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Australians join the rush to buy the world’s most expensive cruise ship suite
Cruise Passenger
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July 17, 2025
Regent Seven Seas Prestige Sky Suite is the biggest at sea. At $40,000 a night, it’s also the most expensive. Yet half have already sold – and the ship doesn’t sail until December 2026. Australians have joined the world-wide rush to book Regent...
Gardaí investigate suspected brothels in Limerick as part of global operation
Limerick Post
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July 18, 2025
GARDAÍ made a sweep on suspected brothels operating in Limerick, along with every major town and city in Ireland, as part of an operation global chain targeting human trafficking and exploitation. Between June 1 and 6, An Garda Síochána, in...
Woccu sets out new strategy for credit union sector at global conference
Co-Operative News
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July 17, 2025
More than 2,000 credit union professionals from nearly 60 countries have gathered for the World Credit Union Conference (WCUC), where they will look at the organisation’s new global strategy and the realities of a post-USAID world. Michael...
A roundtable across 18,000 kilometers sparks broad attention through its exchange of thoughts and global perspectives
Global Times
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The "Global Times Overseas China Week and Global South Dialogue: Roundtable Forum of China-Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries" is held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 25, 2025 of local time. Photo: Liu Yang/GTThe "Global Times...
The real story of how L.A. became the epicenter of America’s homeless crisis
Los Angeles Times
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July 10, 2025
As a teenager in the late 1970s, Steve Richardson was sweeping and stocking shelves at a toy store on the edge of L.A.’s Skid Row when he noticed the first signs of a monumental change in the city. Day after day, workers, hired from the...
Dining Solo at Sea: Here’s What I Ate on a 19-Day Luxury Cruise
Saveur
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July 8, 2025
When I boarded a cruise ship at Long Beach Pier earlier this year for a 19-day solo trip through the Panama Canal, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I’d traveled on other cruise lines before and had recently toured one of Seabourn’s other ships....
Phillippi Creek remains ignored. Will it flood again?
Sarasota Herald Tribune - Florida
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Phillippi Creek work remains undone Nearly a year ago Phillippi Creek overflowed its banks, flooding dozens of homes, causing hundreds to evacuate and forcing others to be rescued by boat. The creek water level also rose over bridges at Bahia...
8 things we should all learn from the Coldplay Kiss Cam situation (allegedly) between Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot
TheGrio
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July 18, 2025
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. One of the worst things that can ever happen to cheaters is a slow news week, but that’s the situation that Astronomer...
Cropped 16 July 2025: EU deforestation law pushback; Agri emissions; US lobster disease
Carbon Brief
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July 16, 2025
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. Forests...
How the Athlone Air Ambulance was key to huge cocaine seizure
Westmeath Independent
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The recent convictions of eight men for their roles in trying to smuggle the largest cocaine seizure in Irish history has shone the spotlight once again on the remarkable involvement of the Athlone-based air ambulance helicopter in the operation....
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NRV News - Virginia
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July 18, 2025
Over the last few weeks, there have been big legislative wins for the nation. For me, one of these wins is the signing, at last, of the HALT Fentanyl Act. Along with Congressman Bob Latta, we began the quest in 2021 to permanently designate...
Strategic Partnerships: Costa Rica’s Answers to New Threats
Dialogo Magazine
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July 17, 2025
Costa Rica’s Vice Minister of Special Investigation Units of the Ministry of Public Security Manuel Jiménez Steller brings a strong background in criminal law and extensive prosecutorial experience to his crucial role. Having led complex organized...
The world could get carved up into these 3 blocs as Trump tariffs accelerate deglobalization
Fortune
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The era of lower trade barriers and greater economic interdependence is waning, and President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade war is further stoking that trend. Economists at Wells Fargo recently sketched out a hypothetical scenario where the...
Turning Back the Pages - July 17, 2025
The Lakeville Journal - Connecticut
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July 16, 2025
125 years ago — July 1900 D.R. Spalding of Falls Village, who was eighty six years old July 4, does all the raking on 200 acres of meadow land. The selectmen of Norfolk are going to see that all unregistered dogs are killed. A large black bear was...
Canadian firm halts missions following African mine death
MENAFN
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July 8, 2025
(MENAFN) Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals has paused operations at one of its Trident project sites in Zambia after a fatal dump truck accident claimed the life of an employee. The incident occurred at the Sentinel copper mine,...
India announces initiatives to boost domestic copper production
Mining Technology
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July 7, 2025
India has announced a strategic plan to attract foreign companies to establish smelters and refineries within the country, according to a report by Reuters. The plan aims to enhance the country’s copper production capabilities, aiming to reduce...
First Ladies Determine Their Role in a Polarizing World—Together
Harper's Bazaar
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July 17, 2025
Amid constant warfare, climate change, a reduction in mental health across the globe, and the rapid deployment of AI, what does it mean to be a first lady? It is one of the most visible roles, with access to an international platform, and yet in...
Men deported by US to Eswatini in Africa will be held in solitary confinement for...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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In cell phone messages to The Associated Press on Thursday, Mdluli said it wasn't clear how long that would take. The men, who the U.S. says were convicted of serious crimes and were in the U.S. illegally, are citizens of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba,...
The USMNT's to-do list before the 2026 World Cup, ranked by urgency
ESPN U.S.
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So, uh, 2025, huh? If we put the U.S. men's national team on the same August-to-July calendar as club teams, it's been an incredibly disappointing year for the Americans. It started out great! After flaming out of the Copa América, the USMNT got...
The Week in Women's Football: NWSL review; Angel City coach Straus speaks
Tribal Football
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This week, we present part 2 of our 2025 NWSL Season Review to Date, during the NWSL summer break for international tournaments. This week we look at Gotham FC—who are in the last playoff spot if the season ended today—North Carolina, Bay FC,...