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Israel team to compete in FIRST global for first time
Azertag
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July 7, 2025
Baku, July 7, AZERTAC For the first time in history, the robotics team of the Youth Sponsorship Authority of Israel’s Ministry of Social Affairs has been selected to represent the State of Israel in the prestigious international FIRST Global...
Iran and Hezbollah implicated in Irish cocaine trafficking case
Iran International
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July 6, 2025
The seizure—2.2 tons of cocaine aboard the MV Matthew, a Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier—marked the largest drug bust in Irish history. The vessel was intercepted in a joint operation involving the Irish Naval Service, police and customs officers...
Rite Aid is closing 114 more stores including 40 in Pa. (list)
Penn Live - Pennsylvania
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July 6, 2025
Rite Aid’s massive collapse continues as more than 100 stores are now set to disappear. One hundred and fourteen locations are on the latest closings list that Rite Aid announced in bankruptcy filings on Thursday. Forty of the stores are located...
DP World inks Syrian port concession
Seatrade Maritime News
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July 14, 2025
The UAE-based Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Syria’s General Authority for Land and Sea Ports on the Port of Tartus project. Syria and DP World signed the MoU as President Trump announced lifting of sanction on...
Championship round-up as Hull City's rivals set furious transfer pace
Hull Live
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July 7, 2025
There is just over five weeks to go until the new Championship season gets under way. Second tier clubs have started to ramp up their transfer business. Although Hull City are now operating under a three window transfer fee restriction, the Tigers...
Australia’s Albanese to address Darwin Port sale on China visit
South China Morning Post
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July 7, 2025
When Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrives in China next week for his second official visit, he will have more than the typical diplomatic niceties to discuss with President Xi Jinping. A major task on Albanese’s agenda, besides...
Celtic icon, Jamaica star, ex-Man Utd prospect - Stoke City's Championship rivals set hot transfer pace
Stoke-on-Trent Live
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July 7, 2025
It’s been a busy few days for Championship clubs in the transfer market as the summer strengthening gathers pace in the division. Mark Robins has been the most active over the weekend when he drafted in two new faces as he looks to stamp his mark...
Coventry City's rivals set furious Championship transfer pace
Coventry Live
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July 7, 2025
It’s been a busy few days for Championship clubs in the transfer market as the summer strengthening gathers pace in the division. Frank Lampard has added two new faces to his Coventry City squad so far in his first big recruitment drive at the CBS...
A Brilliant Explorer Discovered America’s Greatest Sunken Treasure. Then Came the Manhunt.
Popular Mechanics
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July 3, 2025
It was late in the summer of 1988 when Tommy Thompson finally located a big rusty paddle wheel buried in ocean floor sediment. Now he was banking on an even bigger discovery: a cache of 19th-century gold worth as much as half a billion dollars. On...
Clock ticks towards Pentagon AUKUS review deadline
The Interpreter
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July 6, 2025
We could be less than a week away from a crisis in US-Australia relations. On 12 June, the Financial Times published a scoop: the Pentagon is reviewing the AUKUS agreement, a deal which includes the supply to Australia of three to five US-built...
Rural skills training drives investment, INFOTEP director urges
Dominican Today
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Santo Domingo.-At the VI Congress of the National Confederation of Trade Unions (CNUS), INFOTEP Director General Rafael Santos Badía stressed that training workers in towns outside major urban centers with technical skills is essential to attract...
Hal Brands: Trump is opening a new chapter in US foreign policy
Standard Speaker - Pennsylvania
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July 13, 2025
Nearly six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, a Trump Doctrine is coming into view. Contrary to the fears of his critics, and the hopes of some admirers, Trump is no isolationist. And contrary to those who claim Trump is simply a marvel of ac...
“Alligator Alcatraz” nonsense making the news in the UK.
Panama Now Online
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July 4, 2025
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/panama-trump-florida-guatemala-kristi-noem-b2778502.html The Homeland Security secretary is praising Florida for coming forward with an idea that’s been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” because it would house...
Boarded up shops and overflowing bins. Sorry state of the gateway to the world's most prestigious tennis tournament
Daily Mail
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July 6, 2025
The train draws to a halt with a sharp squeal, causing an elderly tennis fan in a panama hat to curse. ‘At least we made it though, darling,’ says his wife, patting his arm. She has a point. It’s Friday lunchtime at Southfields Tube station, the...
How China's arsenal of weapons could be a threat to the US
Daily Mail
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July 9, 2025
It looks like a regular shipping container, loaded aboard a cargo ship sailing up Mexico's west coast from the Chinese-run mega-port at Manzanillo. But beneath the corrugated steel lurks a cruise missile launcher and a fleet of combat drones,...
W88: A deep dive into Sunderland’s new and mysterious principal sponsor
Roker Report
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July 2, 2025
With just under a year remaining until the Premier League’s gambling sponsorship ban comes into effect, Kyril Louis-Dreyfus and company have once again turned to a mysterious gambling operator — this time in the form of W88 — but who exactly are...
USA men's soccer vs. Mexico in Gold Cup Final: How to watch Sunday
The North Jersey Record - New Jersey
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It all comes down to this. It's the United States Men's National Team versus Mexico in the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Final. The USMNT took care of business with a 2-1 win over Guatemala in the semifinals, with midfielder Diego Luna scoring two goals...
US review makes the AUKUS deal look more like a lemon than a bargain
The Sydney Morning Herald
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July 10, 2025
Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size I still fail to understand why the Australian government remains committed to spending...
US unveils another sweeping package of sanctions aimed at Iran
Splash 247
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July 4, 2025
The US has escalated its crackdown on Iran’s shadow oil trade, unveiling a sweeping set of sanctions against dozens of entities and vessels linked to the illicit transportation and sale of billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil, some of which...
I Remember It, Well….
Dissident Voice
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July 5, 2025
Fame is fleeting. We may be a Facebook celebrity today with ‘likes’ in the six digits, only to find as time goes by that the balance is shifting daily as we fade into the oblivion from which we emerged. Pretty much the same phenomenon is...