Month: July 2019
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“The piece that soccer needed”: women referees arrive to Paraguay’s first division
The inclusion of women in world soccer has been growing in recent years and both players and referees have more…
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Sweden in search of South American “white gold”
Several governments and car manufacturers, in the expectation of bigger demand for electric cars in the next years, are seeking to become…
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“Sanctions are reasons for war”, says Iranian chancellor to the United States
The Iranian Foreign Minister described the sanctions applied by the United States government against some countries as "reasons for war"
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro says government may cut worker protections to boost job creation
"What I'm trying to offer the worker is this: fewer rights and jobs, or all their rights and unemployment," said…
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Panama becomes first Central American nation to ban plastic bags
The isthmus nation of roughly 4 million people joined more than 60 other countries that have totally or partially banned…
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Will life imitate art? Steppe queen movie makes Kazakhs wonder
The idea of a female ruler could be a hard sell in a country where many still believe a woman's…
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Grey fingers: Ageing Singapore uses gardening to fight loneliness
It has hit on the idea of getting more elderly people out of the house and into gardens to reduce…
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Tasmania’s Aboriginal groups divided over new place naming policy
Tasmania's original dual-naming policy, first adopted in 2012, gives Aboriginal names to geographical features that already have European names, so…
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Britain’s May chairs emergency session on seized tanker
The meeting of security ministers and officials discussed how to secure shipping in Iran, which is vital to the world's…
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Iran says it arrested 17 CIA spies, some sentenced to death
Iran has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country's nuclear and…
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