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These Creepy Arachnids Live On Your Face & Crawl Out Of Your Pores At Night
The Travel
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February 15, 2025
Our planet is full of strange bugs all over the world, like the bizarre insect that saws tiny sticks and build little log cabins. There are also kamikaze insects with explosive backpacks that blow themselves up in French Guiana, and the world's...
5 of the most memorable prayers of Pope Francis’ pontificate
Catholic News Agency
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April 26, 2025
Vatican City, Apr 26, 2025 / 08:00 am Pope Francis’ pontificate spanned 12 years and numerous major global events — including international gatherings, the COVID-19 crisis, and the Synod on Synodality — that saw him delivering prayers often under...
Apply for EU’s 2025 Jumpstarter programme for innovators by April 2
Balkan Green Energy News
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March 21, 2025
EIT Jumpstarter offers a seven-month pre-acceleration programme for early-stage innovators. Participants can compete to win EUR 2,500, EUR 5,000, or EUR 10,000 across eight categories. They are Food & Agritech, Healthcare, Advanced and Green...
Carifta: a true highlight of regional unity
Trinidad Express
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April 24, 2025
At a time when the regional West Indies cricket team struggles to be globally competitive, it is refreshing to note the hype given to the 2025 edition of the Carifta Games, hosted in Port of Spain. This tournament operates under the guidelines and...
Shriners Children’s Patients Take Center Stage in Concacaf Nations League Finals and Gold Cup
I News Cayman
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March 18, 2025
Shriners Children’s to be featured during Concacaf’s premier men’s soccer events in 14 stadiums across North America Miami, FL (Tuesday, March 18, 2025) – Shriners Children’s and Concacaf have announced a partnership that will shine a global...
State Department Issues Travel Warning for Popular Caribbean Country
Fodors Travel Guide
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April 23, 2025
Level 3: Reconsider Travel. The U.S. State Department is warning American citizens against travel to Colombia, suggesting that they defer plans to visit the country. On April 17, the State Department increased the travel advisory level for...
UK launches world’s first 3D forest mapping satellite to help fight climate change
Open Access Government
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April 25, 2025
The mission, named Biomass, will be the first in the world to create 3D maps of the Earth’s tropical forests from space, offering a new view of forest structure and carbon storage. Forest mapping: Using 3D tech to fight climate change Developed...
七尾市（石川県）Nanao City
PreventionWeb
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April 23, 2025
Themes - Any - Advocacy and media Capacity development Children and Youth Civil Society/NGOs Climate change Community-based DRR Critical infrastructure Cultural heritage Disaster risk management Early warning Economics of DRR Education and school...
Hallucinations and 3hrs sleep a day on 21-year-old’s record Atlantic voyage
The Times
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Zara Lachlan was not at her brightest when she decided to row from Portugal to French Guiana. Two weeks before the plan settled conclusively in her mind, she was the passenger in an old BMW when the driver lost control and collided with a stone...
Rest in eternal peace Pope Francis
The National
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Rising with the risen Christ, Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church died on Easter Monday. The Pope of the pheripheries, we called him, when he visited last September, in a visit we are certain he knew to be his last. Sick and wheel-chair...
Where are tiger mosquitoes in France as presence increases, and what to do about them
The Connexion
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March 7, 2025
The mosquitoes become active in spring, and are now in 78 of 96 departments Tiger mosquitoes are spreading in France, and are a major vector for diseases including dengue frank60 / Jarun Ontakrai / Shutterstock Tiger mosquitoes - which can carry...
Haitian reparations to France back on the agenda, 200 years ...
Modern Ghana
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French President Emmanuel Macron has announced he intends to set up a joint Franco-Haitian commission to examine France's history with its former colony and its impact on the country's development since its independence – notably the demand that...
UPSC Key: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Genome India Project and European Space Agency’s (ESA) Biomass Mission
The Indian Express
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April 14, 2025
High-stakes trade race, India banks on market muscle for early US deal Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance. Main Examination: General Studies II: Effect of policies and politics of developed...
Where bees won’t go: The unloved pollinators of the underworld
Lanka News Web
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April 18, 2025
New research is showing just how much plants and crops rely on a host of darkness-dwelling creepy crawlies. Think pollination, and you will likely picture a butterfly or bee flitting between flowers. But while these are indeed important...
UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz : Science and Technology MCQs on average temperatures of planets, deficiency of magnesium and more (Week 105)
The Indian Express
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April 9, 2025
UPSC Essentials brings to you its initiative of subject-wise quizzes. These quizzes are designed to help you revise some of the most important topics from the static part of the syllabus. Attempt today’s subject quiz on Science and Technology to...
The beneficial side of cockroaches and moths
BBC
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Zaria Gorvett, Sophie Hardach, Katherine Latham, Matthew Ponsford and Jocelyn Timperley ShareSave The white-lined sphinx moth, sometimes known as a "hummingbird moth", is a widespread pollinator (Credit: Alamy)New research is showing just how much...
Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests
Canada's National Observer
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April 16, 2025
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Scientists are about to take part in a revolutionary mission aimed at creating detailed 3D maps of the world’s remotest, densest and...
Airbus Delivers First Two New H225M Caracal Helicopters to French Air Force
The Aviationist
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January 23, 2025
The two H225Ms are the first of eight helicopters ordered in 2021 and will replace Pumas currently in service with French detachments in French Guiana, Djibouti and New Caledonia. Airbus Helicopters announced on Jan. 17, 2025 the delivery to the...
Netanyahu's son lashes out at Macron over Palestine recognition
The New Arab
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April 13, 2025
Yair Netanyahu, son of Israel's embattled prime minister [Yair Netanyahu / YouTube] As international momentum builds toward recognising a Palestinian state, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son has launched a tirade against French...
Marking A Major Milestone In Preparation Of ESA’s Biomass Satellite
Renewable Energy Magazine
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Once launched and commissioned for its working life in orbit around Earth, this new ESA Earth Explorer mission will demonstrate how new technology can deliver crucial information about the state of our forests and how they are changing and,...