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UC Irvine-led research team uncovers global wildfire paradox
EurekAlert!
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Irvine, Calif. — Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have spotted a contradiction in worldwide wildfire trends: Despite a 26 percent decline in total burned area from 2002 to 2021, the number of people...
UC Irvine-led study finds fewer burned acres but more people exposed to wildfires worldwide
Central OC Times - California
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August 21, 2025
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and collaborating institutions have identified a global paradox in wildfire trends. Their study, published in Science, found that while the total area burned by wildfires worldwide declined by...
Immigrant population in U.S. drops for the first time in decades
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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For the first time in decades, more immigrants are leaving the United States than arriving, a new study finds, an early indication that President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda is leading people to depart — whether through deportation...
Uganda becomes fourth African country to accept Trump administration’s deportees
The Globe and Mail
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August 21, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:People wade into Lake Victoria in Entebbe, Uganda, in 2024. Uganda is the fourth African country to reach a deal to accept deportees from the United States.David Goldman/The Associated Press Uganda has become the latest...
Trump's Ticket to Judecca
OpEdNews
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August 21, 2025
With all due respect for my cultural brothers, I think it is time to stop criticizing commentators who argue that Donald Trump is an evil dictator on a par with Adolph Hitler. It is not disrespectful of the SIX MILLION Jews slaughtered by Hitler...
Egypt presses Hamas as Gaza talks intensify
Ynet
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August 20, 2025
Egypt forced Hamas into a corner, telling the terrorist group bluntly in Cairo that its demand for a comprehensive “end of war” deal was impossible under Israeli conditions. With Washington and Doha already aligned behind a partial arrangement,...
Uganda agrees to take in people refused asylum by America
Business Day
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August 21, 2025
Uganda has signed a deal with the United States to accept people from other countries who have been refused asylum in America but don’t want to go back to their home countries. The Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the agreement on...
How ICE Became Trump’s Secret Army
The Atlantic
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August 20, 2025
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum begins with reflections on how Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown has transformed America into what he...
Scientists confirm there are FOUR distinct species of giraffe, not just one - so, can you spot the difference?
Daily Mail
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August 21, 2025
It is undoubtedly one of the most majestic creatures in the animal kingdom. But it turns out there's not just one species of giraffe. In fact, there are four. Scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have confirmed...
World : Uganda Agrees To Take Third Country Migrants Denied US Asylum
Bernama
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August 21, 2025
ISTANBUL, Aug 21 (Bernama-Anadolu) -- Uganda has reached a “temporary” agreement with the United States (US) to accept third-country nationals who are denied asylum in the US, Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported. The deal excludes individuals with...
Uganda agrees to take US deportees without a criminal record
OregonLive.com
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August 21, 2025
KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don’t have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The ministry said in a statement that...
Israel’s need for genocide
Middle East Monitor
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August 21, 2025
Before Israel’s genocide in Gaza, human rights still bore a superficial semblance to what rights were supposed to entail. There was never any balance, of course. Colonialism had already set its precedents on what rights are and who should grant...
Our National Basketball Team: A Temporary Setback and an Opportunity for the Future
Number One Citizen Daily
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August 21, 2025
Although I usually do not write about sports, and despite being a follower of both local and international basketball, my analytical experience regarding the performance of our national team in the AfroBasket tournament is limited. Nevertheless,...
14 with ties to WA deported to ‘third countries’ and Guantánamo Bay
The Columbian - Washington State
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SEATTLE — As the Trump administration lines up ever more countries to accept deported immigrants, a report to be released Thursday documents Washington has more extensive ties than previously known to migrants sent to a notorious prison in El...
Trump, send your deportees to Europe not Africa
Al Jazeera
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August 20, 2025
On August 5, Rwanda announced it had agreed to accept 250 migrants under the Trump administration’s expanding third-country deportation programme. Speaking from Kigali, government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said Rwanda would retain the right to...
Uganda Becomes Latest African Nation To Take Trump Deportees — With Conditions
The Daily Caller
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August 21, 2025
The Trump administration secured another international partner in its quest to establish multiple third-country destinations for migrants deported from the United States. Uganda has agreed to a “temporary arrangement” in which it will accept...
Our award-winning training alumnus is up for another prize
Finance Uncovered
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A star performer from one of Finance Uncovered’s training programmes has been shortlisted for one of Africa’s most prestigious journalism awards. Paul Murungi, from Uganda and the Lead Business Reporter at CEO East Africa Magazine, has been...
US State Department fires official over internal Gaza dispute
Al Mayadeen
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August 21, 2025
Shahed Ghoreishi was fired from the State Department after disputes over forced displacement of Palestinians and pro-'Israel' messaging in Gaza affairs. The US State Department has dismissed its top press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs,...
Heavy shelling hits Gaza city before Israel's major assault
The National News
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Heavy shelling has hit Gaza city after the Israeli army began mobilising more forces for an assault to reoccupy the enclave’s largest urban area. “It was very difficult, the shelling came with all kinds of weapons from quadcopters, tanks,...
Uganda agrees deal with US to take in deported asylum seekers
Al Jazeera
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August 21, 2025
Uganda has agreed to take in nationals from third countries who may not get asylum in the United States but do not wish to return to their countries of origin, Kampala’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The ministry said on Thursday that the...