A worker displays the radish harvest in one of the gardens of the agroecological production demonstration farm, managed by the Trinational Border Municipal Association of the Lempa River, in the district of Candelaria de la Frontera, western El Salvador. Credit: Edgardo Ayala / IPS by Edgardo Ayala (candelaria de la frontera, el salvador) Friday, March 21, 2025 Inter Press Service CANDELARIA …
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Montreal, Canada – Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has moved to dissolve Parliament and trigger a snap election on April 28. The widely anticipated decision on Sunday kicks off an election race less than two weeks after Carney took up his post, succeeding Justin Trudeau at a time of soaring tensions with the United States. “We are facing the …
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Pope Francis has appeared at his window of the Gemelli hospital in Rome and offered a blessing for the first time since being admitted on 14 February. The 88-year-old pontiff was discharged minutes later and doctors say he will need at least two months of rest at the Vatican. During the past five weeks, he presented “two very critical episodes” …
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The United States will hold separate talks with Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia to iron out details of a possible limited cease-fire in what could be a crucial step toward a full cessation of hostilities in the war. Russia and Ukraine both agreed this past week to halt strikes on energy infrastructure temporarily, but how and when to implement …
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Languages such as Python and Rust get a lot of new attention these days, but Java is still going strong after three decades. With Java’s 30th birthday two months away, Scott McNealy, former CEO of Java founding company Sun Microsystems, and Oracle officials reflected on the programming language’s staying power at the JavaOne 2025 conference this week. In a keynote …
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Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican from hospital on Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia, making a surprise stop at his favourite basilica on the way home before beginning two months of prescribed rest and recovery. The motorcade carrying the 88-year-old pope entered the Perugino gate into Vatican City, and Francis was seen in the front …
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US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he believes the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy was carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald, but asked if the gunman had help.
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The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas negotiated in mid-January seems to have been written on tissue. It frayed midway through the first of three phases, when Israel declined to negotiate for the second phase. Since then, it was only a countdown until the first hours of Tuesday morning, when the Israel Defense Forces executed a swift and punishing series of …
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The UN refugee watchdog earlier warned that the EU-backed policy on the Belarusian border would violate international law Poland is on the verge of approving a controversial bill that would entail refusing to accept most asylum claims from migrants arriving from neighboring Belarus. The policy, which has yet to be formally approved by President Andrzej Duda but has the EU’s …
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With his signature geeky glasses and TED-Talk-style headset, Sundar Pichai looked straight out of a Silicon Valley incubator. That Monday, February 10, Google’s chief executive took the stage at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris. From the Grand Palais podium, he heralded a new golden age of innovation. “Using AI techniques, we added over 110 new languages to Google …
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