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Clarksons Research: Demolition to Increase Going Forward, as Fleet Supply Growth Remains Below Overall Trend
Hellenic Shipping News
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July 2, 2025
Clarksons Research have today released their mid-year review of shipping markets. With shipping often at the “frontline” of uncertain geo-political dynamics, understanding underlying market trends has often been “tricky”. Our cross-market day rate...
Who Makes Black Hawk Helicopters For The Military & Where Are They Built?
SlashGear
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June 23, 2025
Few aircraft command the same level of recognition and symbolism as the Black Hawk helicopter. In the U.S., it stands as a cornerstone of modern military operations, with a reputation forged from decades of active service and countless missions....
New World Screwworm getting closer to U.S.
KOLD News 13 - Arizona
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July 12, 2025
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - A flesh-eating parasite is getting closer to our southern border, and ports will now remain closed to Mexican cattle and horses. The New World Screwworm has been detected less than 400 miles south of the Texas-Mexico...
US plans to begin breeding billions of sterile flies to drop from airplanes
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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An adult New World screwworm fly. (Denise Bonilla/U.S. Department of Agriculture via AP) TOPEKA, Kan. — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a...
What Trump’s Latest Tariff Threats Mean for Fashion
The Business of Fashion
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July 9, 2025
The Trump administration’s game of tariff red-light, green-light isn’t over yet. On Monday, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order once again pushing back duties scheduled to go into effect on Wednesday until Aug. 1. The move gives...
U.S.’ FMC Opens Investigations into Foreign Flagging Practices and Global Maritime Chokepoints
Hellenic Shipping News
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July 2, 2025
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has recently launched two investigations that could have implications for international shipping and U.S. trade. These actions reflect the FMC’s stated concern over regulatory practices by foreign...
Swarm and awe: US to use flies vs a pest
Inquirer
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July 3, 2025
In this Jan. 2024 photo provided by The Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Cattle Screwworms (COPEG), a worker drops New World screwworm fly larvae into a tray at a facility that breeds sterile flies in Pacora,...
South of the Border: Efforts ramp up to stop screwworm short of the U.S.
Kilgore News Herald - Texas
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It was the early 1960s, but I vividly remember being at a summer camp just west of Kerrville when something drifted down from a low-flying airplane. Seeing a plane in those days was odd. Seeing one that low was even more unusual. But the kicker...
UK’s Double Dutch mixers prepares for Latin America launch
Just Drinks
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July 1, 2025
UK-based mixers producer Double Dutch is pushing forward with expansion with a launch into markets in Latin America. Speaking to Just Drinks at the BCB London trade show yesterday (30 June), co-founder Joyce de Haas said the company’s products...
Top Ten Costa Rican Locations to Die For
Variety
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July 2, 2025
Renowned for its natural beauty and pioneering ecological conservation, Costa Rica is ramping up efforts to become a strong contender in global film production. A compact nation with a growing cash rebate scheme, skilled bilingual crews, close...
Droughts push millions to starvation, says UN-backed report
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 3, 2025
New report, yesterday, raised concerns that droughts, fuelled by climate change and relentless pressure on land and water, have escalated, triggering cascading shocks to food, energy, ecosystems and human survival across the world. The report,...
Tanker U-turns on the rise in Strait of Hormuz as analysts eye trade shifts
Riviera
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June 23, 2025
Shipping movements in the Middle East are reflecting the region’s escalating conflict, a fluid situation that saw the US drop a barrage of bombs on three of Iran’s nuclear facilites over the weekend and Iran vow retaliation. One clear sign of the...
The U.S. plans to begin breeding billions of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it will work.
Korea JoungAng Daily
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July 2, 2025
Published: 02 Jul. 2025, 16:12 In this January 2024 photo provided by The Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Cattle Screwworms (COPEG), a worker drops New World screwworm fly larvae into a tray at a facility that...
World News | US Recloses Southern Border After Flesh-eating Parasite Seen Further North in Mexico
Latestly
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July 10, 2025
Washington, Jul 10 (AP) The US has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in Mexico than previously reported. Mexico's president was critical Thursday, suggesting that the US...
Flood-battered Texas braces for another blow: a fast-moving, flesh-eating parasite from Mexico
Fortune
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The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in Mexico than previously reported. Mexico’s president was critical Thursday, suggesting that the U.S. is exaggerating the...
‘Forex woes driving down car imports’
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Andrea Perez-Sobers Senior Reporter andrea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt The continuous foreign exchange crisis is creating a slowdown in the foreign used and new car industry. It is also forcing some dealers to downsize the...
Vulgarity of Money
Dissident Voice
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July 10, 2025
Several times, the question arose of whether Menachem Begin saw any comparison between the struggle of the Palestinians and the Jews’ War of Independence. Once, Mike Wallace, the well-known American interviewer asked him directly, “Mr. Prime...
US has reclosed its southern border to livestock imports after a flesh-eating parasite is seen further north in Mexico
12 News Now - Texas
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American officials worry that if the fly reaches Texas, its flesh-eating maggots could cause large economic losses, something that happened decades ago. WASHINGTON — The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying a...
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Where is the cast of Jurassic Park now? See the stars of the original film more than 30 years later By Huntley Woods and Kevin Jacobsen
Entertainment Weekly
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Hold onto your butts: It's now been more than 30 years since we were first welcomed to Jurassic Park by the eccentric industrialist John Hammond (Richard Attenborough). Released in the summer of 1993, Jurassic Park centers on a trio of scientific...
Covenant Names Cummings Assistant Director Of Athletics For Compliance And Operations
The Chattanoogan - Tennessee
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July 12, 2025
Covenant Director of Athletics, John Hirte, has announced Cordaro Cummings as Assistant Director of Athletics for Compliance and Operations. The appointment marks a significant addition to the athletic department's leadership team as it seeks to...