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What is BRICS and why does it matter?
Deutsche Welle
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July 3, 2025
Leaders of the world's fast-growing BRICS economies gather in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, promising to strengthen trade and technology exchange within the bloc in the shadow of US President Donald Trump's tariff threat. Brazilian President Luiz...
ESA’s umbrella-shaped biomass satellite captures first images of earth’s forests from space
Design Boom
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June 24, 2025
Forest Images photographed by ESA’s Biomass satellite The umbrella-shaped Biomass satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) photographs the first aerial images of the Earth’s forests and topography. The spacecraft, which is being used to study...
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ESA
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Applications 23/06/2025 31465 views 121 likes Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission – marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s...
Tinubu’s Forest Guard: Who Will Guard the Guard? (Part 2)
This Day
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June 30, 2025
Introduction We started this series recently, with an x-ray of policy formation and its implementation, the constitutional status of forest vis-à-vis the States and the Federal Government, and later addressed the issue of policy Unitarianism in...
First-of-its-Kind Satellite Sees Through Forest Canopies to Measure Earth’s Biomass
PetaPixel - California
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June 23, 2025
Bolivian forest and landscape captured by Biomass | Credit: European Space Agency It’s a day of firsts for incredible new scientific missions. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) new Biomass mission, launched into orbit just two months ago, has...
IMF ranks South Sudan poorest country in 2025
The City Review
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July 1, 2025
By James Chatim South Sudan has been ranked as the world’s poorest country in 2025, according to new data released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), estimating the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita at $251. In the list, the...
WORDS ABOUT WILTON: Gail Hoar – Reconnecting with America through soaps
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript - New Hampshire
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The other day, I tuned to a program on NPR discussing the story of soap operas on TV. It made me laugh, as long-shelved memories began to reemerge and I realized this topic ties to why we settled in Wilton. Let me explain. In the late 1960s, I...
Zulum meets soldiers, returnees in Malam-Fatori, Boko Haram’s stronghold in Borno
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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June 23, 2025
The Borno state governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, Sunday, visited Malam-Factori, headquarters of Abadam local government where he engaged directly with soldiers and returnees. The visit was aimed at encouraging the military in their effort to...
Togo Set to Benefit from New Phase of PARIIS Irrigation Project
Togo First
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(Togo First) - Togo and three other West African countries could gain stronger irrigation support under the new phase of the Projet d'Appui Régional à l'Initiative pour l'Irrigation au Sahel (PARIIS). Officials announced this on June 10, 2025, at...
Does SADC’s post-conflict reconstruction plan marginalise transitional justice?
Institute for Security Studies
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Does SADC’s post-conflict reconstruction plan marginalise transitional justice? Without several amendments to its draft framework, SADC will struggle to help member states address their abusive pasts. Published on 30 June 2025 in ISS Today By...
In Malam-Fatori, Governor Zulum meets soldiers, returnees
National Accord Newspaper
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June 23, 2025
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, visited Malam-Factori, headquarters of Abadam Local Government, on Sunday, engaging directly with soldiers and returnees. The visit was aimed at encouraging the military in...
Zulum Meets Soldiers, Returnees In Malam-Fatori
Daily Independent
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June 23, 2025
2 Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, visited Malam-Fatori, headquarters of Abadam Local Government, on Sunday, engaging directly with soldiers and returnees. The visit was aimed at encouraging the military in their effort to restore...
A Short Flight, A Long Reflection: The 25-Minute Flight from Maiduguri to N’Djamena.
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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June 23, 2025
In just 25 minutes, the aircraft lifts from Maiduguri International Airport and descends into Hassan Djamous International Airport N’Djamena. A journey so brief it barely allows for a cup of tea. Yet, this short flight across the Lake Chad Basin...
UK Government ‘Blocking Debt Relief’ for World’s Poorest Countries Following Corporate Lobbying
Byline Times
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June 18, 2025
Byline Times is an independent, reader-funded investigative newspaper, outside of the system of the established press, reporting on ‘what the papers don’t say’ – without fear or favour. For digital and print editions, packed with exclusive...
How a boy's bicycle accident led to a free neighborhood soccer camp in Lincoln
Lincoln Journal Star - Nebraska
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June 22, 2025
Coach Hasan Khalil and participants in his soccer camp, including Alhadi Mahamat, back left, put their hands in the center of the huddle to end practice at Clinton Elementary School earlier this month. A bike accident led Khalil to a friendship...
Terror, horror and sorrow in Benue
The Cable
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June 21, 2025
On June 13, 2025, Yelewata and Dauda, two Benue communities bordering Nasarawa state, played host to a gory spectacle overnight. It was filled with sorrow, tears and blood. Hundreds of villagers — women and children inclusive — were murdered in...
Volusia County things to do, starting June 27
Orlando Sentinel - Florida
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June 25, 2025
What’s happening Master Gardener Plant Clinic: Join Master Gardener Julie Warner for talks on a variety of gardening topics. 1-2:30 p.m. July 1, DeLand Regional Library, 130 E. Howry Ave., DeLand, free, https://ifas.ufl.edu/ifas-calendar-events/....
Seminole County things to do, starting June 27
Orlando Sentinel - Florida
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June 25, 2025
What’s happening Amateur radio field day: The Lake Monroe Amateur Radio Society will participate in national Amateur Radio Field Day 2025, designed to test operators’ abilities to set up and operate portable stations under emergency conditions....
Orange County things to do, starting June 27
Orlando Sentinel - Florida
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June 25, 2025
What’s happening Summer family tours: A 40-minute gallery tour led by a Museum educator includes a take-home art activity for elementary school-aged children and their parents or guardians. Reservations required. 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. July 8 and July...
Till the last truck comes off the field
Farm Talk - Kansas
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It’s almost noon outside Enid, Oklahoma. A 30 mile an hour wind is burning the morning dew off a wheat field that’s a mile long. A five man harvest crew, plus three truck drivers, are on standby. An hour ago they cut a wheat sample from the field...