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Hometown Hero: Blessings Community Store in Zurich helping families for 40 years
Exeter Lakeshore Times-Advance
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September 3, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Founded in 1985, Blessings Community Store assists local families through its food bank and thrift store. This is Part Five of Postmedia’s How Canada Wins: Love Where We Live summer series. More than 40...
Peru’s ex-president Toledo gets a second sentence in the Odebrecht corruption scandal
SRN News
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September 3, 2025
Audio By Carbonatix LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo was sentenced to prison Wednesday for the second time in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. Toledo received a sentence of 13 years and four...
BlueCo & Strasbourg’s move for Julio Enciso on standby over medical exams on player’s knee
Get French Football News
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August 26, 2025
3According to a report from L’Équipe, BlueCo and Strasbourg are awaiting medical exams before moving forward with a deal for Brighton & Hove Albion attacking midfielder Julio Enciso (21). The Paraguay international is currently undergoing further...
Health caution ahead of CARIFESTA XV festivities
Barbados Today
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August 22, 2025
123 As Barbados prepares to welcome thousands of performers, delegates and visitors for the regional showcase of CARIFESTA XV, the head of the local medical association urged the public to exercise increased health precautions amid rising COVID-19...
Tom Stevenson: The Mask Is Off
London Review of Books
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September 11, 2025
For four decades El Salvador was known for death squads and civil war, and then for gang violence. But now, under President Nayib Bukele, the gangs that carved up the country have been routed. The members of the pandillas – the two main gangs...
Migrant from Ecuador fatally struck on Loop 375, investigation underway
KDBC - Texas
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EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14/CBS4) — A 35-year-old woman who was struck and killed on Loop 375 near the Paisano exit on August 18 has been identified as a migrant from Ecuador, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday. Officials said...
Mounting Concerns over China’s Advances in Ecuador’s Oil Sector
Dialogo Americas
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August 25, 2025
Ecuador’s state-owned EP Petroecuador announced in early May it hired Chinese state-owned Sinopec for a drilling campaign to boost oil production by 12,000 barrels per day. This move underscores Beijing’s deepening yet concerning influence in the...
Canada needs to reset its free trade plans with Ecuador
MiningWatch Canada
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Peggy Nash, Viviana Herrera and Caren Weisbart, originally published in the Hill Times Human rights, not corporate rights, should drive international trade relations under this new government. International relations today are rife with difficult...
Ecuador’s Health Minister responds after deaths of babies
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 10, 2025
The minister announced the opening of an investigation by a specialized team to clarify what happened to at least a dozen newborns in July, although the news only came to light this August. Local media reported the deaths of 18 newborns due to a...
US Strikes Alleged Venezuelan Drug Vessel, Killing 11; Maduro Condemns US ‘Immoral Threat’
Venezuelanalysis
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September 3, 2025
US authorities have not provided reliable data on the location of the destroyed vessel, its alleged drug cargo, nor the identification of its 11 crew members. (Screenshot) Caracas, September 3, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – US military forces...
The making of an autonomous Indigenous nation in Peru’s Amazon
Mongabay
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September 3, 2025
The Wampís Indigenous people of northern Peru have spent decades resisting the expansion of oil drilling and other extractive projects in their Amazonian territory. In 2015, they became the first Indigenous group in the country to declare...
Jen Affleck reveals painful bruises from intense Dancing With the Stars rehearsals
The Economic Times
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September 3, 2025
Jen Affleck, widely popular for her role in Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, is returning back into the spotlight, this time with her participation in the dance floor. Just two months after welcoming her third child, she has joined Dancing...
EU Commission gives green light to agreements with Mercosur and Mexico
Materia Rinnovabile | Renewable Matter
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This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The European Commission has taken a decisive step to reshape the European Union’s trade landscape, presenting to the Council its proposals for the...
This simple neck test could predict your risk of heart disease, even an early death
The Times of India
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In the era of medical advancements and innovative technologies, a plethora of medical screenings are available for detecting diseases early so that patients can access treatments and have a shot at keeping their quality of life intact. However,...
AMERICA/ECUADOR - "I must be a missionary": Sister Maria Troncatti will be proclaimed a Saint during World Mission Sunday 2025
Fides
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August 22, 2025
Friday, 22 August 2025 Istituto Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice Quito (Agenzia Fides) – "I must be a missionary" is the promise that characterized the entire work of Italian nun Maria Troncatti, a missionary of the Salesian Sisters, who will be...
The Latest: 2 more GOP House members must join all Democrats to force Epstein files vote
Idaho State Journal
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Four Republicans — three of them women — have defied House GOP leadership and the White House in an effort to force a vote on a bill that would require the Justice Department to release all the information in the so-called Epstein files, with the...
Ecuadorians Rally in Quito to Defend Constitutional Court Judges
teleSUR
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August 15, 2025
Ecuadorians protesting in Quito, Aug. 14, 2025. X/ @LaPeriodicanet August 15, 2025 Hour: 12:14 pm On Thursday, thousands of Ecuadorians took to the streets of Quito to defend the judges of the Constitutional Court and protest against President...
Maximum Tolerated Medical Therapy for Glaucoma: Fixed-Dose Combinations of Timolol, Dorzolamide, Brimonidine with Latanoprost Versus Timolol, Dorzolamide with Latanoprost
Dove Medical Press
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August 21, 2025
Introduction Glaucoma is a group of progressive optic neuropathies characterized by the loss of retinal ganglion cells and their axons.1 POAG is the predominant subtype in Mexico and Latin America, contributing significantly to vision loss and...
The very best pictures of 2024 — and the stories behind them
The Times
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It’s been a seismic year, with voters in more than 60 countries going to the polls, often with the aim of ousting incumbents. Labour won by a landslide in the UK, and Donald Trump — revitalised after a close encounter with a would-be assassin’s...
El cerco de EE.UU. en el Caribe amenaza con desviar las rutas de droga y ampliar la presión sobre el Pacífico, dicen expertos
KVIA - Texas
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September 3, 2025
Por Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español El despliegue de buques de guerra estadounidenses en el Caribe que domina la atención de gran parte de los países de la región desde hace algunos días podría desviar las rutas del tráfico de drogas hacia uno...