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Chile Welcomes an Unexpected Contender as A Beloved Actor with Down Syndrome Seeks the Presidency
LatinAmerican Post
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August 19, 2025
Chile’s presidential race, shaped by bitter extremes, suddenly has a new voice. Sebastián Solorza, a 43-year-old actor with Down syndrome and a national following, is fighting to collect signatures to run as an independent—offering empathy,...
L.A. student seized by immigration agents alleges they bragged of $1,500 arrest payment
The Daily Pilot - Calfornia
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August 20, 2025
A Reseda high school student who was arrested by immigration agents Aug. 8 and is being held in a detention facility told a former teacher that he overheard the masked men who seized him brag among themselves that they would receive $1,500 for his...
GRA to launch nationwide tax education campaign for informal sector
CNR Citi Newsroom
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August 20, 2025
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is preparing to launch a nationwide tax education campaign targeting the informal sector by the end of 2025. The initiative aims to simplify complex tax concepts into clear, practical language to improve...
Ron Clark speaks to educators at Pressley Ridge
CBS 2 Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania
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A nationally known educator who helps schools implement his innovative teaching methods visited Pittsburgh today. One local program is giving the highly praised Ron Clark Academy a try. KDKA-TV's Chilekasi Adele spoke with him.
Chile: Presidential candidate Jeannette Jara on regional tour
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 19, 2025
The tour by the standard-bearer of the leftist, progressive, social democratic, and Christian democratic parties begins in Valparaíso, will include visits to 28 cities, and will end in Santiago, the capital. Among her programmatic guidelines, a...
Chile Confronts Colonia Dignidad’s Past as Villa Baviera Faces Expropriation
LatinAmerican Post
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August 19, 2025
Beneath the chalet roofs and alpine façades of Villa Baviera, the earth hides a legacy too violent to erase. Once, Colonia Dignidad served as a cult, a torture chamber, and a dictatorship’s ally. Now Chile must decide: commerce, or memory. A...
Chile wants teen pilot out of Antarctica. He says he's 'stuck' there
RNZ
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August 19, 2025
Ethan Guo, now 19, has been flying around the world solo in his 50-year-old Cessna 182. Photo: Instagram When Ethan Guo embarked on a mission to become the first person to fly solo to all seven continents, there was no telling how his journey...
Most LGBTQ Friendly Countries In 2025
AOL
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Not every country treats LGBTQ+ people with equal respect, and in various places, progress has even reversed. Yet some nations continue building inclusive policies, forming public opinion, and creating safer communities. They don’t all look the...
LTO Hatch Chile Fest at Blue Goose Cantina
Focus Daily News - Texas
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August 18, 2025
I was excited to combine two of my favorite things–Hatch Chile season and brunch–at Blue Goose Cantina in Grand Prairie last Saturday. Hatch Chile Peppers are grown in Hatch Valley, New Mexico, but they’ve been enthusiastically adopted by Tex-Mex...
Chile wants teen pilot and influencer out of Antarctica but he says he's 'stuck' there
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 18, 2025
When Ethan Guo embarked on a mission to become the first person to fly solo to all seven continents, there was no telling how his journey would unfold. Packing a survival kit, a satellite phone, and five changes of clothes into his 50-year-old...
LaVergne Community Church unites nations in onsite worship in five languages
Baptist Press - Tennessee
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August 18, 2025
LA VERGNE, Tenn. (BP) – Worshipers sang “Santo por siempre,” translated “Holy forever,” as worship pastor Javier Chirinos led praise Aug. 17 during the 11:30 a.m. Spanish language service at La Vergne Community Church. Non-Spanish speakers joined...
Analysis: Iran’s web of terror and propaganda: The case of Al Mustafa University
Long War Journal
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August 19, 2025
An announcement from the Centro Islamico Imam al Mahdi do Dialogo Brasil (CIADB) (São Paulo) of a commemoration event for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and all “martyrs of the Resistance” on the day of Nasrallah’s funeral. The center is run by...
Record Number of Submissions for Sanfic’s Santiago Lab, as Chilean Project Market Builds International Profile
Variety
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August 18, 2025
The Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic) reported 98.39% more applications this year to its fiction and documentary labs from some 32 countries. Out of 240 applications, 16 fiction projects and 15 documentaries were selected. “Unlike...
California high school senior walking the family dog is arrested by immigration officers
East Bay Times - California
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August 18, 2025
An 18-year-old Van Nuys resident who was taken into custody by federal immigration officers while walking his dog has spent the past week in a detention facility reportedly so cramped that his cellmates can’t all sit or lie down at the same time,...
Youth activist calls for probe into potential human trafficking scheme targetting African girls
Zambia Reports
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August 18, 2025
By Richard Lamu “I applied for the Alabuga Start Programme but with what I have read so far, I am having second thoughts; I don’t think I would go if they accept me,” 21-year-old Chileshe (not her real name) told Zambia Reports. A graduate of...
Mexico: Solidarity with indigenous woman defender Silvia Pérez Yescas
International Federation for Human Rights
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August 18, 2025
Abie Anongos, CWEARC, Philippines Abigail Severo Vásquez, Colectiva Ayuuk Toxëjk, Mexico Adolfina Kuum Dolie, Komunitas Peduli Lingkungan, Indonesia Adv Muhammad Bux, Sukaar Welfare Organization, Pakistan Agnes Kharshiing, Civil Society Women...
I-Drive hotel residents evacuated over safety concerns, UCF incorporates AI into education and saying goodbye to Rip Ride Rockit
Spectrum News 13 - Florida
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August 18, 2025
Good morning, Central Florida. Here's what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner As the afternoon goes on, we'll heat up into the lower 90s and heat index values around 100 to 105 degrees. That heat and humidity will help fuel our seabreeze...
Meet the actor with Down Syndrome who wants to run for Chile president
The Indian Express
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August 18, 2025
Sebastián Solorza is already a familiar face to many Chileans, having starred in a popular Netflix series and won national acting awards. Now, the 43-year-old actor with Down syndrome wants to enter the race for president in Chile’s national...
Chilean actor with Down syndrome seeks to join presidential race
NBC Connecticut
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August 17, 2025
Sebastián Solorza is already a familiar face to many Chileans, having starred in a popular Netflix series and won national acting awards. Now, the 43-year-old actor with Down syndrome wants to enter the race for president in Chile’s national...
lifestyle A blooming garden in the 'driest' place on earth: Chasing Desierto Florido
Asiaone
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August 17, 2025
You step off the bus near Copiapó, the air smells of wet dust and salt. The hills look sun-scorched until your eyes catch on the vast sea of blooms. The Atacama, one of Earth's driest non-polar deserts, only blooms when rare rains wake seeds that...