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Natural Diamond Council Releases First Ever Fancy Colour Diamond Report to Celebrate Nature's Rarest and Most Colourful Treasures
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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From rare purple diamond discoveries to record-breaking sales, Paris Couture Week kicks off with a bang as new first-of-its-kind report presents the world's most coveted and rarest fancy colour diamonds. LONDON, July 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As the...
Nine dead in pirogue shipwreck off Guinea-Bissau coast
Xinhua News Agency
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BISSAU, June 26 (Xinhua) -- A pirogue capsized Wednesday evening off the coast of the Bijagos Islands in Guinea-Bissau, leaving nine of its 27 passengers dead, local media reported Thursday, citing eyewitness accounts of the tragedy. The alert was...
Pre-Season: Enyimba, 3SC ready for Eko International Cup
The Sun Nigeria
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July 3, 2025
Two elite teams in the Nigeria Professional Football League, Enyimba of Aba and Shooting Stars of Ibadan have declared readiness for the forthcoming pre-season football tournament tagged Eko International Cup. A total of eight teams are billed to...
Delays and cancellations at London Gatwick today so far on Thursday, July 3 including multiple easyJet flights
Sussex World
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July 3, 2025
These are the delays and cancellations to and from London Gatwick today so far (Thursday, July 3). Watch as passengers give their views on London Gatwick airport's state-of-the-art security process Getting through security at London Gatwick...
Nigeria moves to overcome hurdles in regional trade integration
Punch
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July 2, 2025
Despite its dominance in regional trade, Nigeria faces structural and policy barriers that limit the full realisation of intra-ECOWAS commerce, including poor infrastructure, fragmented customs systems, and currency mismatches. The 2025 West...
Pawtucket Police Log June 30 - July 3
The Blackstone Valley Call & Times - Rhode Island
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At 10:25 a.m., police took into custody Ramon Adorno of 127 Harrison St. (Apt. 1), Pawtucket, on a warrant at Black Lives Matter, 225 Main St. At 12:19 p.m., officers apprehended Carlos Acevedo Cardona of 80 Hedley Ave., Central Falls, for...
The truth of slavery in our blood
Altoona Mirror - Pennsylvania
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With a last name like Feldkamp, I fully expected my DNA results from 23andMe to confirm what I thought I already knew. My ancestry is predominantly German. But it turns out that no, it isn’t. I’m mostly British and Irish with less than 2% of my...
Enyimba, Shooting Stars Ready for Eko International Cup
This Day
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July 3, 2025
Two elite teams in the Nigeria Premier Football League, Enyimba of Aba and Shooting Stars of Ibadan have declared their readiness for the forthcoming pre-season football tournament tagged Eko International Cup. A total of eight teams are billed to...
African Roots of a Caribbean Odyssey of Occultism in the Age of Internet | Part 3
The Voice
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July 2, 2025
Chronicles of a Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet It was always just a matter of time before Saint Lucia’s political opposition, ahead of an election it can’t see any way of winning by the ballot, would choose to take advantage of...
’Not something to celebrate’: As it turns 80 and faces dwindling global clout, can the UN survive？
Edmonton Sun
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Breadcrumb Trail Links World Author of the article: Associated Press Edith M. Lederer Published Jun 25, 2025 • 7 minute read Flagpoles line in rows in front of a building of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 14, 2021. Photo by Markus...
He pioneered cellphone. It changed how people around world talk to each other
ETTelecom.com
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July 2, 2025
Martin Cooper, who led the team that built the first mobile cellphone, sits behind a prototype of that phone at his home, April 4, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Del Mar, US: Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946....
How 'blood gold' is fuelling conflict in West Africa
BBC
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July 1, 2025
Jacob BoswallBBC Monitoring ShareSave It has been a good year for gold. A host of turbulent events in the global economy has driven up prices for the glittery commodity to record highs in 2025. In a world of tariffs and international conflict,...
He pioneered cellphone, and it changed how people around world talk to each other
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 2, 2025
Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola's research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan was locked in a 1970s...
Fatima Bio Not Qualified to Contest as SLPP Flagbearer – Civil Society Activist
Sierraloaded
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June 19, 2025
The Executive Director of Fambul Tok, John Caulker, has categorically stated that First Lady Fatima Bio is not qualified to contest for the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) flagbearer position. Caulker make this statement during an interview on...
Nigeria to Launch ‘Africans for Africa Fund’ at AFNIS 2025
This Day
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July 2, 2025
Folalumi Alaran in Abuja The federal government has disclosed plans to formally launch the “Africans for Africa Fund” at the forthcoming African Natural Resources and Energy Investment Summit (AFNIS) scheduled to hold from July 15 to 17, 2025, in...
World News | He Pioneered Cellphone. It Changed How People Around World Talk to Each Other
Latestly
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July 2, 2025
Del Mar (US), Jul 2 (AP) Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola's research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan...
He pioneered the cellphone, changing how people connect — and disconnect — globally
ABC News - New York
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July 2, 2025
DEL MAR, Calif. -- Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola’s research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan was...
He pioneered the cellphone. It changed how people around the world talk to each other —...
Journal News - Ohio
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Fifty-two years ago, Cooper declared victory in a call from a Manhattan sidewalk to the head of AT&T's rival program. His four-pound DynaTAC 8000X has evolved into a global population of billions of smartphones weighing mere ounces apiece. Some...
He pioneered the cellphone. It changed how people around the world talk to each other — and don’t
Associated Press
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July 2, 2025
DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola’s research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan was...
Randeep Hooda Shares New Look: Coffee Isn't The Only Thing That's Brewing
MENAFN
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June 24, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Mumbai, June 24 (IANS) Actor Randeep Hooda on Tuesday created a tizzy on social media as he shared a new look and cryptically said“coffee isn't the only thing that's brewing.” Randeep took to Instagram, where he shared his new look,...