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Health minister urges UN, WHO to slam, halt Israel’s aggression
Tehran Times
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June 18, 2025
TEHRAN – Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarqandi has called on the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and the World Health Organization’s director for the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, Hanan Hassan Balkhi, to...
Health services face legal risk over poor quality care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients
Croakey Health Media
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June 18, 2025
*** Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article mentions someone who has died *** An urgent need to improve healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and to progress structural reform are among the...
Government-backed scheme helps Scots get on the property ladder
Glasgow Live
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June 18, 2025
Home ownership in Glasgow could be within reach for many Scots, thanks to the Scottish Government’s LIFT Open Market Shared Equity (OMSE) scheme*. The initiative provides substantial financial aid to individuals in priority groups, allowing them...
Regional newspapers are the media source most trusted by the Spanish public
SUR in English
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June 18, 2025
Local and regional newspapers are the media that inspire the greatest confidence among Spanish people when it comes to becoming informed. This is certified by the Digital News Report Spain 2025, the study on news demand in the country and its main...
Politics: 2025Talks - June 18, 2025
Kiowa County Press - Colorado
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Politics and views in the United States. Trump's big budget and policy act faces pushback from clean energy advocates and small businesses. A federal court weighs legality of deploying the California National Guard over the governor's objections....
Politics with Michelle Grattan: an ‘impatient’ Jim Chalmers on taking political risks in Labor’s second term
The Conversation
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June 18, 2025
While the world’s media is largely focused on conflict in the Middle East, the focus for many Australians remains at home, with the government preparing the long task ahead of trying to lift Australia’s productivity. Last week, Prime Minister...
Politics and criminality
The Nassau Guardian
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Dear Editor, “Understanding victims and victimization has required more than merely analyzing criminal justice, but rather much wider social, political, and economic relations.” — Robert Elias, “The Politics of Victimization Victims, Victimology,...
Region officials issue statements on PVH: Padilla, Gonzalez, Perez address Blythe hospital woes
The Palo Verde Valley Times - California
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Palo Verde Hospital’s (PVH) ongoing financial strife and community discord continues to careen across Blythe, with now regional officials also reacting to the facility’s uncertain fallout. As previously reported by the Times, PVH is currently in...
Regional Development Minister: BGN 6.5 Billion EU Investment to Support Bulgaria’s Green Transition
Bulgarian News Agency
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Bulgaria has a budget of BGN 6.5 billion under the Regional Development Programme for the 2021–2027 period in support of sustainable regional development, said Regional Development and Public Works Minister Ivan Ivanov on Wednesday. He was...
Regional Festivities Mark Juneteenth Holiday
U.S.1 Princeton Info - New Jersey
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Masters of Soul, A Motown Review anchors the Princeton Festival’s Juneteenth observance on Thursday, June 19. Photo by LCCC-Ron Jantz. The Princeton Festival celebrates the contributions of Motown to popular culture and the Civil Rights Movement...
Region 15 Students Honored with 2025 Litchfield County Superintendent’s Awards
Voices News - Connecticut
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MIDDLEBURY–SOUTHBURY — Superintendent of Region 15 Schools Joshua Smith recently announced the 2025 recipients of the Litchfield County Superintendent’s Association (LCSA) awards. This annual recognition, sponsored by the Connecticut Association...
Healthcare worker gets prison rerm for drug dealing
Shore Daily News - Virginia
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June 18, 2025
By Linda Cicoira A 54-year-old health care worker was sentenced Monday in Northampton Circuit Court to three ten-year terms in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine in 2023. The terms were set to run concurrently, with all but a...
International Sushi Day: The many twists on Japan’s most iconic dish
Hindustan Times
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June 18, 2025
A dish from the land of the rising sun, Japan—sushi, made with vinegared rice and paired with raw fish, vegetables, or seaweed—is loved globally in different shapes, flavours, and cultural twists. On International Sushi Day, today, we look at how...
Government must address ‘crisis of instability’ in Victoria’s rental market: REIV
Real Estate Business
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June 17, 2025
The Real Estate Institute of Victoria has stressed the need for reforms that will increase investor confidence and recentre the balance of power in the state’s tightened rental market. The Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) has called on the...
International Day Against Hate Speech: Guterres advocates using AI as a “force for good”
Sene News
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June 18, 2025
Make an international commitment at all levels to use artificial intelligence (AI) not as a tool of hate, but rather as a “force for good.” This was the message delivered Wednesday by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, on the...
Government investing in 10 AI projects and net zero carbon goals
Taipei Times
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June 17, 2025
The National Development Council is developing 10 major artificial intelligence (AI) projects to advance Taiwan’s AI infrastructure, Executive Yuan Secretary-General Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫) said today. Kung was speaking at Business Today's Taiwan...
Political violence reax not a game
Newsday - New York
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Decorum in the United States Senate generally calls for chamber members to avoid direct personal confrontations. So it was somewhat unprecedented when Minnesota's Tina Smith sought out Utah's Mike Lee in a hallway off the Senate floor Monday...
Political opinion: Aylesbury MP celebrates Labour government’s “transformative” new £19.2 million investment in transport networks in Buckinghamshire
Bucks Herald
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June 18, 2025
Laura Kyrke-Smith, Member of Parliament for Aylesbury and the villages, has today celebrated Labour’s announcement of £19.2m for transport networks in Buckinghamshire, describing it as “transformative”. The money, which comes as part of the recent...
Politics LIVE: Labour plummets to RECORD LOW in new poll as Keir Starmer's party sinks to third place
GB News
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June 18, 2025
Labour has been handed a fresh polling blow after falling to a record-low third place in a new survey. Data from pollsters at More In Common has revealed that just 21 per cent of Britons would vote for Keir Starmer's party - lower than...
Government to Allocate 5% of GDP to Supporting Families
Hungary Today
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June 18, 2025
On the second day of the Budapest Global Dialogue 2025 conference, Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, emphasized Hungary’s commitment to supporting families, Index reported. In his speech, he highlighted that in the near...