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This Grenada Festival Lets You Dive, Learn, and Help Save the Ocean
Caribbean Journal
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July 15, 2025
You rise early in Grenada, where the sea is still silver and calm, and the scent of salt clings to the breeze. Wetsuit on, tank checked, mask fogged and cleared. You descend into another world—where coral blooms like wildflowers and sea turtles...
Thai beauty queen Suchata “Opal” Chuangsri crowned Miss World 2025
The Nation Thailand
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June 1, 2025
The announcement of the final eight contestants followed, featuring representatives from Brazil, Martinique, Ethiopia, Namibia, Poland, Ukraine, the Philippines, and Thailand. The competition then entered its most challenging phase, where the...
The Radical Roots of Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatry
New Lines Magazine
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July 11, 2025
In January 1940, a mustachioed Catalonian anarcho-communist arrived at the door of the Saint-Alban psychiatric asylum in the mountains of southwestern France. The doctor wore round spectacles; his wild, curly hair grew out sideways from a...
Opal Suchata Chuangsri from Thailand crowned Miss World 2025: Check her age, education, other achievements
The Economic Times
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May 31, 2025
Opal Suchata Chuangsri from Thailand has been crowned Miss World 2025. Miss Ethiopia was named first runner-up, followed by Miss Poland in third place and Miss Martinique in fourth. Opal Suchata Chuangsri was previously crowned Miss World Thailand...
French ambassador: T&T’s trade with Europe unequal
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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French ambassador to T&T, Didier Chabert, is hopeful that a solution to the foreign exchange crisis would be found in the interest of the country’s economy. In an interview with the Sunday Business Guardian, Chabert said...
Opal Chuangsri makes history and headlines as Thailand’s first Miss World
Malay Mail
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June 1, 2025
HYDERABAD, June 1 — Thailand has won its first Miss World crown after 22-year-old Suchata “Opal” Chuangsri claimed the title at the 72nd Miss World pageant held in Hyderabad on Saturday. According to Bangkok Post, Opal, a political science...
Cryopreservation is not sci-fi. It may save plants from extinction
Science News
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May 15, 2025
Early one morning in 1985, a pair of researchers trekked into a spit of Colombian rainforest surrounded by coffee plantations. Their task was to identify all the epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — in the forest canopy. As Jan Wolf, a...
Remembering the BUMIDOM
Pursuit
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In 1963, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe were experiencing economic decline and people were demanding independence from France. Mainland France, meanwhile, was in desperate need of a workforce to rebuild the country after...
Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives With Dr. Tayzhuan Glover
The Bay Net - Maryland
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July 10, 2025
HOLLYWOOD, Md. – Historic Sotterley is proud to announce a free hybrid presentation by Dr. Tayzhuan Glover exploring the stories of enslaved men, women, and children from Sotterley who secured their freedom by aiding the British during the war of...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
'The Rebel’s Clinic': Frantz Fanon's legacy in a new era of colonial genocide
Middle East Eye
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July 11, 2025
Adam Shatz’s new book is a masterful tribute to one of the 20th century’s most influential anti-colonial thinkers. Written with intellectual richness and narrative verve, his biography of Frantz Fanon brims with historical depth and contemporary...
Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to Bogart and Bacall in two-part series
Clark County Today - Washington State
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July 9, 2025
Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to the two Hollywood legends in a two-part series running in July and August VANCOUVER – The first time they performed together, in the 1943 motion picture “To Have and Have Not,” Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall...
June 2025 was the planet’s third-warmest on record
Yale Climate Connections - Connecticut
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July 10, 2025
June 2025 was Earth’s third-warmest June in analyses of global weather data going back to 1850, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported July 10. NASA and the European Copernicus Climate Change Service also rated...
Fascism’s New Face is Still The Same!
teleSUR
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On July 3, the Meeting of Promoting Teams of the Antifascist International is taking place at a right time. The stated objective is “to update and strengthen our shared agenda in a critical moment of regional and global tension amid the escalation...
What Was Paul Gauguin Looking For?
The New Yorker
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July 11, 2025
In June, 1891, Paul Gauguin arrived in Tahiti. He was forty-three. With him—according to Sue Prideaux, whose new biography of Gauguin, “Wild Thing,” is the first to appear in English in thirty years—he carried “a hundred meters of canvas, a large...
The Trimaran SVR-Lazartigue is back at sea
Sail-World
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July 4, 2025
by Trimaran SVR-LAZARTIGUE 3 Jul 22:14 PDT 3 July 2025 After a refit that began in March, the Trimaran SVR-Lazartigue was relaunched this Thursday, July 3. Lined up for the months ahead is an exciting race programme, culminating this year with the...
Today’s Barbados Bye-election — A Boost for Regional Integration!
The Voice
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May 21, 2025
Chronicles of a Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet Caribbean eyes are on Barbados today, fixed and focused on the island’s first electoral contest ahead of the republic’s next big General Elections. Observers’ eyes are wide-open on the...
Settler Colonialism in Light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 1)
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution. Originally published in...
Settler Colonialism in light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today...
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolutionary violence in return....
Rana Mohip meets Narendra Modi: Binding two nations through song
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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July 9, 2025
Features Newsday 8 Hrs Ago India's Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi greets Rana Mohip while Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and Minister Barry Padarath look on. - BAVINA SOOKDEO THE lines from the devotional song Vaishnav Jan To, speak of a...