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Which countries have rabies? How to avoid disease after woman dies following Morocco holiday
Metro
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June 19, 2025
Rabies can be fatal if it is not treated immediately (Picture: Getty Images) A British woman has died of rabies after she was ‘scratched’ by a puppy while on holiday in Morocco. Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, had what has been...
Brazil: Education leaders from around the world call for stronger public education systems
Education International
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November 7, 2024
Teachers, union leaders, and legislators from eleven countries came together in Fortaleza, Brazil, for the Global Education Seminar, a two-day event held to coincide with the G20 Education Ministers’ Meeting. The event served as a platform to...
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....
The moment I knew: I was an activist out at sea – but all I wanted was to go home and marry Aaron
The Guardian
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November 9, 2024
The last thing I expected to see at a Melbourne vegan festival was a tall, dark and handsome man wearing a rugby union guernsey. I smiled at him and went about my day, grateful I’d worn my eating pants as I munched my way from food truck to food...
On recent heatwave in Africa!
The Point
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Scientists from World Weather Attribution, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and Climate Central found that climate change had also doubled the number of heatwaves in the world. The research also identified 67 extreme heat events that...
Carolina Cerqueira in Cape Verde for independence celebrations
Ver Angola
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In Cape Verde, the parliamentary leader, who left the country this Thursday, was received by the Angolan ambassador, Agostinho Tavares, and by the first secretary of the National Assembly of Cape Verde, according to a statement from the National...
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...
Gambia Joins State Parties to celebrate Intangible Cultural Heritage International Day
The Voice Gambia
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October 18, 2024
Following the decision of the 42nd Session of the General Conference of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in November 2023, which proclaimed 17th October as the International Day of the Intangible Cultural...
Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations
The Intercept
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Trump administration could resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own without any chance to object on the grounds that they might be tortured. This may clear a legal path for the...
JIS Promotes Gender Equality in Prîncipe
International Judo Foundation
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The Judo Global Association of Sao Tomé and Prîncipe has successfully completed the training of PE teachers as part of the ‘Judo in Schools - Promoting Gender Equality Through Sport’ project. This innovative initiative aims to introduce judo into...
Double Weekend Celebration of Lusophone Cultures and Communities
Macau Business
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October 12, 2024
The much-anticipated annual celebration of Portuguese-speaking communities returns to the Taipa Houses, offering a two-weekend cultural extravaganza brimming with music, food, and vibrant cultural experiences First launched in 1998, the Lusofonia...
Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa is affected
The Conversation
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July 2, 2025
A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world’s people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...
“Portugal needs immigration … in a controlled manner” – study
Portugal Resident
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October 2, 2024
Main political parties seemingly come together over immigration A study by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Porto has concluded that Portugal needs more immigration if it wants to increase its economic growth and standard of living in...
“Teach children the spiritual way of the Church”: Catholic Archbishop at Annual Marian Pilgrimage in Angola
ACI Africa
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August 22, 2024
The Local Ordinary of Malanje, who doubles as the Chairman of the National Commission for the Liturgy of the Bishops' Conference of Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (CEAST) called upon parents and guardians to “show children the right path from an...
Portuguese Celebrates Digitization of “Most-Spoken Language in Southern Hemisphere”
Language Magazine
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June 24, 2025
The theme for this year’s celebration of World Portuguese Language Day was “the promotion and dissemination of the Portuguese language and cultural diversity of CPLP (Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries) member states: from traditional...
Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa...
Modern Ghana
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A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world's people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...
Strange But True: The UK has the World’s longest country name, Here's why
Pulse
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July 1, 2025
Countries don’t always go by the names we commonly use. When we think of country names, we often picture short, familiar ones like France, Brazil, or Japan. But beyond these common names lie the full, official names of these countries, many of...
Could Anything Be More Bigoted Than Trump’s Travel Bans?
The American Prospect
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June 23, 2025
In her early nineties, my mother had emergency surgery to remove her gallbladder, which had somehow managed to flip over and begun to rot. The physician who performed the surgery—from which she recovered completely—was an Iranian immigrant. I was...
Why were two of Boris Becker's children not invited to his wedding? Mystery after tennis star failed to tell the son, 14, and daughter, 24, he's 'so proud of' that he was getting married
Daily Mail
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September 30, 2024
As Boris Becker stood waiting to greet his new bride at the top of aisle at his third wedding, he was proudly flanked by not one, but two best men. The tennis legend was supported by his two sons Noah, 30, and Elias, 25, as his bride, Lilian de...
How far Nigeria don reach to change Donald Trump ban bifor di 60 days deadline?
GhanaWeb
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July 1, 2025
Recently, President Donald Trump administration don announce say dem go soon enforce rules wey go block citizens from Nigeria, Ghana and 34 oda nations from entering di United States, even if dem get valid visa or to stay back afta di 60 days...