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Rethinking rainwater
WellBeing Magazine
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July 2, 2025
Explore how sponge cities, rain gardens and depaving help manage rainwater and restore nature to our increasingly urban spaces. Many years ago, Joni Mitchell sang about developers paving paradise and putting up a parking lot. Today, it is becoming...
Italy halts outdoor work as Europe gripped by record temperatures
Euro Weekly News
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July 2, 2025
Passerby cools head in Rome fountain. Credit: Shutterstock More than half of Italy’s regions, including Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, have banned outdoor work during the hottest hours of the day as Europe grapples with one of the most intense...
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...
UN Members Should Renew Expert on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
Human Rights Watch
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July 3, 2025
Next week, the United Nations Human Rights Council will vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. UN member states should support this...
Crete wildfire forces 5,000 to evacuate as Europe heatwave continues
The Guardian
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July 3, 2025
A wildfire fanned by gale-force winds has forced the evacuation of about 5,000 people on the Greek island of Crete, authorities and hotel association officials have said, as large swathes of continental Europe baked in a punishing early summer...
Breach Roundup: UK NHS Links Patient Death to Ransomware Attack
Bank Information Security - New Jersey
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Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Also, O Canada, Oh Brother and More Probable Chinese Hacking Anviksha More (AnvikshaMore) • June 26, 2025 Image: Shutterstock/ISMG Every week, Information Security...
Weapons Raids and Political Targeting: What Kosovo’s Election Tension...
ImpACT International
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Kosovo’s 2025 parliamentary elections took place in a climate marked by deep political, ethnic, and socioeconomic tensions. While the process was largely peaceful, the underlying issues of minority rights, state legitimacy, and economic hardship...
Barton College announces 2025 graduates
The Wilson Times - North Carolina
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Two hundred eighty-one undergraduate seniors and graduate students received diplomas on Saturday, May 17, during Barton College’s 123rd annual commencement ceremony. Participating in the ceremony were Barton students who completed their...
UN Event Sheds Light On Belarus' Escalating Human Rights Violations
MENAFN
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July 3, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 3. On July 2, the Permanent Missions of Latvia and Lithuania to the United Nations Office at Geneva held a side event on the deteriorating human rights situation in Belarus, Trend reports. Held...
Greater urgency for digital overhaul of public services: UN Public Service Forum
Biometric Update
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July 2, 2025
Governments must ramp up the urgency of digital transformation to deliver inclusive, transparent and effective public services. That was the message from attendees at the annual UN Public Service Forum (UNPSF) hosted in Uzbekistan for the first...
Coke user who hid drugs on pregnant girlfriend and cat loving arsonist among those locked up this month in Cornwall
Cornwall Live
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June 29, 2025
From a drug dealer who involved his pregnant girlfriend to a cat-loving arsonist, it's been a varied month before Cornwall's most senior court this June. There's also the case of two deported criminals who tried to return to the UK on a yacht by...
Crash probe after Just Eat e-bike rider injured in Coventry
Coventry Live
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July 2, 2025
Police have launched an investigation after a Just Eat rider was hit by a car in Coventry. It happened at the junction of the B4098 and Upper Well Street. Medics were called after a man was knocked off his e-bike at around 6.40pm on Monday (June...
Trump’s ‘remigration’ talk isn’t just rhetoric
The Antelope Valley Press - California
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Even now, six months into President Trump’s second term, there’s a tendency to disregard President Trump’s sometimes fiery rhetoric as mere big talk. Americans ought to know better by now. Iranians certainly do, after Trump sent bunker bombs into...
Politico: Lethal Heat Is Europe’s New Climate Reality with Thousands at Risk
To Vima
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July 1, 2025
Europe is facing a deadly new climate challenge as a severe heatwave grips Southern Europe, pushing temperatures beyond 40 degrees Celsius and putting thousands of lives at risk over the coming days, according to experts. Southern Europe is...
Trump on 'remigration:' Heed the rhetoric | Thomas Elias
Lompoc Record - California
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Even now, six months into President Trump’s second term, there’s a tendency to disregard President Trump’s sometimes fiery rhetoric as mere big talk. Americans ought to know better by now. Iranians certainly do, after Trump sent bunker bombs into...
10 Best Places to Retire in Europe
WTOP - District Columbia
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June 30, 2025
If your retirement dream is to live in one of the grand old cities of Europe, it can be difficult to narrow your options. If your retirement dream is to live in one of the grand old cities of Europe, it can be difficult to narrow your options....
On Sustainable Population Growth: Human Values
The Good Men Project - California
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July 1, 2025
“Population growth can exacerbate environmental degradation when it increases pressure on natural resources and generates more waste and emissions. Sustainable development requires policies that balance population trends with economic growth,...
What it takes to wear the crown, according to Bb. Pilipinas 2025 queens
Philstar
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July 1, 2025
The circle of Binibining Pilipinas 2025 winners is an embodiment of Pinay pulchritude and personality. Bb. Pilipinas International Katrina Anne Johnson, Bb. Pilipinas Globe Annabelle Mae McDonell, first runner-up Dalia Khattab and second runner-up...
Coundon Court FC secures 25-year lease of city pitches and says 'huge opportunity'
Coventry Live
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July 2, 2025
Coundon Court FC has secured a long-term lease of pitches at Coundon Hall Park in Coventry. Secretary Barry Morris worked with Coventry City Council on the project, which he described as a 'huge opportunity.' Coundon Court FC is set to take on a...
Criminal Threat Convergence Must Be Elevated as a National Security Urgency
Small Wars Journal
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June 25, 2025
We must move with greater urgency to confront criminal threat convergence. The cartels and some TCOs in Latin America have greater power and political influence through market diversification, networked-alliances, and coercive aggression in the...