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How One Man and His ‘Biblioburro’ Spreads Literacy in Rural Colombia
Atlas Obscura
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July 5, 2025
Manolo Morales: If you want to know what living in the countryside is like, just ask Luis Soriano. He lives in a small rural town in Colombia called La Gloria. Luis Soriano (translated by Manolo): La Gloria taught me things a city kid would never...
WHO launches global drive to increase health taxes and fight chronic disease
Medical News
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July 2, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) today has launched a major new initiative urging countries to raise real prices on tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks by at least 50% by 2035 through health taxes in a move designed to curb chronic diseases and...
Three Killed in New Massacre in Rural Magdalena, Colombia
teleSUR
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July 5, 2025
Two men and a woman were found dead with signs of torture and rifle wounds in Palmor de la Sierra. Indepaz reports this is Colombia’s 36th massacre so far in 2025. Indepaz announced that three bodies had been found on May 31 in Palmor de la...
Medical Bulletin 03/Jul/2025
Medical Dialogues
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July 3, 2025
Here are the top medical news for the day: Loneliness Affects 1 in 6 Globally, WHO Warns of Rising Health and Social Crisis The World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Connection has released its global report revealing that 1 in 6...
EPL: I’ll never forget – Luis Diaz on what Diogo Jota did to him
Daily Post
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July 8, 2025
Liverpool forward, Luis Diaz has revealed how late team-mate, Diogo Jota helped him settle well at Anfield. Diaz said he would never forget the nice gesture he received from the late Portuguese. Speaking to WinSportsTV, the Colombia international...
Making Nature a Healing Place: Interview With Colombia’s Enilda Jiménez
The Good Men Project - California
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July 5, 2025
By Manuel Fonseca For 22 years, Enilda Jiménez and her siblings were forced off their land in Colombia after their father was assassinated by armed men in a region that has seen a devastating string of killings, kidnappings and land dispossession....
New Development Bank expands to 11 members, raises $16.1bln in 2024
Zawya
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The New Development Bank (NDB) has approved Colombia and Uzbekistan as new members, its president Dilma Rousseff said, as the lender focuses on expanding its membership and increasing financing in local currencies for sustainable development in...
The Sociable’s 50 Under 50 Enterprise Executives
The Sociable
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July 8, 2025
Rising from a decade of economic ambiguity, technological disruption, and the lingering specter of a global pandemic, a new generation of executive leaders is rewriting the rulebook for success in an uncertain world. Guiding global businesses are...
Yoga in Spanish Draws Hundreds as Colombian Teacher Builds Cultural Bridges
Indo American News
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July 4, 2025
Olga Prieto yoga session: Colombian yoga teacher Olga Prieto led 125 participants through an inclusive community practice at Active Coffee Shop By Juhi Varma KATY, TX — Among the 30 International Day of Yoga events held across Houston this year,...
Wayuu: The Indigenous peoples feeling the brunt of climate change in Colombia
Latin America Reports
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July 4, 2025
La Guajira, Colombia – Recurrent droughts and extreme weather conditions will continue to endanger Colombia’s northern La Guajira department. Here, existing atmospheric patterns and global warming collide in increased climate variability and...
Top Latin American court upholds right to “healthy climate”, urges fossil fuel control
Climate Home News
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July 4, 2025
Latin America’s top court of human rights has decided for the first time that people have the right to a “healthy climate” without “dangerous” human interference, and has urged states to regulate fossil fuel extraction and exploration, in a...
Hospital Internacional de Colombia joins Mayo Clinic Care network
Hospital Management
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July 1, 2025
Hospital Internacional de Colombia (HIC) in Bucaramanga has become the first hospital in Colombia and South America to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network. Established in 2011, the network includes approximately 45 member organisations in the US,...
Hunting for connections can help your health
Times News - Pennsylvania
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A million of anything is hard to imagine, but do your best to picture a million penguins gathered near a research station in Antarctica. These migratory creatures have come to mate, yet there’s no need for you to imagine that. Just what else...
Colombian police hunt former hairdresser linked to Miguel Uribe shooting
Latin America Reports
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July 1, 2025
Bogotá, Colombia — Investigators are combing Colombia for Elder José Arteaga Hernández, alias ‘El Costeño’, a former hair salon owner and an alleged career criminal linked to drug trafficking and hit squads. He’s wanted in connection with the June...
Hosting research
The Express Tribune
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July 8, 2025
Within the last decade in general, and the last couple of years in particular, there is a nascent movement within the research community - one that questions where research conferences are held, and who gets to participate. This is particularly...
Landmark decision on the human right to a healthy climate delivered by the highest court in the Americas
Greenpeace International
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July 3, 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights just delivered a landmark decision on the obligations of States in the face of the climate emergency.[1] The Court established that governments must take “urgent and effective...
Top Medical Cannabis Strains for Panama’s Tropical Climate
Newsroom Panama
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July 3, 2025
Panama is advancing its medical cannabis framework under Law 242-2021, pioneering Central America’s most progressive herbal remedy program. As cultivation licenses finalize and a Technical Commission under the Ministry of Health moves forward,...
Fresenius Medical Care Collaborates With Coordination Of National Institutes Of Health And Specialty Hospital To Extend Access To Innovative Dialysis Therapy In Mexico
MENAFN
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July 3, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) High-Volume Hemodiafiltration is used for the first time in seven out of 10 CCINSHAE centers in Mexico In Mexico, 240 CCINSHAE patients are now being treated; more than 410 regular patients also treated Fresenius Medical Care...
Will Governments Firewall Public Health From Tobacco Industry's Lies And Deceptive Tactics?
Scoop
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Friday, 4 July 2025, 7:51 am Article: CNS A new WHO report launched in June 2025, warrants stronger measures to save lives from deadly tobacco and nicotine products and hold industry liable An import declaration adopted last week calls upon the...
UAMS Welcomes 3 New Sports Medicine Physicians to Northwest Arkansas
UAMS
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July 3, 2025
View Larger Image July 3, 2025 | FAYETTEVILLE — Primary care sports medicine physicians Kyle Arthur, M.D., Jake Martin, M.D., and Jacob Smith, M.D., MPH, recently joined UAMS Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Northwest Arkansas, bringing...