December 2, 2023
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents of Mexico’s Caribbean reef island of Banco Chinchorro near Belize have hunted the meat and salmon-pink shells of queen conch for generations. As populations have shrunk in recent decades, Mexico has enforced limits and bans on catching the shellfish. The species has continued to decline despite these measures, which included
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Consumers are scouring the internet for online deals as they begin to coff the five-day post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza with Cyber Monday. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of our everyday lives and much of the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday — a term coined back in 2005 by the National Retail Federation —
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Updated: 21/11/2023 – 15:21 One million visitors: that’s what the organisers of the Schönbrunn Christmas Market are expecting as the annual event returns in its 30th year for six weeks of festivities. One million visitors: that’s what the organisers of the Schönbrunn Christmas Market are expecting as the annual event returns in its 30th year
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People and organisations turning 75 in 2023 joined the King at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire to celebrate his birthday. Representatives from the NHS and the Windrush Generation were among guests who enjoyed afternoon tea at the King’s private residence near Tetbury. The Repair Shop host Jay Blades, an ambassador for the King’s Foundation, attended as
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The Independence Day holiday celebrates the restoration of Poland’s national sovereignty in 1918, at the end of World War I and after 123 years of rule by Prussia, Austria and Russia. ADVERTISEMENT Tens of thousands of people walked through Warsaw on Saturday in a march organized by nationalist groups as Poland celebrated its Independence Day
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THE International Maritime Organization (IMO) celebrates 50 years since the adoption of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (Marpol), the primary global treaty for the prevention of pollution of the marine environment by ships from intentional, operational, or accidental causes. The landmark milestone was celebrated last Nov. 2, 2023, and will
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Moscow residents, including well-known dissidents, take part in the ‘Returning of the Names’ ceremony – an annual commemoration of Soviet-era repressions. ADVERTISEMENT Russians commemorated the victims of Stalinist terror on Sunday, more than 20 months into Moscow’s Ukraine offensive that has been accompanied at home by a major crackdown on dissent. The Kremlin has doubled
READ MOREBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak marked a year in office on Wednesday with little to celebrate as wars on the international stage make a grim backdrop to his domestic challenges. On top of that, another year seems to be haunting his Conservative Party: 1996. Then — as now — the party had been in power
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POISED to play a bigger role in producing qualified and well-trained future seafarers for the global fleet, DMMA College of Southern Philippines celebrated its 30th anniversary with the launch of the DMMA Foundation, which aims to create a pool of deserving scholars to strengthen its thrust on academic excellence and innovative education. Davao City councilor
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At the home of Yakov and Liora Argamani, Oct. 12 has long been a day for celebrating their daughter’s birthday. This year, though, it is a day of sorrow for the Argamanis, after their daughter, Noa, now 26, was seen on video being kidnapped Saturday from a music festival by Hamas assailants. Her parents held
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