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Free Domestic Flights in Japan: How to Book & Where to Go

Free Domestic Flights in Japan: How to Book & Where to Go

Flying to Japan soon? Here’s something that might surprise you. When you book an international flight into Tokyo or another major city, some airlines let you add a domestic flight within Japan for little or no extra cost. This means you can land...

The brain drain in the Caribbean

The brain drain in the Caribbean

The reality facing school leavers in the Caribbean is graphically illustrated by a commentary entitled “The Silent flight of our youth” in the Barbados Daily Nation newspaper of July 1. The writer, a secondary school leaver about to head to Canada...

Mexico's Banorte warns FX, potential dividend could weigh on full-year results

Mexico's Banorte warns FX, potential dividend could weigh on full-year results

By Natalia Siniawski MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Executives at Mexican lender Banorte on Wednesday warned that foreign-exchange volatility and a potential dividend payout could weigh on the company's performance for the remainder of the year. The...

Oleksandra Matviichuk: ‘If we want to prevent wars in the future, we must punish the states and their leaders who start these wars now’

Oleksandra Matviichuk: ‘If we want to prevent wars in the future, we must punish the states and their leaders who start these wars now’

Oleksandra Matviichuk (b. 1983) is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and civil society leader based in Kyiv. She heads the non-profit organisation Centre for Civil Liberties (Nobel Peace Prize receiver in 2022) and is a democratic reform campaigner....

HYBE Latin America Eyes Growth With Reality TV Push, Interactive Exhibits, and New Deals with Daddy Yankee and Morat

HYBE Latin America Eyes Growth With Reality TV Push, Interactive Exhibits, and New Deals with Daddy Yankee and Morat

HYBE Latin America is rapidly growing its entertainment footprint with bold moves across multiple platforms, including the launch of reality TV talent competitions and striking major management and agency deals with Colombian pop group Morat and...

Our Eagles Super Bowl book will keep you 'Flying High' as new season arrives

Our Eagles Super Bowl book will keep you 'Flying High' as new season arrives

The Philadelphia Eagles have started training camp, and the 2025 NFL season is a little more than a month away. It's time to practice singing "Fly Eagles Fly," and to make sure your Eagles jersey is still in good shape as you savor their Super...

The secret British history of South America

The secret British history of South America

In the 1920s, the story goes, weary Times sub-editors on the evening shift had a running competition to see who could write the most boring headline to make it into print the next morning. One winner, according to legend, was “Small earthquake in...

A farmer traveled the world by foot, collecting 60,000 autographs in a book

A farmer traveled the world by foot, collecting 60,000 autographs in a book

Viktor Šimunić snap-snapped the metal latches on the security case shut to keep the precious book safe. It takes two people to carry it. About a foot thick, the book is leather-bound and worn. The pages crackle, and it looks like a magical book of...

EXCLUSIVA: Autoridades Mexicanas Saben Dónde Vive Jefe de Cártel, Lo Dejan En Paz

EXCLUSIVA: Autoridades Mexicanas Saben Dónde Vive Jefe de Cártel, Lo Dejan En Paz

Las autoridades mexicanas han sabido dónde vive un temible jefe del cártel y no han hecho nada para arrestarlo. A pesar de la presión del gobierno estadounidense sobre México para enfrentar a los cárteles, este jefe ha podido vivir en una casa en...

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican Authorities Know Where Cartel Boss Lives, Leaves Him Alone

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican Authorities Know Where Cartel Boss Lives, Leaves Him Alone

Authorities in Mexico have known where a fearsome cartel boss lives and have not made any moves to arrest him. Despite the pressure from the U.S. government on Mexico to go after cartels, this cartel boss has been able to live in a home in the...

Your Modern Day Green Book: How To Craft A Travel Life Rooted In Culture, Connection, And Protection

Your Modern Day Green Book: How To Craft A Travel Life Rooted In Culture, Connection, And Protection

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guidebook published from 1936 to 1966. Founded by African American postal worker Victor Hugo Green, The Green Book was a crucial tool for resistance and survival. It allowed African American travelers to find...

