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A Century Of Music Education At Webster Groves High School
Webster Kirkwood Times - Missouri
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The Webster Groves High School Marching Band performs at last year’s Turkey Day Game held at Moss Field at Alumni Stadium. | photo by Ursula Ruhl In 1926, the Webster Groves High School band program was started by Hans Lemcke, who fell in love...
Astrogazers school space club moves closer to CubeSat launch
Electronics Weekly
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July 7, 2025
The school – Croydon High School – successfully completed the final stage of live testing their CubeSat satellite for Mission Pegasus. The initiative, encouraging STEM participation, involves the all-girl Astrogazers club. And their prototype...
Harvard issues travel advisory for international students: 5 crucial things to know before you fly
The Times of India
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Amid growing concerns over immigration scrutiny and digital privacy, Harvard University has issued a strong advisory for its international student community. The guidance was shared during a closed-door session hosted by Harvard's International...
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France expresses concerns over disappearance of teenager during cycling trip in Iran
Firstpost
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July 7, 2025
A French teenager who was on a cycling trip in Iran has been missing since June 16, a diplomatic source told AFP on Sunday. Posts shared on Instagram identified the missing person as 18-year-old Lennart Monterlos, who allegedly also holds German...
Journey Through Time and Space: The Story of a Unique Space Furnace Developed by Turkmen Scientists
News Central Asia
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July 7, 2025
Enejan Altyeva, Head of the Department of the State Museum of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan The State Museum of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan has received an extraordinary exhibit—a unique technological installation...
‘They threw us out like garbage’: Iran rushes deportation of 4 million Afghans before deadline
The Guardian
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July 7, 2025
Women forced back to living under the Taliban’s increasingly repressive regime have spoken of their desperation as Iran accelerates the deportation of an estimated 4 million Afghans who had fled to the country. In the past month alone, more than...
Local Philanthropists to Join Thousands at Global Conference for Israel
Boulder Jewish News - Colorado
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July 7, 2025
A delegation from Colorado and other areas of the Mountain States will join over 2,500 passionate supporters of the land and people of Israel October 23–26, 2025, at The Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida, for Jewish National Fund-USA’s Global...
Kirkwood High Student Heading To Morocco To Study Arabic
Webster Kirkwood Times - Missouri
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Alec Gates Kirkwood High School student Alec Gates is a recipient of a National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarship, which will allow him to study Arabic this summer in Morocco. He was one of 440 students selected from thousands of...
John Swinney challenged to fix Scots NHS and schools with £5.8bn cash boost from Rachel Reeves
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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July 7, 2025
John Swinney has been challenged to improve public services after it was revealed Holyrood will receive an extra £5.8 billion in funding as a result of the recent Westminster Spending Review. Rachel Reeves announced last month the UK Government...
Terrifying never-seen-before footage shows father 'attempt honor killing' outside an American school
Daily Mail
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July 7, 2025
Timberline High could have been any American school on the afternoon of October 18 last year, minutes after the final bell rang. Teens in hoodies, jeans, and backpacks crowd along the road at the bus stop at 2.13pm, waiting to finally go home for...
World News | BRICS Group Condemns Increase of Tariffs in Summit Overshadowed by Middle East Tensions
Latestly
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July 6, 2025
Rio De Janeiro, Jul 6 (AP) The BRICS bloc of developing nations on Sunday condemned the increase of tariffs and attacks on Iran, but refrained from naming US President Donald Trump. The group's declaration, which also took aim at Israel's military...
IYSSE wins 3 seats in Berlin’s Humboldt University Student Parliament
World Socialist Web Site
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July 7, 2025
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) has won three seats in the elections to the Student Parliament (StuPa) at Berlin’s Humboldt University (HU), meaning all its candidates will take up mandates. The IYSSE was the only...
UK restores Syria ties with first ministerial visit in 14 years
Daily Express
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July 7, 2025
Britain has formally restored diplomatic relations with Syria for the first time in 14 years. It comes as Foreign Secretary David Lammy visits Damascus this weekend, eight months after dictator Bashar al-Assad was overthrown. Lammy is the first UK...
73.2 pct of Arab Israelis back including Arab parties in Israeli gov't: survey
Xinhua News Agency
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JERUSALEM, July 6 (Xinhua) -- A Tel Aviv University survey revealed Sunday that 73.2 percent of Arab Israeli citizens support including an Arab party in Israel's next government, showing strong backing for Jewish-Arab political cooperation. The...
UK resets relations with Syria, pledges support
China Daily Global
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A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) welcoming with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy in the Syrian capital Damascus on July 5, 2025. [Photo/Agencies]...
'Israel' suffered $3bln in losses from Iran’s attack on refinery
Al Mayadeen
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July 6, 2025
Besides the financial toll, Iran’s strike on the Haifa refinery disrupted fuel supply in Israeli-occupied cities and intensified public unrest amid ongoing war fallout. Initial estimates by insurance firms and economic experts suggest that losses...
Saudi Arabia: New report denounces alarming escalation in executions including of foreign nationals convicted of drug-related offences
Amnesty International
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July 6, 2025
A new report published by Amnesty International today draws attention to a startling surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in recent years, particularly for drug-related offences, and highlights the significant impact of these on foreign nationals....
Israel to issue 54K call-up notices to ultra-Orthodox students
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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July 6, 2025
REUTERS/RONEN ZVULUN / 2024 Security forces spray people as Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest an Israeli Supreme Court ruling that requires the state to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students to the military, in the Mea Shearim...
How Israeli propaganda mills recycled fabricated claims of intercepting Iranian missiles
Press TV
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July 7, 2025
By Ivan Kesic For the third time, the Israeli regime has declared an implausible success rate in intercepting Iranian ballistic missiles, this time touting a fanciful figure of 86 percent, a claim parroted with little scrutiny by much of the...
Perception trumps reality: Did the US really destroy Iran's nuclear programme?
Irish Examiner
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July 6, 2025
Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has contradicted US president Donald Trump’s contention that the Iranian nuclear programme was destroyed by the US air attack on Iran on the night of June...