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Thousands of supporters of Spain’s far-right Vox party gathered today in their cars and on motorbikes in the centre of Madrid and other Spanish cities to protest the Spanish government’s handling of the nation’s COVID-19 crisis, international news agencies
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Biden Hires Chávez Granddaughter To Help On Latino Outreach
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden‘s presidential campaign is bringing on the granddaughter of civil rights leader César Chávez as a senior adviser to help with Latino outreach and building out its operation in the
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Former president of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), Hugh Perry has
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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An inmate from the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre died today after trying to disarm correctional
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Sierra Leone: Freetown Just Implemented a New Tax System That Could Quintuple Revenue
In the next few weeks, residents of Freetown are expecting to receive new property tax bills as part of a revamped and more progressive
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Source: allAfrica.com
Zimbabwe: Mwonzora Dismisses Social Media Chats As Fake and Malicious
MDC Secretary General Douglas Mwonzora has dismissed as fake social media chats purporting to be between him and some Zanu PF
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Chad: As Chad's Problems Mount, What Role for Civil Society?
Despite Chad's economic woes and its citizens' frustration with elite impunity, its civil society organisations have struggled to mobilise into a coherent protest
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Africa: Innovating for Mothers Challenge launched to improve maternal and newborn health care in Senegal
DAKAR, SENEGAL (May 21st, 2020) -- Reach for Change Senegal has launched a national competition called the "Innovating for Mothers Challenge" aimed at finding and supporting innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives for maternal and newborn health in Senegal that are ready to grow their
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The truth about the truth dressed in robes of censor
Unfortunately for them, such theories have been gaining so much traction these days; especially so on social media, that it is no longer enough to swathe them with the tag “Fake
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TSD Nets $50,000 Facebook Journalism Project Grant | Afro
PULL QUOTE: NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — Our selection largely reflects the dedicated work of our boots-on-the-ground staffers, freelancers and contributing
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Exam headache!
Aleisha Salmon, a grade 12 student at Meadowbrook High, told the Jamaica Observer that since the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) forced the physical closure of schools, she has been worried and fearful as she is not certain what will obtain with the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations
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Mitchell Town recreational park in Clarendon gets facelift
Residents of Mitchell Town in Clarendon joined hands on Labour Day to give a facelift to the rural community’s more than five-decades-old recreational
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
FID targets assets after five convicted in $400m Manchester municipal fraud trial
THE WAY is now clear for the Government to begin the legal process of seeking to take possession of properties and other assets valued at more than $220 million that have been traced to former Manchester Parish Council official Sanja
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Facebook's libra wallet is now called Novi
Facebook has changed the name of the digital wallet to be used with its new cryptocurrency, the latest in a number of changes to the digital currency and its
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L.A. DIGEST: Mayor prepares ‘All In’ announcement
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A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the May 6 shooting of eight-year-old Toya Brown in West
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Chicago Public Library Enlists The Obamas and Oprah Winfrey to Read to Children ‘Live from the Library’
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Future Is The Father Of Another Child, DNA Test Confirms
DNA testing has confirmed that the Atlanta rapper is the daddy of Instagram model Eliza Reign’s baby
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Man charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition
Detectives from the May Pen Police Division have charged 30-year-old Robert Johnson, otherwise called ‘Shibby', of Midway Avenue, May Pen, Clarendon, with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition on Thursday, May
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Michael Jackson - Bad (Shortened Version)
For the first short film for one of five consecutive record-breaking No. 1 hits from Bad, Michael Jackson and director Martin Scorsese created an epic 18-minute tale of urban and racial challenges in the 1980s. Bad was named the second greatest of Michaels short films by Rolling Stone in
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Ben Affleck apologizes for lobbying 'Finding Your Roots' to exclude slave-owning ancestor from show
The Arcadian calm of PBS was shattered Tuesday in the wake of leaked Sony emails that revealed Ben Affleck had demanded references to a slave-owning ancestor be excised from a segment on him in the program, “Finding Your Roots.” The System — which has no role in the production of this
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New boss for JPS
Michel Gantois, an investment banker turned energy tycoon who speaks four languages, will lead the country’s power utility company, Jamaica Public Service
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Did sea farm debacle sink California aquaculture? | Black Voice News
None are harvesting in federal waters, which are more than three miles offshore, and only one mussel farm operates in open sea in California, a well-regarded facility in state waters off Santa
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Peers hail Dabengwa’s humility
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Police Officers Overly Tase Black Man As He Screamed Out For Help In Pennsylvania
On May 14, 2020, a video surfaced the internet of a black man from Reading, Pennsylvania being arrested and the video is
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Motorists affected by 'bad gas' saga could get compensation in two weeks
Several motorists who were affected during the 2015 bad gas saga are currently being contacted and given a date to visit the offices of the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), to begin the process of collecting their share of a $24.5 million compensation
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JC old boys launch COVID-19 rescue plan
AS the world continues to grapple with the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, one group that is pulling out all the stops to keep their alma mater afloat is the Jamaica College Old Boys Association
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Rearing rabbit, the other white meat
The Jamaica 4-H Clubs is on a drive to get Jamaicans to consume more rabbit, which it is actively promoting as ‘the other white meat’ and a healthful alternative for persons looking to enhance their
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