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George Anthony Miller
The Gazette - Iowa
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George Anthony Miller Cedar Rapids George Anthony Miller, 94, of Cedar Rapids, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Friday, July 18, 2025 at the Woodlands at Meth-Wick Community. Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, August 9, 2025, St. Pius...
Labor MP's new push for a sugar tax that will affect every Australian gains momentum
Daily Mail
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July 16, 2025
By ZAK WHEELER FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 11:44 EDT, 16 July 2025 | Updated: 12:03 EDT, 16 July 2025 The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is seeking to tax Australia out of its dueling obesity and diabetes epidemics. A sugar tax could...
Some Australian dolphins use sponges to hunt fish, a practice harder than it looks
Canada's National Observer
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July 16, 2025
Some dolphins in Australia have a special technique to flush fish from the seafloor. They hunt with a sponge on their beak, like a clown nose. Using the sponge to protect from sharp rocks, the dolphins swim with their beaks covered, shoveling...
Explore historical fiction with Frank Castle
Bundaberg Now
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July 16, 2025
Frank Castle will host an Author Talk at the Bundaberg Library later this month. Step back in time with local writer Frank Castle as he hosts an author talk to discuss his book The Cursed Spirit: The Wandering Soul. This free event will take place...
Grand jury decision in Victoria Lee police shooting met with dismay
Daily Record - New Jersey
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On July 28, 2024, Lee was fatally shot by Fort Lee Police Officer Tony Pickens, Jr. at The Pinnacle apartment complex on Main Street after police responded to a 911 call. Fort Lee resident Victoria Lee was 24 years old at the time of her death....
Josh Rock and Mike de Decker make World Series debut in Australia and New Zealand as field confirmed for double header
Yardbarker
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July 16, 2025
Mike De Decker and Josh Rock will make their first appearances on the World Series of Darts stage Down Under in August. The Belgian has been invited by the PDC to participate in both the Australian Darts Masters and the New Zealand Darts Masters....
‘Dear Australia’ – Jason Howard pens open letter to the sector he loves
The PIE news
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July 16, 2025
Dear Australian colleagues, In May, I went to my son’s graduation. As each graduate approached the stage, they doffed their cap, collected their degree and beamed for the formal picture, radiating pride. There were the occasional whoops and...
Snowbirds set to shoot across skies over Victoria's Inner Harbour
Peninsula News Review
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July 16, 2025
Canadian Forces aerial team set to fly by on July 22 at 6 p.m. The undeniable roar of nine jet engines soaring through the skies will fill the air in Greater Victoria on Tuesday (July 22). “The Snowbirds will be performing our non-aerobatic...
Paul Antrobus obituary
Sail-World
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July 21, 2025
by John Roberson 21 Jul 12:01 PDT Sailors around the world will be sad to hear that British offshore sailing legend Paul Antrobus has crossed the bar. One of the "greats" of the IOR era of offshore racing, Paul had a distinguished career both...
The Best Foreign-Born Race Winners in NASCAR History
USA Insider
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July 16, 2025
While Kyle Larson said Shane van Gisbergen must improve on a few things to be “dominant” in the future, the three-time Supercars champion torching the field in Sonoma last weekend for his second straight Cup Series victory and third this season...
How long would it take to build a $1 million ASX share portfolio investing $500 per month?
The Motley Fool Australia
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July 21, 2025
Image source: Getty Images I'd imagine most Aussies would love to have a $1 million ASX share portfolio. However, $1 million doesn't just appear out of nowhere unless someone inherits it or wins the lottery. To reach a $1 million ASX share...
Work on first new Victoria hotel in 20 years officially gets underway
North Shore News
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The new eight-storey hotel with 167 rooms arrives amid increasing demand from leisure and business travellers. Officials broke ground Wednesday on the first new hotel building in nearly two decades in Victoria. The 167 rooms in the eight-storey...
Indigenes lose climate battle
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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July 21, 2025
CAIRNS: The Australian government has won a landmark climate case against residents of islands under siege from the impacts of climate change. In 2021, community elders Pabai Pabai and Paul Kabai launched legal action against the then-Liberal...
Cruisers Don't Want To Rewrite History: A Fifth Attempt Is Being Made To Bring Back Titanic II
The Travel
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July 16, 2025
Still today, the Titanic continues to generate interest. Studies are suggesting new reasons as to why the Titanic sank, while pieces of the Titanic continue to be recovered. One was recently retrieved at a U.S. hotel, at a luxury resort in Las...
Adam Scott hopes Australian Open is ‘starting its glory years again’ as organisers predict enormous crowds
Australian Golf Digest
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July 16, 2025
[Photo: Getty images] The combination of reigning Masters champion Rory McIlroy and a decades-long return to Royal Melbourne are indicating the 2025 Australian Open will be the biggest on record, which Adam Scott hopes returns “the glory years” of...
Firm nurtures next generation of tech women
The Fiji Times
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July 21, 2025
Fifteen women have successfully completed the second cohort of the KPMG Fiji’s ‘It’s Her Future’ program — a two-day training initiative designed to build and offer ways to introduce females to careers in technology where women are...
Cutzamala System recovers to 56% capacity after historic rainfall in central Mexico
Mexico News Daily
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July 16, 2025
The Cutzamala System, one of the largest and most important water infrastructures in Mexico, as it supplies water to the Mexico City metropolitan area and México state, has seen a remarkable recovery this month. According to the latest official...
World Associated Press From dying reefs to flooded graves, Vanuatu is leading a global climate case
Yahoo News
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PORT VILA, Vanuatu (AP) — When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns branched into yellow antlers, plate corals...
Greater Victoria high school seeks final $1M to fund new sports turf
CHEK
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July 16, 2025
Spectrum Community School says it’s close to meeting its new sports turf fundraising goals to replace the existing field, which the district says hasn’t seen a season home game or tournament played in 15 years. One of seven Greater Victoria...
Commentary: Tough to make a living writing books, but Singapore needs storytellers
Channel News Asia
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July 21, 2025
Singapore writers face some unique challenges. First, the market is small, so there are only so many people to sell to. Authors don’t have many publishers to choose from, which limits their bargaining power during contract negotiation. Add to that...