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Indigenous Voice 2.0: Inside Albanese’s new guilt trip on the Australian people
Sky News Australia
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August 15, 2025
Anyone who has worked in a newsroom understands the hierarchy of suffering that determines the running order of a bulletin. A tragedy on our doorstep matters more than a larger tragedy on the other side of the world. So we shouldn’t be surprised...
Supreme Court Mandates Warrants for Real-Time Cellphone Location Data
WebProNews
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August 15, 2025
In a surprising turn for digital rights advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling that reaffirms constitutional protections against unwarranted government surveillance in the realm of modern technology. The decision, stemming from a...
Southern Voices: Grief, Resilience, and Daily Life in Jnoub
Inter Press Service
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August 15, 2025
Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, COP29 Blog, Disaster Management, Editors' Choice, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Middle East & North Africa, TerraViva United Nations Armed Conflicts Morning after an Israeli attack in...
Abiola assumes office as CLTC’s first female DG in 70 years
The Sun Nigeria
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August 15, 2025
History was made this week at the Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre (CLTC) as Honourable Rinsola Abiola officially assumed office as the first woman to head the organisation since its establishment more than 70 years ago. Abiola,...
Prof Karim fights lawlessness at hospital gates
IOL
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WORLD-renowned scientist Prof Salim Abdool Karim has slammed police inaction at Durban’s Addington Hospital, calling it “lawlessness” after witnessing vigilantes illegally block foreign nationals from accessing medical care, in full view of...
Police Arrest Fake Eye Doctor Using Olive Oil Concoctions As Cure
Leadership
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August 15, 2025
Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested a fake medical doctor, claiming to be a specialist in the treatment of eye problems. Akwa Ibom Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Timfon John, who disclosed this to...
Not a Time to Blame, But to Build: NITDA DG Urges Civil Society-Government Unity for Inclusive National Growth
TechEconomy
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August 1, 2025
Advertisements In a hall filled with voices dedicated to Nigeria’s future, one message rang clear: progress is a shared responsibility. At the inaugural Civil Society Summit on Civil Democracy and National Development, held at the Rotunda...
Ernest Onuoha: Poverty, civil war challenged me to be better
The Sun Nigeria
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August 9, 2025
Hon. Ernest Onuoha is the author of the new autobiography, Sweet and Sour from Homeland, a deeply moving memoir chronicling his life as a rural Nigerian boy born into poverty, orphaned young, and shaped by the ravages of the Biafran War, who...
St. Albans Creamery dinged for spills; Results in $210,500 in civil penalties
Saint Albans Messenger - Vermont
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ST. ALBANS — After identifying multiple spills of raw milk and cream into local waterways, Vermont’s Attorney General has reached a settlement with the St. Albans Creamery. Attorney General Charity Clark announced the move last week after the...
By-Elections: INEC Distributes Sensitive Materials For Edo Polls
Naija News
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August 15, 2025
Naija News reports that the distribution exercise took place at the Benin branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), where political party representatives and members of civil society organisations were present to observe the proceedings....
West African Leaders Gather To Refine Humanitarian Coordination Between Military And Civil Actors
News Ghana
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August 8, 2025
The Directorate of Humanitarian and Social Affairs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has commenced a four-day regional workshop to review the draft ECOWAS. Civil-Military Coordination Strategy for Humanitarian Action. The...
Bye-Election: Don’t vote for ‘terrorist’ party, Oyo SDP urges electorates
The Sun Nigeria
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August 15, 2025
From Taiwo Oluwadare, Ibadan The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Oyo State has called on voters to reject candidates from political parties recently labeled as “terrorist organisations” by a Canadian court in tomorrow, Saturday’s bye-election in...
Rift Valley civil society groups back Raila's inter-generational dialogue
Star
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Director of CHRD Kipkorir Ngetich (c) with Suba Churchill speaking in Eldoret. /MATHEWS NDANYI Civil society groups in Rift Valley have backed calls for national dialogue to resolve issues affecting youth and other challenges in the country. The...
Global South Governments and CSOs Demand to Secure a Strong Plastic Treaty at INC-5.2
Pressenza
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August 15, 2025
Geneva, Switzerland– Demonstrating strong unity, Global South Member States and Civil Society called for ambitious, legally binding global measures to curb plastic production, in a media briefing on the closing day of the second part of the fifth...
What to know about past meetings with Putin
Daily Kos
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August 15, 2025
Bilateral meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterparts were a regular occurrence early in his 25-year tenure. But as tensions mounted between Moscow and the West following the illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean...
Akpabio, Shehu Sani charge civil society on values
Eagle Online
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August 1, 2025
The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and Senator Shehu Sani have urged civil society organisations (CSOs) to remain steadfast in defending democratic values and promoting national development. Senator Akpabio made the call at the...
NY AG Letitia James Subpoenaed by DOJ In Trump Civil Rights Violation Probe
Newsweek
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August 8, 2025
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued multiple subpoenas to New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of an investigation into whether she violated President Donald Trump's civil rights, the Associated Press reported. The subpoenas...
ASEP civil service test attracts fewer applicants
Kathimerini
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SOCIETY Participation in Greece’s second nationwide ASEP civil service exam dropped sharply, with only 43,080 candidates compared to over 108,000 in March 2023. Limited testing centers in Athens and Thessaloniki likely contributed to the decline,...
Global Plastics Treaty, INC-5.2 ends without agreement and amid controversy
Materia Rinnovabile | Renewable Matter
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This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After a night of closed-door meetings and a day later than scheduled, the final plenary session of the extended fifth session of the Intergovernmental...
DOJ opens investigation into New York attorney general who won civil case against Trump
CNN
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August 8, 2025
The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office as part of a criminal investigation into President Donald Trump’s longtime adversary, according to multiple sources, in the latest example of the Trump...