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Global, industry leaders to convene at Sharjah
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Dubai: The 8th edition of the Sharjah Investment Forum (SIF 2025) will bring together global ministers, senior officials, and business leaders from 142 countries under one roof, in collaboration with the World Investment Conference (WIC). Taking...
Owner: Obaid Al Tayer
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: an Appeal in a Time of Darkness
Still from David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997). So, here we are on the precipice. Not just CounterPunch, but the country, even the 30% who refuse to believe it. Indeed, we may well be off the precipice, suspended in air above the chasm, like Wile E....
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Heat has essentially wiped out 2 key coral species on Florida reefs
After a searing ocean heat wave in 2023, two of the most historically important coral species in Florida are functionally extinct from the state’s reef, scientists have found. Elkhorn and staghorn coral, known for their branching limestone arms...
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Language and Eucharist: A translator’s insights on immigration
The United States’ immigration system is, as Alejandra Oliva writes, “hungry for bodies to suffer.” In her book, Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration (Astra House), the Mexican American translator and immigration justice...
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Speaker Johnson Blows the Lid Off the Dems' Schumer Shutdown Theater
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is not playing these games. It’s not a typical smackdown, but it was a gentlemanly bayou beatdown when he explained what the Democrats want to reopen the government. Spoiler alert: they want a lot of woke nonsense, on...
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Tropical Storm Melissa not yet strengthening, but still expected to become a dangerous Caribbean hurricane
[En español] A Hurricane Watch is up for the south coast of Haiti and a Tropical Storm Watch for Jamaica for Tropical Storm Melissa, which had not yet strengthened as of midday Wednesday. The storm was crawling slowly west-northwestward across the...
Owner: Yale University
The problems with boxelder trees
Boxelders — a tree generally disliked for their twisted limbs and inability to stand up to strong winds — nevertheless has fans. Boxelders, fast growing and short-lived, are native to the Americas, a distance that reaches from Canada to Honduras....
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Criminal Illegal Alien Removals
Tom Fitton's Judicial Watch Weekly Update | October 24, 2025 Sanctuary Consequences: ICE Arrests 1,400 Criminal Aliens in Three Weeks Radical Muslim Group to Help Public Schools be ‘More Inclusive’ Sanctuary Consequences: ICE Arrests 1,400...
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U.S. in 2025: 24% of global GDP, 750 military bases, and leadership in technology and culture sustain its global influence
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once said, “We are the indispensable nation,” referring to the USA. The late journalist Carlos Alberto Montaner commissioned me to write a book with this title. His idea was that a book was needed...
Owner: Jim Hoft
Strategic shift: Fyffes divests melon division to strengthen core fruit categories
Tropical produce giant Fyffes is selling its entire melon business to Martori Farms, a fourth-generation, family-owned leader in fresh produce. The acquisition includes the company’s farms in Honduras and Guatemala, as well as the distribution...
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There’s a reason we shouldn’t allow Trump to act as judge, jury, and executioner
The Trump administration has been blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean — and now one in the Pacific — claiming without evidence that they’re “drug boats.” These are extrajudicial executions outside any system of law. And there’s a reason we...
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Three entwined global issues threaten humanity
CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Create more of it with a tax-deductible donation today. I was already busy enough for the past 15 years reporting on and becoming a nonviolent direct-action activist in the...
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Dubai cafe puts high price on cup of world’s most valuable coffee
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Would you pay Dh3,600 for a cup of coffee? A cafe in Dubai is hoping connoisseurs will splash out to enjoy an ultra-rare variety sourced from a high-altitude, family-run farm in Panama. The beans, a washed Geisha variety, will be roasted in...
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€40,000-winning photo series reveals was shot using a DSLR and mirrorless combo
Alejandro Cegarra's powerful black-and-white series, The Two Walls, recently won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025, earning the Venezuelan photojournalist €40,000 and €10,000 worth of Leica equipment. Recognized as one of the industry's most...
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Tropical Storm Melissa on track to be a dangerous Caribbean hurricane
A Hurricane Watch is up for the south coast of Haiti and a Tropical Storm Watch for Jamaica as newly-formed Tropical Storm Melissa chugs west across the central Caribbean. Melissa is gathering strength over near-record-warm Caribbean waters...
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5 of the most destructive October hurricanes to make US landfall
Captain Nate Kahn, commanding officer of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the aircraft used to fly into hurricanes. Hurricane season annually keeps millions on their toes from June to November. But while...
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Sato and Siang to JICA KCCP young leaders
Jevon I. Sato, Division of Protected Areas and Species Project Coordinator, and Ariel D. Siang, Bureau of Fisheries Administrative Specialist, have been accepted to JICA’s KCCP Young Leaders, Industrial Development through Local Resources. Through...
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Woman long blamed for the fall of Aztec empire is now being viewed in a different light
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
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A Hurricane Watch is up for the south coast of Haiti and a Tropical Storm Watch for Jamaica as newly-formed Tropical Storm Melissa chugs west across the central Caribbean. Melissa is gathering strength over near-record-warm Caribbean waters...
Owner: Future PLC
Mumbai Customs seize hydroponic weed worth Rs 20 crore at airport
Mumbai Customs officials seized nearly Rs 20 crore worth of hydroponic weed in two separate operations at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, arresting three passengers who arrived from Bangkok and Hong Kong. Mumbai Customs...
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