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Concerns around potential meat shortages - and spillovers into other parts of the food system - are putting intense pressure on political leaders to respond more aggressively, as seen in the US, where President Donald Trump ordered meat plants to re-open to avert a looming
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Customs inspectors in Los Angeles have seen it all. 'From live baby cobras concealed in potato chips cans, exotic live turtles inside cookies boxes, to a mummified human hand coming in a shipment from Africa,' recounts Jaime Ruiz, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman. But finding it all
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Biden told Putin there will be a 'heavy price to pay' if Russia invades Ukraine | Haiti Gazette
The content originally appeared on: CNN Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden will speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, several days after Biden urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to ease an unremitting military crisis on Ukraine's border. Biden, a White House official
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Jackson State University President Promotes HBCU Legacy in Detroit with Saturday Fundraiser | The Michigan Chronicle
Jackson State University President Thomas K. Hudson visited Detroit on Saturday, July 31 for a funding-raising event for the historically Black university located in Jackson, Mississippi. By Sherri Kolade Jackson State University, a historically Black college/university, has been changing the lives
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Banana Taped to Dorm Door of Two Black Students at Rhodes College
On Monday, a banana was taped to the door of two Black male students at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Regardless if the personor personswho planted the banana on their doors meant it as a prank, the students believe they were targeted because of the color of their skin. They also think the
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TTCSI, Trade Ministry give services sector boost to export strategy - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
THE TT Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) has launched a new initiative to promote the services sector and boost the export strategy of Trinidad and Tobago. In a virtual launch on September 3, the TTCSI unveiled its national services campaign — Go Global TT Services which will be support
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Liberia: Gbezhongar Findley Takes Arcelormittal to Court Over Alleged Failure to Meet Up With Concession Agreement
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Liberia: Unity Chairman Modad Refutes ANC's Cummings's Illegal Endorsement Claims
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The content originally appeared on: CNN Putin's spokesperson also confirmed there was a discussion. 'Yes, such a conversation took place via telephone,' Putin's spokesperson Dimitry Peskov told CNN on Monday CNN reported Friday that Burns' visit to the Russian capital took place at a time of
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WI selectors get it wrong - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
THE EDITOR: Let me state off the bat that Roger Harper has been doing an excellent job as the chairman of selectors for West Indies Cricket. What influenced him to get it wrong this time is beyond me and for such an important tournament. Let me emphatically state that Christopher Henry Gayle
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We’re too broke to fund Zanu PF: Vendors - NewsDay Zimbabwe
BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA VENDORS have said that they cannot afford to  fund Zanu PF’s 2023 election campaign as they were struggling to fend for their families due to an unstable economy and recurrent lockdowns This was after Zanu PF acting national commissar Patrick Chinamasa last week announced that
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Kwacha grip remains loose - The Times Group Malawi
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Elections 2021: IEC ready for registration weekend, wants voting day to be declared a public holiday | News24
The Electoral Commission of SA says it is ready for this weekend's voter registration drive as it opens up more than 23 000 stations across the country.
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Spelman College, Clark Atlanta clear outstanding student tuition balances - DefenderNetwork.com
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BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA ZIMBABWE’S COVID-19 fight might soon go off the rails if government does not urgently mobilise additional funding after exhausting US$93,2 million of the US$100 million budgeted for vaccine imports, with the country still far from achieving its targeted 60% herd
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