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Tens of thousands of passengers face another day of travel hell amid French air traffic control strikes... as chaos hits Eurostar and UK airports
Daily Mail
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July 3, 2025
Thousands of British holidaymakers have had their travel plans disrupted after nearly 200 flights were cancelled due to striking workers in France. Budget airline on Thursday Ryanair slashed more than 160 flights because of French air traffic...
France to build high-security prison for traffickers and extremists in Amazon Jungle
Khaama Press
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May 20, 2025
France plans to build a high-security prison in the Amazon to detain drug traffickers and extremists, opening by 2028. French media reports that the country plans to build a high-security prison in the French Guiana region, deep in the Amazon...
French air traffic strike disrupts 300,000 passengers, cancels flights
Newstalk ZB
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July 4, 2025
Tens of thousands of passengers across Europe have been affected as French air traffic controllers began a two-day strike at the start of a busy summer holiday season to protest against understaffing and “toxic management”. The strike by two...
France to build jungle prison to hold drug kingpins
AOL
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Gerald Darmanin, right, France’s minister of justice and Jean-Paul Fereira, the first vice-president of the French Guiana Territorial Authority, arrive for their meeting in South America - RONAN LIETAR/AFPFrance is to build a high-security prison...
French air traffic controllers strike hits European summer travel
The Peninsula
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July 3, 2025
Planes are seen on the tarmac of Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport, outside Paris, on July 3, 2025, as French air traffic controllers launched a two-day strike to demand better working conditions, disrupting travel for tens of thousands of people...
Yellow Fever Resurgence Could Make COVID Look 'Pale' by Comparison
ScienceAlert
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May 20, 2025
Yellow fever is a dangerous mosquito-borne virus that, for hundreds of years, has caused sporadic, deadly outbreaks in the tropics of South America, Central America, and Africa. According to a new perspective from infectious disease specialists...
Origami helps behavioral health patient find healing through art
York County News - Pennsylvania
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July 3, 2025
Anthony Aquilina, DO Executive Vice President and Chief Physician Executive | WellSpan HospitalsAnthony Aquilina, DO Executive Vice President and Chief Physician Executive | WellSpan Hospitals Over the past year, WellSpan Philhaven hospital in...
The launch of ESA's Biomass: A European leap into Earth observation | Euronews Tech Talks
Euronews
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May 15, 2025
Over 95 per cent of French Guiana - a French overseas department nestled between Brazil and Suriname - is covered in tropical forests, a wild, thick, humid ecosystem found in regions near the equator. Tropical forests play an important role in...
Portuguese Innovation Powers Europe’s Climate Satellites
The Portugal News
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The mission, called CO2M (Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring), is being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) in partnership with the European Commission under the Copernicus Earth observation program. The mission will see...
SURINAME: WHO certifies Suriname malaria-free
Loop News
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CMC – The World Health Organization (WHO) says Suriname has become the first country in the Amazon region to receive malaria-free certification following nearly 70 years of commitment by the government and people of the Dutch-speaking Caribbean...
WHO certifies Suriname malaria-free
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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The World Health Organization (WHO) says Suriname has became the first country in the Amazon region to receive malaria-free certification following nearly 70 years of commitment by the government and people of the...
Discourse on French Colonialism in the 21st Century
Africa is a country
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Martinican author Aimé Césaire—long revered as one of the early founders of France’s Négritude movement, cultivating Black consciousness alongside Léopold Senghor and the Nardal sisters—has long been canonized in historical memory as one of the...
Dinosaurs Deserve So Much Better Than Jurassic World Rebirth
The Stranger - Washington State
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July 2, 2025
Jurassic World Rebirth will bring in a billion dollars at the box office. Which makes this review mostly inconsequential. Look in your heart; you know this to be the case. Despite unanimous critical consensus that the franchise's previous film...
WHO certifies Suriname as malaria free after decades of efforts
Medical News
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June 30, 2025
Today, Suriname became the first country in the Amazon region to receive malaria-free certification from the World Health Organization (WHO). This historic milestone follows nearly 70 years of commitment by the government and people of Suriname to...
Suriname certified malaria-free by WHO
Pan American Health Organization
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June 30, 2025
June 30, 2025 (PAHO) | Geneva – Today, Suriname became the first country in the Amazon region to receive malaria-free certification from the World Health Organization (WHO). This historic milestone follows nearly 70 years of commitment by the...
NASA budget cuts threaten Europe's already troubled flagship Mars rover
Space.com
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June 30, 2025
Cuts to NASA's budget proposed by President Donald Trump would likely cause further delays to Europe's ExoMars rover mission, due to the fact that some critical technologies currently unavailable in Europe were to be provided by the American space...
Europe Just Banned All Flights From These Two Countries
Simple Flying
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June 6, 2025
The European Commission (EC) has recently made waves in the global aviation industry, as they have updated the EU Air Safety List. According to a ch-aviation report, the new list excludes all carriers certified in Suriname and Tanzania, banning...
Summer sizzlers! It’s the 20 hottest TV shows of the season
The Guardian
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June 27, 2025
Squid Game The big one. The uberviolent South Korean juggernaut – still Netflix’s most popular show ever – reaches the end point … and Player 456 is still in the game. What will happen after the armed rebellion? Will he figure out he’s playing...
Food in the “Great Land of Guyana”
Stabroek News
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June 16, 2025
Geoffrey Giddings, Ph.D. is a Guyanese American, educator, researcher, 2024 Fulbright U.S. Scholar, and a consultant on cuisine culture. One of life’s great pleasures is meeting and learning from new people. I had the privilege, thanks to a...
Astor Johnson Rep Dance Co presents She Too
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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June 27, 2025
Features Sean Douglas 57 Minutes Ago AJRDT perform a dance named Sorrows featuring Leah Gordon - THE Astor Johnson Repertory Dance Theatre (AJRDT), along with Los Alamitos Ballet Theatre, California, USA, will present a tribute to women called She...