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Magnitude 3.9 Earthquake Recorded North of Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua News Room
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May 4, 2025
Magnitude 3.9 Earthquake Recorded North of Antigua and Barbuda A magnitude 3.9 earthquake struck north of Antigua and Barbuda on Saturday evening, according to preliminary data from the UWI Seismic Research Centre (SRC). The tremor occurred at...
Antoni Gaudí’s eccentric holy path: Spain’s famous architect was unlike other would-be saints
The Catholic Herald Online
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June 7, 2025
On 14 April, the late Pope Francis declared the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí a Venerable Servant of God, recognising his heroic virtues. In doing so, he honoured a mightily talented creative spirit and much revered eccentric. Gaudí, who died a...
A study conference on the Spanish priest Juan Bautista Vives: He contributed to the creation of the "Collegio de Propaganda Fide"
Fides
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June 7, 2025
Rome – Juan Bautista Vives, together with the Lucca-born priest Giovanni Leonardi and the Jesuit Martin de Funes, contributed to the creation of the "Collegio de Propaganda Fide," which was founded in 1627 by Pope Urbano VIII with the bull...
Accompanied by rural women and young people, ministers of agriculture from the Eastern Caribbean make a historic visit to IICA Headquarters aimed at accelerating transformations and strengthening territorial communities
Win Media SKN
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June 3, 2025
Media Release Courtesy of IICA San José, 27 May 2025 (IICA). Ministers of agriculture, senior officials, and rural women and young people from the Eastern Caribbean nations began a historic joint work and study visit to the Headquarters of the...
Former Police Commissioner hails Establishment of Recruit Training Course
Radio Montserrat
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A former commissioner of police is hailing the establishment of the recruit training course as part of the Royal Montserrat Police Service (RMPS’) commitment to continued improvement. While delivering the keynote address at the recent recruit...
Boston College delegation returns to help inspire hope in local children
The Gleaner
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June 4, 2025
On Monday, the longstanding partnership between Boston College and Jamaica was revitalised as Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, minister for education, skills, youth and information, welcomed a visiting delegation to the Office of the Prime Minister...
Commentary: Seeds are a good source of inspiration for visual artists
St. Louis Public Radio - Missouri
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June 1, 2025
I couldn't wait to see the exhibition at the Kemper Art Museum on the Wash U campus titled, "Seeds: Containers of a World to Come." I googled “seeds” and the first thing that popped up were quotes about seeds. Robert Lewis Stevenson said, "Do not...
A twist in the week leading up to the university entrance exams: spelling mistakes will remain only in language and literature.
Ara
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June 4, 2025
BarcelonaA major twist in the university entrance exams that 44,200 students will take in Catalonia next week. Unlike what It had been hinted at the beginning of the course, in this year's PAU exams, spelling mistakes will only be included in...
CARPHA Calls for Urgent Action to Beat Plastic Pollution to Secure Future Health on World Environment Day 2025
Discover Montserrat
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June 5, 2025
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) joined their regional and international partners in observing World Environment Day 2025. “Under the theme “Beat Plastic Pollution”, we encourage our regional community – individuals, governments and the...
The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag
The New York Review of Books
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June 1, 2025
The Terrorism Confinement Center was designed to be a black hole. When Nayib Bukele’s flagship “megaprison”—known as CECOT, after its Spanish acronym—opened in January 2023 in a desolate stretch of Tecoluca, about forty-five miles from San...
Peru Alien Mummies Murdered
London Daily Digital
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May 29, 2025
Antonio’s case is particularly harrowing. Dr. David Ruiz Vela, former president of Peru’s Medical Association, analyzed the mummy and described what appears to be a fatal stabbing injury The mysterious “alien” mummies discovered in Peru’s Nazca...
Muscone Ameliorates High-Altitude Hypoxia Gastrointestinal Stress via Modulation of Lactobacillus Murinus and Mitochondrial Metabolism
Dove Medical Press
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May 25, 2025
Introduction The growing global population exposed to high-altitude environments (>2500 m, currently exceeding 81.6 million)1 faces unique physiological challenges stemming from distinct environmental stressors, including hypobaric hypoxia,...
Eastern Caribbean Ministers and Officials at IICA Headquarters
St. Vincent Times
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May 31, 2025
Ministers of agriculture from the Eastern Caribbean make a historic visit to IICA Ministers of agriculture, senior officials, and rural women and young people from the Eastern Caribbean nations began a historic joint work and study visit to the...
Jango Janigian ’25 Wants to Take You on an Adventure Janigian’s English Honors Program thesis introduces Dungeons & Dragons players to the rich history and mythology of ancient Armenia.
The California Courier
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Holy Cross Magazine On a Saturday in February 2025, six professors gathered at Holy Cross and embarked on an epic quest, guided by Jango Janigian ’25, to recover a lost relic stolen from Mayrenik, a matriarchal nation with a rich, ancient history...
Quarter of rough sleepers in Buenos Aires City have been on streets for less than year
Buenos Aires Times
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June 4, 2025
Juan finds it hard to talk or accept help. Lately, he doesn’t even want to eat. Ismael couldn’t bear to see himself that way anymore. He accepted assistance, went back to studying and is now looking for a job. Both are roughly the same age, in...
C’bean tourism’s carbon burden poses energy challenge
Trinidad Express
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June 4, 2025
DESPITE contributing only a small share of global carbon emissions, the Caribbean faces a paradox: its most celebrated industry, tourism, is one of its most carbon-intensive. Melanie Chen, founding chair of the Caribbean Energy Chamber, delivered...
Who Will Support English Learners? Experts Warn of Crisis
Education Week
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April 21, 2025
The fate of federal support for English learners is in crisis as the national office dedicated to these 5.3 million students recently got decimated, researchers and educators say. The office of English language acquisition, commonly known as OELA,...
Georgia State University announces spring 2025 dean's list
Mainstreet News - Georgia
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To be eligible for the dean's list, degree-seeking students must have earned a GPA of at least 3.5 for a minimum of nine semester hours of academic credit taken at Georgia State during the fall or spring term with no incompletes for the semester....
Volcanoes mobilize carbon: New studies upend climate narratives with 3X CO² estimate and 19,000 new undersea peaks
Natural News
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May 21, 2025
Volcanoes mobilize carbon: New studies upend climate narratives with 3X CO² estimate and 19,000 new undersea peaks Advanced sensors revealed that volcanic CO? emissions—particularly from overlooked cooler hydrothermal zones—are up to three times...
5.2 quake shakes St. Kitts and other EC islands
Voice of Nevis
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April 22, 2025
5.2 quake shakes St. Kitts and other EC islands A 5.2 earthquake occurred near Basseterre, St. Kitts, on Friday afternoon (Good Friday Apr. 18th). Based on information from the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC), the...