How Argentina's AI ruling can help stem child sexual exploitation

How Argentina's AI ruling can help stem child sexual exploitation

What’s the context? Creating child abuse imagery with AI is now a crime in Argentina, setting a regional precedent for fighting online child abuse. Argentina's ruling criminalises AI-generated child abuse imagery AI-generated content harms child...

A Black woman is elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters for the first time in 128 years

A Black woman is elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters for the first time in 128 years

Writer Ana Maria Gonçalves became the first Black woman to be elected to a seat at the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Photo by Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil, used with permission On July 10, the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Academia Brasileira de...

“King Of Soca” Wins Again & Again — 2024 American Legacy Book Awards & Now The International Book Awards!

“King Of Soca” Wins Again & Again — 2024 American Legacy Book Awards & Now The International Book Awards!

“King Of Soca” Wins Again & Again — 2024 American Legacy Book Awards & Now The International Book Awards! The 40-year biography of Machel Montano, titled King of Soca written by his mother, Elizabeth “Lady” Montano, continues to shine, collecting...

El Molino to host summer dinner series on Milpa, Mexico's regenerative farming practice

El Molino to host summer dinner series on Milpa, Mexico's regenerative farming practice

If you find yourself often pondering the intersection of food and history, this summer dinner series at El Molino del Sureste might be right up your alley. The molino at El Molino del Sureste. Shannon Weber El Molino owners Jeff Henry and chef...

Ecuador vs Argentina, Copa America Femenina 2025 Live Streaming Online in India: How To Watch ECU-W vs ARG-W Football Match Live Telecast on TV & Score Updates in IST?

Ecuador vs Argentina, Copa America Femenina 2025 Live Streaming Online in India: How To Watch ECU-W vs ARG-W Football Match Live Telecast on TV & Score Updates in IST?

Looking to earn a qualification spot, hosts Ecuador Women's National Football Team will take on the mighty Argentina Women's National Football Team in their Group A encounter of the ongoing Copa America Femenina 2025 on July 25. The Ecuador vs...

From the classroom to the bookstore, Bay Area 4th graders publish children's book

From the classroom to the bookstore, Bay Area 4th graders publish children's book

ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- Ryan Brazil's 4th grade class has accomplished a task that many have only dreamed of. The hard-working group of students wrote, illustrated and published a children's book: "Thank You: A Story About Kindness and...

Argentina’s Javier Drolas Joins Colombia’s Marcela Mar in ‘Imperfect,’ an adaptation of Bestseller ‘Drunk Mom: A Memoir’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Argentina’s Javier Drolas Joins Colombia’s Marcela Mar in ‘Imperfect,’ an adaptation of Bestseller ‘Drunk Mom: A Memoir’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Argentine thesp Javier Drolas, best actor winner of Argentina’s Silver Condor for his role in coming-of-age drama “The Good Intentions,” has joined Colombian actor-producer-writer Marcela Mar (“Dear Gentlemen,” “Satanás”), in the upcoming...

Trump Admin Cuts Deal With Mexico To Halt Disgusting Sewage Pollution In California

Trump Admin Cuts Deal With Mexico To Halt Disgusting Sewage Pollution In California

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mexico in Mexico City on Thursday to resolve the Tijuana River sewage crisis, a decades-old danger to human health and the environment impacting Southern...

Argentina’s Javier Drolas Joins Colombia’s Marcela Mar in ‘Imperfect,’ an adaptation of Bestseller ‘Drunk Mom: A Memoir’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Argentina’s Javier Drolas Joins Colombia’s Marcela Mar in ‘Imperfect,’ an adaptation of Bestseller ‘Drunk Mom: A Memoir’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Argentine thesp Javier Drolas, best actor winner of Argentina’s Silver Condor for his role in coming-of-age drama “The Good Intentions,” has joined Colombian actor-producer-writer Marcela Mar (“Dear Gentlemen,” “Satanás”), in the upcoming...

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