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Q House Celebrates Juneteenth Blowout
New Haven Independent - Connecticut
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June 23, 2025
Jisu Sheen photos 2-year-old Skylar preparing for a carnival game. Jisu Sheen The Mighty Marching Blue Machine, a New Haven-based band of kids from ages 13 to 24. Girls basketball in the gym. “It’s been a robust day,” said Kara Wallace at an...
WHO: Tobacco kills 1.3m non-smokers annually
Prompt News Online
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June 25, 2025
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that approximately 1.3 million people die each year from exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke, stressing the urgent need for stronger global tobacco control measures. This warning was included in...
APC Flagbearer Aspirant JFK Criticizes Bio’s Government Over Freedom of Expression
Sierraloaded
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June 23, 2025
Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK), a flagbearer aspirant of the All People’s Congress (APC), has raised concerns about laws he believes are limiting free speech and civic space under the current government. Speaking in a recent interview on an online...
Tobacco kills over seven million people annually – WHO
Premium Times
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June 24, 2025
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised alarm over the global death toll linked to tobacco use, warning that more than seven million people die each year from tobacco-related causes. This was disclosed in its newly released Global Tobacco...
Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Today, Monday, 23rd June, 2025
Naija News
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June 23, 2025
Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to the Naija News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Monday, 23rd June, 2025 President Bola Tinubu has condemned the weekend suicide bombing in Konduga, Borno State, describing the act as a...
Tobacco kills 1.3 million non-smokers yearly — WHO
Punch
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June 24, 2025
Around 1.3 million people die from second-hand smoke every year, according to a World Health Organisation report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025. The report released at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin warned that action is...
What we’re watching: Weekly disaster update, June 23
Center for Disaster Philanthropy
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June 23, 2025
We know all too well that disaster can strike anytime, anywhere in the world. Some disasters make headlines; others do not. Here at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP), we monitor the status of disasters worldwide and compile a list of the...
Trump’s Quiet War On Black Migrants
NewsOne
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June 24, 2025
Source: Mario Tama / Getty A really close friend of mine, who is Ethiopian, has lived in New York City since she was 16. Now, in her mid-30s, she’s being threatened with deportation after making the city her home for more than half of her life....
Latoya Lovell’s Island Shack bringsTrini soul to Fort Greene, Brooklyn
CNC 3
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July 6, 2025
From being born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago to making waves in the buzzing borough of Brooklyn, Latoya Lovell has stirred her dreams into a pot of Caribbean flavours and poured them straight into the heart of New York. At 40, the self-taught...
Africa launches second phase of phytosanitary programme to...
George Herald
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According to the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) data, fall armyworm alone is estimated to cause the highest yield loss in Africa – USD 9.4 billion annually. AGRICULTURE NEWS - The Department of Agriculture, in...
Tobacco Control Efforts Protect 6.1 Billion People, But Over 1 Billion Still at Risk — WHO’s New Report
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, June, 24, 2025 (ENA)— More than 6.1 billion people—roughly three-quarters of the global population—are now protected by at least one tobacco control measure under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) MPOWER strategy. This milestone...
Tobacco Control Protecting 6.1bn People, Says WHO in New Report
Nigerian Current
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June 24, 2025
The World Health Organisation (WHO) today released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin, warning that action is needed to maintain and accelerate progress in tobacco control as rising...
Tobacco control efforts protect 6.1 billion people
New Business Ethiopia
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June 24, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that action is needed to maintain and accelerate progress in tobacco control as rising industry interference challenges tobacco policies and control efforts. This is stated in WHO’s new report on the...
Goldstar Air, The Wings Of Ghana And Belly Of America Marks 249th Independence Day Of The United States
News Ghana
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July 4, 2025
The United States and Ghanaian registered company Goldstar Air, a private international airline with an issued Air Carrier Licence (ACL/N-SCH No. 0239) from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to operate passenger and cargo flights across...
Fact Check: Did President Donald Trump Really Ban Americans From Leaving the Country?
Green Matters
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June 23, 2025
Amid escalating global tensions, travel may be dangerous. Amid dangerously high tensions in certain parts of the world, many throughout the U.S. have wondered if President Donald Trump has banned Americans from leaving the country until further...
Over 6 billion people worldwide are exposed to at least one key anti-tobacco measure
Scimex Newsfeed
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June 23, 2025
From: World Health Organization (WHO) Tobacco control efforts protect 6.1 billion people – WHO’s new report 23 June 2025, Dublin/Geneva—The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World...
Medications are in storage, approaching their expiration dates and may be destroyed
The New Zealand Herald
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June 22, 2025
Each tax dollar invested in mass administration of drugs like these leverages US$26 in donated medicines, making the effort astoundingly cost-effective. One of the medications languishing in this warehouse is sufficient to protect 7.6 million...
Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations (FAO) And International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Launch Second Phase Of The Africa Phytosanitary Programme
MENAFN
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June 23, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), in collaboration with the Government of South Africa, represented by the Department of Agriculture,...
Preedy premieres new soca love song
Trinidad Express
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Freestyle Champion, Preedy (Akeem Chance) premiered his soca love song “My Girl” with an accompanying video last Wednesday night, at an official launch. Scores of female fans, industry professionals and media personalities assembled at CB’s on...
‘The world is cutting foreign aid – but there is a better way to tackle the climate crisis’
The Independent
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June 23, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...