Foreign affairs ministry to begin operating from new offices tomorrow

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Foreign affairs ministry to begin operating from new offices tomorrow

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade will commence operating from its new headquarters at 2 Port Royal Street, downtown Kingston, tomorrow. The 11-storey building will accommodate 285 members of staff spanning 17 departments. The...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and WILL WEISSERT WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, making history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party’s presidential ticket and acknowledging the vital role Black voters will play in his bid to

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Zimbabwe: Chinese in Massive Looting Zimbabwe's Minerals - Chief Chiweshe

[New Zimbabwe] A TRADITIONAL leader in Mashonaland Central province has in a rare show of bravery stood up and accused Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe of being behind massive looting of the country mineral resources.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Guyana’s Infant Oil & Gas Sector: Doomsday options - tariffs on oil, NOPEC Bill and invoking the nuclear option after a US/Saudi oil war!

The incisive, intense, and increasingly incendiary geo-political, economic, and strategic debate concerning the Saudi Arabia/ US struggle for crude oil market share is basically unacknowledged in the local print and social

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“Police Reform and Personal Responsibility” - L.A. Focus News

The nation's first major civil rights law, the Civil Rights Act of 1871, passed shortly after the Civil War, contains a provision known as Section 1983 that protects citizens from violation of their civil rights by government officials. It says that a government official who violates

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Black Americans laud Juneteenth holiday, say more work ahead | The Atlanta Voice

Black Americans rejoiced Thursday after President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday, but some said that, while they appreciated the recognition at a time of racial reckoning in America, more is needed to change policies that disadvantage too many of their brethren.

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Kenya: Tusker or KCB - Who Will Clinch CAF Champions League Slot?

[Nation] It is now certain that Kenya will have a new representative in the Caf Champions League next season replacing local champions Gor Mahia who have participated in the event for the last four years.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Calendar, June 23 – July 7 - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

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President Biden taps Meharry Medical College president for COVID Task Force | The Atlanta Voice

Meharry Medical College President and CEO Dr. James Hildreth has been named by President Joe Biden as a member of his COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Dr. Hildreth, the renowned immunologist and academic administrator and Meharry’s 12th president, sat on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Fantasy Marathon mailbag - High hopes for Ezekiel Elliott, Najee Harris, J.K. Dobbins news -The Black Chronicle

ESPN's Fantasy Football Marathon returns Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET, so consider this your annual reminder that nobody has you covered with a more loaded roster of fantasy analysts

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Tunisia: UTICA Calls for Providing Urgent Assistance to Covid-19-Affected Activities

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA) reiterated call to the government to devise an emergency assistance plan for enterprises affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

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Source: allAfrica.com

A year after George Floyd’s death, dismay over failure to approve comprehensive police reform in Texas - Texas Metro News

Lawmakers say some progress has been made, but most proposals are stalled as legislative session winds down. By Gromer Jeffers Jr. AUSTIN - The 2020 murder of unarmed George Floyd by a former Minneapolis police officer renewed calls for criminal justice reform, with people across the world

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The Olympia Beauty fair returns following pandemic break | Africanews

The Olympia Beauty fair has returned to London following last year's cancellation due to the pandemic. 18,000 beauty professionals have gathered at the show - to network and check out some of the latest trends and innovations in the industry.

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SEPROD says it remains committed to St Thomas

Despite relocating its milk-production plant to Bog Walk in St Catherine in 2018 and last year’s closure of the Golden Grove Sugar Factory, in which it acquired major share holdings in 2009, the SEPROD Group of Companies has said that it has not...

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The power of music...prisoners join covid19 awareness campaign - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

In the exercise yard at remand prison, at Golden Grove, Arouca, Terrence Morris sat alone thinking about a message just delivered to him. The Trinidad and Tobago prison programmes officer said the Wishing for Wings Foundation wanted to know how members of the prison debate team felt about writ

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Colliding crises shake already chaotic campaign's last month - Black News Channel

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The closing days of the presidential campaign were already dominated by the worst public health crisis in a century, millions of jobless Americans, a reckoning on civil rights, the death of a Supreme Court justice and uncertainty about

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Georgia Senate considers repealing no excuse absentee voting in sweeping election bill | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia Republican lawmakers are pushing to clamp down on voting rights Monday, potentially passing a sweeping election bill that among other things would repeal no-excuse absentee voting. Under SB 241, voters would need to be 65 years old or older, absent from their precinct, observing a religious

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

BLACK AMERICANS HAVE EVERYTHING TO LOSE IN THIS ELECTION – Dallas Post Tribune

By Svante Myrick, Mayor of Ithaca, New York As the mayor of a city in New York, every day I wake up and do what I can to ensure every resident in my city has a good-paying job, affordable health coverage, a roof over their head, food on the table, and to be treated with […]

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Bishop Harry Jackson, Black Conservative Pastor Who Advised Trump, Dies

Bishop Harry Jackson, a Black conservative pastor who advised President Donald Trump, has died.

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Source: The Urban Daily

Without patients or staff, Madrid opens new $119M hospital - Black News Channel

By IAIN SULLIVAN and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Spain's capital on Tuesday held a ceremony to open part of a 1,000-bed emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients that critics say is no more than a vanity project, a building with beds not ready to receive patients and

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Students of color affected by lack of digital connection | Afro

By Daryl Moore Special to the AFRO “The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the challenges digitally disconnected students face like nothing else,” Student Internet Equity Coalition Founder Donna Rattley Washington told the AFRO. “With the closing of some 118,000 public and private schools across the

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Namibia: Shangula Encouraged By Downward Covid-19 Trend

[New Era] Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula has acknowledged the decline in Covid-19 cases over the past month, saying there has been a massive drop in the number of new infections, hospitalisation and deaths in Namibia.

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Source: allAfrica.com

The UWI rejects allegations of widespread exam cheating - Barbados Today

The University of the West Indies says it categorically rejects misinformed allegations in recent media coverage on the subject of the integrity of its examinations, as the institution transitioned to online evaluations in response to the exigencies of the pandemic. The University says it is

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Kenya: Drought Now Declared National Disaster

[Nation] President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday declared the drought ravaging parts of the country a national disaster.

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Source: allAfrica.com

State of emergency begins in host city Tokyo as Games near - Stabroek News

TOKYO, (Reuters) - Olympic host city Tokyo entered a new state of emergency yesterday, less than two weeks before the Games begin amid worries about whether the measures can stem a rise in COVID-19

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GBN Video of the Week: First-Look Featurette on Aretha Franklin Biopic “Respect” Starring Jennifer Hudson (WATCH)

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) It’s no secret that I’m a die-hard Aretha Franklin stan. Have almost all the records, read all the books, seen all the documentaries, the con…

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Nigerian Court Refuses to Stop Resident Doctors' Strike

[Premium Times] The judge says he cannot order the resident doctors to stop their strike without hearing them.

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Kenya: Hold Your Horses, Sonko Tells MCAs on Ouster Bid

[Nation] Embattled Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has dismissed a fresh attempt to impeach him as premature, saying the court is yet to rule on a petition filed against a similar motion lodged by Minority Whip Peter Imwatok in February.

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October 2: The Republic of Guinea Gained its Independence Under Sekou Toure

Photo credits: trtworld.com On October 2, 1958, the previous French settlement announces self-independence along with Sekou Toure—the current national prime figurehead. Guinea was the only French West African settlement to pick full independence over members in the French

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