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Cuba's 'Peter Pans' Remember Childhood Exodus
A glass wall separated nine-year-old Mercedes Dash from her parents at Havana’s international airport. Clutching her new doll as she waved goodbye, Dash boarded a plane bound for Miami. For all she knew, she’d be back in Cuba in a few days. That was January 25, 1962. Mercedes Dash still hasn’t gone home.
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The US and Cuba criticise each other's human rights record during historic visit
Both the US and Cuba have made clear rapprochement will be slow and incremental, during an historic US visit to the island.
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TIL autor Joel Garreau divided North America into 9 economically and culturally distinct regions
The Nine Nations of North America is a book written in 1981 by Joel Garreau. In it, Garreau suggests that North America can be divided into nine nations, which have distinctive economic and cultural features. He also argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant, and that his "nations" provide a more accurate way of understanding the true nature of North American society.
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Infograph: The new Suez Canal in numbers - Economy - Business - Ahram Online
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Special Report: State Department watered down human trafficking report
In the weeks leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world’s worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking
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WikiLeaks reveals CBC and Canada Post may be sold under TPP agreement
A secret letter leaked by WikiLeaks on Wednesday reveals that the CBC and Canada Post could be sold under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
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What to Expect From El Niño: North America
We’re now well into the ramp-up phase of what promises to be one of the top three El Niño events of the last 60-plus years.
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Group Petitions to Save a Prehistoric Fish From Modern Construction
The Atlantic sturgeon is among the oldest of fish species, dating from the time of the dinosaurs. It is the longest-living fish in the Hudson (up to 60 years), the largest (up to 14 feet) and the strangest-looking, with bony plates that make it look armored.
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U.S., Cuba Restore Full Diplomatic Relations
More than a half century of Cold War and lingering enmity came to an abrupt but quiet end on Monday as the United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations.
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Tofino and Ucluelet: Canadian West Coast Wonders
Tofino and Ucluelet are side-by-side towns on the edge of Vancouver Island, British Columbia housing old-growth rainforests, beaches and dramatic coastlines
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This snail-eating fish was named after the Obamas
Meet Teleogramma obamaorum -- and other species named after the president.
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Civil Forfeiture Now Requires A Criminal Conviction In Montana And New Mexico
Just in time for the Fourth of July, states are declaring their independence from civil forfeiture.
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Joint Canada-U.S. effort aims to restore bison to Great Plains
A sprawling network is attempting to restore bison in as many places in the U.S. and Canada as possible.
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Court Rules Living ‘Off The Grid’ Is Illegal
For many it's a life long dream
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The town where dinosaurs and Jesus mingle
Jesus and the dinosaurs are living happily alongside one another in a town in Canada - but can the peace last, asks Tom Holland.
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Indiana Mom Faces Criminal Charge for Letting Her Kids Play in a Creek
An Indiana woman says she was given a citation and a court date after she let her kids play in a creek just a few miles from her house. Blogger and photographer Linda McGurk described a pleasant-sounding Memorial Day vacation with her family, where she, her husband, and two daughters visited
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Canada’s tax on tampons to stop July 1
Apparently pressured by their female MPs, the federal Conservatives go with an NDP proposal that followed decades of campaigns and an online petition.
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US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror
The United States has removed Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terror, allowing the country to conduct banking in the United States, among other activities.
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Bernie Sanders Would Tax The Income Of The Wealthiest Americans At 90 Percent
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) doesn't think a 90 percent tax rate on the richest is too high in order to combat income inequality.
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Detroit jazz great Marcus Belgrave dies at 78
Jazz musicians and fans on both sides of the border are mourning the passing of a patriarch of the Detroit scene: Marcus Belgrave. The diminutive...
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