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How to watch Rugby Championship 2025: free live streams and key dates
Watch Rugby Championship 2025 live streams with the Springboks taking on the challenge for their title from the Wallabies, All Blacks and Pumas between this August and October. Below we have all the info on how to watch Rugby Championship from...

Mexican Caribbean Turns Seaweed Crisis into Fuel, Building Panels, and Carbon Credits
On the beaches of Quintana Roo, the tide brings more than tourists. In 2025, record waves of sargassum threaten to choke the coastline’s turquoise brand—but engineers and scientists here are betting it can be turned into energy, products, and...

Opinion: Gaza as an Abraham Accord Protectorate
From Malevolent Regime to US Membership. An Outline. By Barry Shaw Israel Institute for Strategic Studies A Protectorate is an autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity....

Comment on COMMENTARY: Guardian of the public purse; Dominica’s first Financial Secretary – Alick Lazare (w/ video interview) by Roger Burnett
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of Duravision Inc, Dominica News Online, or any of its subsidiary brands.This interview with former Financial Secretary Alick Lazare must be appreciated in the...

Guadalcanal, the Spanish village that became a Pacific battlefield
There are many Americans, especially members of older generations, who will be rather familiar with the name Guadalcanal. It is one of the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific Ocean, which lie in the western part of the South Pacific, to the...

Christelle Oyiri Is Remixing the Archive
The artist, filmmaker and DJ reflects on the neo-diaspora, the politics of beauty, dance as resistance, and her current Tate Modern commission — a sonic-visual work that weaves together memory, protest, and digital vernaculars. Words by Katrina...
Leaders call for reflection, action on African Emancipation Day
President Christine Kangaloo has challenged citizens to “confront the injustices and inequalities” that persist in society in her African Emancipation Day message. Kangaloo also called on the population to “examine our...

Macron's 'Palestine' Blunder Threatens the Lives of US Hostages, Rewards Terrorism
French President Emmanuel Macron made a disappointing, yet not surprising, decision, declaring that the French government will formally recognize Palestine as a state before the U.N. General Assembly this fall. “True to its historic commitment to...

WATCH: Texas lawmakers to reevaluate river authority over lack of flood warning system
(The Center Square) – Texas state lawmakers plan to reevaluate the purpose of the Upper Guadeloupe River Authority (UGRA) after it was revealed that after nine years, no river monitoring system was implemented even though it had the funds to do...

PM praises African people’s resilience
News Clint Chan Tack 6 Hrs Ago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar outside the Red House on July 28. - Photo by Ayanna Kinsale PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has praised members of the Afro-Trinidadian community for their resilience and...

Texas lawmakers to reevaluate river authority over lack of flood warning system
Texas state lawmakers plan to reevaluate the purpose of the Upper Guadeloupe River Authority (UGRA) after it was revealed that after nine years, no river monitoring system was implemented even though it had the funds to do so. At a state...

International Decolonization Front Rejects Bougival Accord
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 29. The International Decolonization Front (IDF) has officially voiced its opposition to the Bougival Accord signed in July 2025, Trend reports. The agreement, reached between France and...

21 Canadian books we're excited to read in August A new month means new books. Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian titles for August 2025. Books |4 hours ago
A new month brings a new set of reads. Here are some of the new Canadian book releases for August 2025, perfect to dive into before the summer winds down. Fiction | Children and Young Adult | Poetry What She Left Behind by Brianne Sommerville In...
COMMENTARY — The Wagners of Trellis Bay, Part 38
I started this series of commentaries to celebrate the inauguration of direct flights from Miami and Polish Captain Wladek Wagner’s development of Beef Island airfield, as told by his widow Mabel Wagner in her 2015 book Lest I Forget. I have tried...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, June 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...

'Barbie Killer' Karla Homolka was released 20 years ago — Here's where she is now
It's been 20 years since Karla Homolka — dubbed the "Barbie Killer" — was released from prison after serving her sentence, following a controversial plea deal with prosecutors. In the early 1990s, Homolka and her then-husband, Paul Bernardo, were...

Travelling from France with a non-family child - what are the necessary steps?
Rules can also apply if travelling with family members All children living in France are subject to travel rules Shutterstock/Franck Poupart Reader Question: We are travelling back to the UK and taking the 17-year old daughter of family friends,...

Rudolph Speid to join Reggae Boyz coaching staff
By Jeremain Brown Following days of rumours that Rudolph Speid would be appointed as an assistant coach to the senior Reggae Boyz team, confirmation has come from Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) President Michael Ricketts that the Cavalier S.C....

Faith’s family tree
Our Catholic faith doesn’t appear out of thin air, and it plays out incarnationally and across history. Faith comes from somewhere, and often, that somewhere is a someone, often visibly woven into our personal genealogies. Everyone wants to claim...