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Gold laundering capital?
Independent (Uganda)
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August 18, 2025
Artisanal miners toiling in the pits of Rubaya, in the DR Congolese province of North Kivu, a region that is rich in deposits of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold. Congolese artisanal and small-scale miners often sell their minerals to middlemen,...
Third African Nation to Accept Deportees from US Under Trump Admin
Newsweek
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August 28, 2025
By Billal Rahman is an immigration reporter based in London, U.K. He specializes in immigration policy and border security. He has uncovered allegations of misconduct among border agents under investigation and exposed claims of abuse at ICE-run...
Israel demands retraction of ‘fraudulent’ Gaza famine report
The Jewish News
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August 28, 2025
Israel is demanding the retraction of a “deeply flawed” UN-supported agency report that declared a famine in Gaza City and claimed conditions are likely to spread to Deir al‑Balah and Khan Younis in coming weeks. On Friday 22 August, The...
When Government Institutions Become a Family Business
Number One Citizen Daily
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August 13, 2025
By Kiden Stela Mandela Government institutions in South Sudan often operate less like public service bodies and more like a family business. At the head is the father figure, but every relative, from the national government down to the state,...
AP News Summary at 7:51 a.m. EDT
The Porterville Recorder - California
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Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfire MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The pews of a Minneapolis church were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren paired with older ‘buddies’ listening to a...
Scientists step up training so farmers can beat potato pests
University World News
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KENYA Scientists and researchers in Africa say they are working together and are producing positive results in the fight against microscopic potato cyst nematode (PCN) infestation in key crops like potatoes. Science experts from the African Seed...
AP News Summary at 7:29 a.m. EDT
The Porterville Recorder - California
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Hundreds honor 2 children killed and 17 people wounded in shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Just hours after a shooter opened fire through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, hundreds were crowding...
Take Control of Your Cash Flow: Proven Strategies for AR Leaders
CFO Dive
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AP News Summary at 6:47 a.m. EDT
The Blackstone Valley Call & Times - Rhode Island
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August 28, 2025
Hundreds honor 2 children killed and 17 people wounded in shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Just hours after a shooter opened fire through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, hundreds were crowding...
AP News Summary at 9:51 a.m. EDT
Imperial Valley Press - California
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Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfire MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The pews of a Minneapolis church were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren paired with older ‘buddies’ listening to a...
AP News Summary at 9:16 a.m. EDT
The Porterville Recorder - California
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Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfire MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The pews of a Minneapolis church were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren paired with older ‘buddies’ listening to a...
The Performance of Disarmament
NOW Lebanon
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August 27, 2025
The long-awaited moment has arrived: the one that many have been longing for since the early seventies – and that many, ever since, have been fearing. Yet neither the former nor the latter could have imagined such a poorly-staged performance. On...
Peace Advocate Thokgor Bol Reech Releases New Book“Peaceful Living, Children's Education And Agriculture Development” To Champion Global Unity And Sustainable Solutions
MENAFN
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August 27, 2025
(MENAFN- GetNews) "Peaceful Living, Children's Education & Agricultural Development by Thokgor Bol Reech"Author Thokgor Bol Reech's Peaceful Living promotes global peace through education, agriculture, and nonviolence. Based on his experiences,...
Caring students connect with Point Cook
The National Tribune
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August 28, 2025
Department of Defence Excitement and pride filled the air as Year 6 students from St Mary MacKillop Primary School in Bannockburn visited RAAF Base Point Cook and the RAAF Museum to enjoy a CT-4A heritage aircraft flying display by 100 Squadron....
GT on the Spot: An inside look at how Chinese officers, soldiers train for the grand military parade on Sep 3
Global Times
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Members of the formation of Chinese peacekeepers that will participate in the upcoming V-Day parade in Beijing practice at a training site on August 12, 2025. Photo: Wang Cong/GTWith China's military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the...
Opinion| The Boundary Paradox: Governor Bol Wek Agoth and the Twic–Abyei Dispute
Radio Tamazuj
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August 28, 2025
Warrap State Governor Ambassador Bol Wek Agoth publicly stated that members of the Ngok Community or the Abyei Administration informed him that the boundary between Twic County and the Abyei Administrative Area is the River Lol. This statement,...
Customers in dilemma as cash crisis faces Momo Centres
Number One Citizen Daily
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August 28, 2025
MTN MoMo umbrella shop, (photo: courtesy) By: Chol D. Johnson The MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) customers has expressed frustration over insufficient cash to withdraw or deposit. This is as a result of the ongoing liquidity crisis facing the country....
Old Mutual’s H1 net earnings drop on higher claims and lower interests
Star
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Old Mutual/FILE A strong shilling, increased underlying assets, and fair value gains saw Old Mutual’s investment income strengthen by 13 per cent to Sh4.2 billion from Sh3.7 billion in the first six months of the year. The Kenyan shilling has...
Will the ‘Maryland Man’ Be Sent to Mamdani’s Homeland?
American Thinker
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August 28, 2025
For months, major outlets cast Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a mere “Maryland man”—husband, father, neighbor, deportation victim, martyr. It was gossamer; the lightest brush with fact should have shredded it. You’d think he’d been plucked from the...
Comment: Starvation is a preferred atrocity of war. But how long can this go on?
The National News
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The starving of two million people in Gaza is rightly outraging the world. So should the hunger that is stalking 25 million people in Sudan, 16 million in Afghanistan, 14 million in Myanmar, and two million in Haiti. Or any of the nearly 300...