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Civil Society Urges Gov’t To Regulate Marketing Of Unhealthy Foods To Children
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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July 1, 2025
By David Mwanje Uganda— In a bold stand against the creeping tide of diet-related diseases, a coalition of civil society organizations SEATINI-Uganda, CEFROHT, CONSENT-Uganda, and FIAN-Uganda has issued a clarion call to revolutionize Uganda’s...
Communist wins Chile’s left-wing presidential primary
Washington Examiner
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June 30, 2025
Chilean communist Jeannette Jara defeated her center-left rival to win the presidential nomination for Chile’s left-wing coalition in a landslide.Jara secured over 60% of the vote, signaling the Chilean Left’s commitment to shift even further left...
Honoring LGBTQIA+ Cannabis Trailblazers: A Pride Month Reflection
NORML
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June 30, 2025
Introduction: A Coalition of Pride and Cannabis Law Reform In the struggle for cannabis legalization, one essential thread is often overlooked: the deep historical alliance between LGBTQIA+ activists and the marijuana reform movement. From the...
President Cyril Ramaphosa Arrives In Brazil To Participate In XVII BRICS Summit
MENAFN
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July 6, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo President Cyril Ramaphosa will, at the invitation of His Excellency Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, attend the XVII BRICS Summit from 6 to 7 July 2025 in...
How Indigenous field hockey is reviving Mapuche culture
The Real News Network
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June 30, 2025
Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people have played their own version of field hockey for countless generations. Roughly 2 million Mapuche Indigenous people live across Chile and Argentina. Many have moved from their ancestral lands to the city. But...
Israeli science joins a global effort: Axiom’s Ax-4 mission
Ynet
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July 6, 2025
A private mission with an Israeli touch Axiom Space’s fourth private mission, Ax-4, launched on June 25 after a series of delays. On June 26, the Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), where its four crew...
Morocco Steps Up Efforts in Battle Against Cultural Property Trafficking
Morocco World News
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June 30, 2025
Berlin — Morocco has taken decisive action to confront the illegal trade of cultural property. The announcement came Monday in Rabat, where Minister of Youth, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, opened the work of an international conference dedicated to the...
Chilean club with link to Celtic fans offers message of hope against horrors in Gaza
Irish Mirror
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June 28, 2025
JOSÉ Nabzo turns his laptop around. The view switches from a small club office to the empty stands of the Estadio Municipal de La Cisterna near Santiago and the Andes Mountains. “Now it’s very quiet, it’s Monday, but on match day the Palestinian...
Alfonso Undurraga re-elected as president of Wines of Chile
The Drinks Business
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June 30, 2025
Alfonso Undurraga will lead the trade body for a second term until 2027 and announces plans to embark on a global campaign based on “the audacity and daring spirit” of Chile’s winemakers. Following his re-election as president of Wines of Chile,...
Peru Mourns death of Chilean journalist Miguel Humberto
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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June 30, 2025
The press man was “A legendary voice that accompanied us in key moments of our history,” said journalist Carlos Villarreal, who worked for Aguirre at Radio Programas del Perú (RPP). Aguirre, who in his native land was a collaborator of President...
Coming home to Canada: Immigrant stories take centre stage
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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June 30, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News 'Welcome to My Country' features memories and monologues from people who immigrated to Canada and put down roots in Saskatoon. (from left) Ohad Winkler, Priscila Cabildo, Yurii Kolotylyn, Lataro Reyes and...
SoVerA presents Astronomy for Children
The Vermont Journal & The Shopper
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June 30, 2025
REGION – Please join SoVerA on Tuesday, July 8, at 7 p.m., for a presentation by Smith College professor Meg Thatcher. This will be an online meeting at www.zoom.us/j/94691230307. Thatcher writes for youngsters ages 5 and up, for 12 years. She has...
Jeannette Jara’s Landslide Victory Shakes Up Chilean Presidential Primaries
teleSUR
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Jeannette Jara. X/ @carmen_hertz June 30, 2025 Hour: 8:56 am With more than 60% of the vote on Sunday, Jeannette Jara — a member of the Communist Party and former labor minister under President Gabriel Boric — swept the progressive primaries and...
Communist Jara wins Chilean ruling party's presidential primaries
MercoPress
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Monday, June 30th 2025 - 08:22 UTC Jara was Boric's labor minister between March 11, 2022, and April 7, 2025 Communist activist and former Labor Minister Jeannette Jara won the Chilean ruling party’s presidential primary Sunday with 60.16% of the...
Brazil endorses Spain's declaration in favor of LGBTQIA+ rights
MercoPress
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Monday, June 30th 2025 - 09:06 UTC The endorsement shows Brazil's commitment to promoting equality and combating discrimination Brazil joined a declaration proposed by Spain, alongside 14 other countries, including Colombia, Australia, and Canada,...
Argentina and Chile new economic superpowers? Vicuña mineral discovery marks largest copper, gold, and silver find
The Economic Times
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June 30, 2025
Vicuña Mineral Resource unveiled in AndesA major mineral discovery in the Andes Mountains may significantly alter the trajectory of mining in South America. Geologists have identified one of the largest deposits of copper, gold, and silver in the...
'A vision for culture, ecology, technology'
The Ecologist
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June 30, 2025
Francesca Bria, digital policy expert and member of the NEB high-level roundtable opened the summit with the growing list of challenges and crises of our times: systemic transformation and upheaval, climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse,...
Portugal ranked the world’s 2nd funniest country
The Portugal News
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The research surveyed over 6,000 participants across 31 countries, evaluating four distinct humour styles: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-deprecating. Topping the list is the Czech Republic, known for its dry wit,...
Beyond Pride: gender liberation in the global south
Red Pepper
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June 29, 2025
Every June, rainbow flags bloom like seasonal flowers. ‘Pride Month’ marks the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City but now arrives with sponsored parades, social media campaigns, and institutional performances of allyship...
Chile targets fast fashion waste with landmark desert cleanup plan
The Guardian
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June 26, 2025
In a dusty corner of the Atacama Desert, the driest non-polar region on Earth, mounds of used clothes are scattered across the sand, where they sit, bleached and tattered, under the sun. As the sea mist drifts over a high coastal plateau above the...