least 15% annual growth in Cameroon. The goal is driven by the rollout of...
When Herding Means Death: Northwest Nigeria’s Farmers Trapped Between Fight and Flight
HumAngle
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July 18, 2025
Late one fateful evening, Malam Muhammadu Sodangi of Tuwon Tsoro watched helplessly as armed raiders made off with the cattle, sheep, and goats belonging to his family. The livestock, including prized ploughing bulls and small ruminants raised by...
NMFL Leaders Visit Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 18, 2025
Leaders from Naval Medical Forces Atlantic, Portsmouth, VA, visited Naval Medical Readiness Logistics Command, Williamsburg, VA, and toured the facility on July 18. Visiting from Portsmouth were Capt. Chad McKenzie, Deputy Commander, Naval Medical...
A Decade in Knoxville: 2000-2009. See photos from the archives!
The Knoxville News-Sentinel - Tennessee
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Knoxville City council member Barbara Pelot, left, Mayor Victor Ashe and many other dignitaries watch the streamers fall after the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Knoxville Convention Center in 2001.Cathy Clarke/News Sentinel Archives, Knoxville...
A Tricycle Rider’s Exemplary Conduct
Leadership
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July 17, 2025
A rare example of honesty and personal integrity was demonstrated recently in Abia State, when a commercial tricycle operator, popularly called keke, returned to its rightful owner, millions of naira forgotten in his vehicle by a female passenger....
Is Greece in the middle of a new refugee crisis?
Deutsche Welle
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July 16, 2025
The rhetoric being used is martial: Thanos Plevris, Greece's recently appointed migration minister, has called the influx of refugees across the Mediterranean an "invasion." Several lawmakers from the ruling New Democracy party have used the terms...
Israel lost on the battlefield — and also in the diplomatic arena
Tehran Times
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July 2, 2025
TEHRAN – Although the Iran-Israel war began in the early hours of Friday, June 13, with the Zionist regime’s blatant aggression against Tehran—an act any fair-minded observer would condemn—it nonetheless drew mixed reactions from world leaders....
Buhari: Legacy, Foibles of the Boy from Daura
This Day
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July 14, 2025
Decades ago, from the dusty streets of Daura in northern Nigeria, a young boy named Muhammadu Buhari embarked on a journey that would ultimately shape his life and to some extent, the destiny of the nation. Emmanuel Addeh writes on the late...
Tri-border Fighting Raises Specter of Sudanese Conflict Spreading
Africa Defense Forum
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July 8, 2025
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) recently took control of the country’s northwestern corner that borders Egypt and Libya. The move could allow greater access to weapons flowing from Libya while raising the potential for Sudan’s war...
Community Land Protection Program Coordinator at SDI Calls on Actors in Land Sector to Take Advantage of NELGA Alumni Program
GNN Liberia
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July 16, 2025
Accra, Ghana: The Coordinator of the Community Land Protection Program (CLPP) at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) is calling on CSOs and individuals working in the land sector of Liberia to take advantage of the Network of Excellence on...
Coup Leaders Are Rewriting Their Playbook
Foreign Policy
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July 9, 2025
On April 12, 2025, the world watched as Gabonese citizens cast their ballots in the first presidential election since the fall of the Bongo dynasty, which had ruled the country for nearly six decades. But rather than marking a clean democratic...
Sudanese Refugees Face Aid Collapse as UNHCR Cuts $1.4 Billion in Global Assistance
teleSUR
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July 21, 2025
July 21, 2025 Hour: 5:21 pm Refugees fleeing Sudan’s escalating conflict are facing a deepening humanitarian crisis as the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) slashes $1.4 billion in aid due to a global funding shortfall. At the Sudan-Chad border, more than...
How Do You Measure Up?
Zero Hedge
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How does average penis size compare across different countries? This infographic, via Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu, maps global data on average erect penis length, offering a visual ranking of 142 countries. The data for this visualization was...
Globalist Economist Magazine Calls to ‘Scrap’ Asylum System (Then Import More Migrant Labor)
Breitbart
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July 11, 2025
Western governments should “scrap” asylum laws and instead aid migrants closer to their home countries, says The Economist, a pro-globalist site for investors. The scrapping of asylum is presented by the magazine’s London editors as a...
Sudan timeline April-June 2025: Bleak hope emerges against bloody reality of conflict
Dabanga Radio
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July 19, 2025
Reports of shelling, bombing, drone strikes, and attacks, where civilians are caught in the crossfire, continue to proliferate from the most remote villages to the major cities across the country. In the months adjacent to the second anniversary...
Muhammadu Buhari obituary
The Guardian
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July 14, 2025
The soldier and politician Muhammadu Buhari, who has died aged 82, was both military dictator and, three decades later, democratically elected president of Nigeria. His reputation as a no-nonsense general gained him lasting popularity, but also...
Former trooper academy leader sworn in as Sitka’s interim police chief
KCAW Raven Radio - Alaska
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July 8, 2025
Judge Amanda Browning swears in Chad Goeden to serve as Sitka’s interim police chief (KCAW Photo) Chad Goeden has spent 25 years working in law enforcement throughout the state, including seven leading the Alaska State Trooper Academy in Sitka. He...
Maimane laments rising rates of brutal murders in SA
SABC News
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July 17, 2025
Build One South Africa leader, Mmusi Maimane, has lamented the increasing number of brutal murders in South Africa. He says about 26 000 people were killed last year alone. Maimane says President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to take decisive action to...
Kevin Okoth: The Pessimist’s Optimist
London Review of Books
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July 10, 2025
Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony, first published in French in 2000, changed the direction of postcolonial studies. Since then, he has gained a loyal readership across the political spectrum (his admirers include Emmanuel Macron and Judith...