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Canadian Stocks Climb As U.S.-Canada Talks Continue
RTTNews
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July 25, 2025
Canada's stock market scaled a new high on Friday as traders expressed optimism in the continuing high-level U.S.-Canada trade negotiations even as August 1 deadline is closing in. After opening just around Thursday's close, the benchmark S&P/TSX...
Kathy Castor urges stronger worker protections amid Tampa Bay heatwave
Tampa Republic - Florida
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July 29, 2025
Kathy Castor U.S. House of Representatives from Florida | Official U.S. House HeadshotKathy Castor U.S. House of Representatives from Florida | Official U.S. House Headshot U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, who represents Florida’s 14th district in...
Global coal mine additions fall to decade low in 2024, yet oversupply risk looms from China
The Economic Times
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July 29, 2025
New coal mining capacity fell to a 10-year low in 2024, but future projects especially in major producer China still risk oversupply, said a new report from U.S. think tank Global Energy Monitor on Tuesday. New mines opened globally in 2024 can...
U.S., Mexico ink deal to fix Tijuana River sewage problem
Courthouse News
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July 25, 2025
The agreement, comprised of several different projects focused on cleaning the pollution, is expected to be a long-term fix. (CN) — The United States and Mexico on Thursday forged an agreement officials say will solve a sewage crisis in the...
The way to sustainable energy in India: Sagarkumar Soni about the potential of nuclear technologies in decreasing the carbon footprint
DNA India
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What India can take away with Canada and the U.S.: A specialist in high technologies and approaches to nuclear energy On 12 February 2025, India and France signed a strategic partnership to collaborate in the development of advanced and small...
Japanese chain of Italian eateries optimistic about Chinese market
People's Daily Online
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GUANGZHOU, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Imagine feasting on a creamy pasta or a piping-hot pizza for just 20 yuan (about 2.8 U.S. dollars), or enjoying a bottle of wine for under 60 yuan. At Saizeriya, a Japanese chain of Italian eateries, all of these...
Economist applauds bold move to de-dollarise Ghana’s economy
GhanaWeb
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July 27, 2025
Economist Dr. Evans Nunoo has welcomed the government’s decision to award all public sector contracts in Ghanaian cedis. This follows finance minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson’s announcement that government contracts will no longer be awarded in...
Two CBP officers plead guilty to allowing drugs to cross at San Diego border
Imperial Valley Press - California
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SAN DIEGO — Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges after admitting they allowed vehicles loaded with narcotics to pass through their inspection lanes at California ports of entry...
First Crypto Real-Estate Team Established By Christie’s, Handling $1B In Listings
Bitcoinist
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July 26, 2025
Christie’s International Real Estate is shaking up how the ultra‑rich buy homes. A new team of legal experts, crypto analysts and transaction specialists now handles deals where both buyer and seller want to pay in Bitcoin or Ether. It’s the first...
Navy Hopes Native Hawaiian Outreach Will Help Keep Kauaʻi Missile Base Land
Honolulu Civil Beat - Hawaii
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July 29, 2025
Comments on a draft report from the Navy and NASA are due Aug. 7. Seeking to avoid pitfalls that have stalled other military negotiations, the U.S. Navy is reaching out to Native Hawaiians and promising to assess cultural impacts in its bid to...
New Canada-U.S. bridge opening could be delayed by slow progress on border facilities
CBC/Radio-Canada
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July 26, 2025
The opening of the new bridge between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit could be delayed into 2026 due to delays completing the ports of entry on either side of the border, according to a report from the ratings agency S&P Global. The Gordie Howe...
Current ARM mortgage rates report for July 29, 2025
Fortune
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The current average rate on 5-year adjustable-rate mortgages is 7.74%, according to data from the popular real estate marketplace Zillow. If you’re considering an ARM to buy a home, whether to call your own or as an investment property, read...
Trump Again Claims U.S. Funded Ethiopia’s GERD – A Claim Ethiopians Call False
Zehabesha
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July 25, 2025
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has once again claimed that the United States funded the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), saying Ethiopia built the massive hydropower project “with American money.” His comments have sparked widespread...
Provincial deficits to narrow in coming years despite trade war: report
Lethbridge Herald
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July 29, 2025
By Canadian Press on July 29, 2025. OTTAWA — Under pressure from the U.S. trade war and a slowing economy, Canada’s provinces are all expected to run fiscal deficits this year — but a Conference Board of Canada report predicts those deficits will...
U.S. Congress Proposes Funding Cuts to Colombia over President's Alleged Drug Use
Breitbart
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July 24, 2025
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee expressed concerns on Wednesday about growing reports of drug abuse “at the highest levels” of the government of Colombia in a report presented by Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL) for the National Security,...
Copper Prices Reach Record High Ahead of U.S. Tariff Deadline, Market Braces for Disruption
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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July 25, 2025
Nyngan Australia June 20th 2012 : Shallow depth of field image of a miner inspecting ore rocks on a conveyor in NSW Australia Copper futures surged to new record levels this past Tuesday, as U.S. and global markets continued to respond to the...
US Stocks Settle Mixed Following US-EU Trade Deal: Investor Sentiment Edges Lower, But Fear Index Remains In 'Greed' Zone
Benzinga
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The CNN Money Fear and Greed index showed some decline in the overall market sentiment, while the index remained in the “Greed” zone on Monday. U.S. stocks settled mixed on Monday, with the S&P 500 recording gains as markets reacted to the U.S.-EU...
10 of the Most Dangerous Road Trips in the U.S.
Mental Floss
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July 25, 2025
Before the local government improved its infrastructure in the 1990s, Yungas Road in Bolivia was better known as Death Road. That’s a fitting name for what’s considered one of the most dangerous in the world; roughly 300 people would succumb to...
U.S., Mexico agree to speed up projects that ease sewage flows in Tijuana River
Times of San Diego
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July 25, 2025
Tijuana River Valley watershed, on both sides of the border. (Photo courtesy of Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve) The U.S. and Mexico on Thursday signed an agreement to address the harmful flow of sewage into the Tijuana River and...
A New Era for U.S. AI Policy: How America’s AI Action Plan Will Shape Industry and Government
JD Supra - California
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July 25, 2025
Summary On July 23, 2025, the federal government unveiled America’s AI Action Plan (the Plan), a sweeping policy roadmap aimed at clearing away regulatory barriers, supercharging U.S. investment in infrastructure and talent surrounding artificial...