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Vt.-based Gardener’s Supply files for bankruptcy
WCAX - Vermont
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June 21, 2025
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A Vermont-based garden supply company has filed for bankruptcy. WCAX obtained the Chapter 11 bankruptcy paperwork for Gardener’s Supply filed Friday in Delaware. Sources told WCAX about the bankruptcy filing earlier this...
Union of Arab Banks names Hassan Abdalla ‘Governor of Year 2025’
Daily News Egypt
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June 21, 2025
Hassan Abdalla, Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), has been named “Governor of the Year 2025” by the Union of Arab Banks. The award was presented during a high-profile ceremony in Paris, on the sidelines of the Arab International Banking...
From regional war to global economic crisis: The consequence of igniting the forever war in the Middle East
The Business Standard
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June 21, 2025
The world has been holding its breath in recent days, anxiously watching to see if the United States will launch a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The uncertainty has only grown with US President Donald Trump's shifting stance, leaving people...
Syria Says Assad Cousin Involved In Drug Trade Arrested In Border Ambush
MENAFN
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June 21, 2025
(MENAFN- Jordan Times) -pp-DAMASCUS - Syrian authorities arrested Wassim Al Assad, a cousin of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, the interior ministry said Saturday, in one of the most high-profile arrests since the former president's ouster. Bashar...
US defense and private sector on high alert for Iran-backed attacks in increasing Israel-Iran cyberwarfare
Cryptopolitan
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June 23, 2025
The cyber battlefield between Iran and Israel is now just as active as the missile barrages seen across the region. According to reporting from Politico, both countries have been launching targeted cyberattacks in parallel with military action,...
Israel-Iran trade fresh blows as B-2 bombers head from Missouri over Pacific
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri
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A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flies overhead as part of a flyover from nearby Whiteman Air Force base Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Kansas City, Mo. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel Israel and Iran launched new strikes in a second week of hostilities, with the...
Israel-Iran Trade Fresh Blows as US Bombers Fly Over Pacific
Yahoo Finance
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(Bloomberg) -- Israel and Iran launched new strikes in a second week of hostilities, with the Isfahan nuclear facility targeted again, as Donald Trump deepened uncertainty about his readiness to join the conflict. Most Read from Bloomberg The US...
Major U.S. Cities Heighten Security After Trump’s Iran Strikes
[your]NEWS
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June 22, 2025
New York, Los Angeles, Washington, and federal agencies issue alerts and step up patrols following U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites By yourNEWS Media Newsroom Several major U.S. cities are on heightened security alert following President...
Tarsha Family Brings New Life to Historic Lebanon Pfeffer Farmhouse
Herald Publications - Illinois
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June 21, 2025
The Tarsha Homestead has had many names in the past, but was originally known as the “Lou-Dix Farm” after Louis “Huck” and Dixie Pfeffer, who built the farm house in 1920. Since being built it has changed hands a number of times. Pictured from...
46 Years of Economic War: Iran’s Assault on America
American Thinker
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June 21, 2025
Since 1979, Iran’s regime hasn’t just waged ideological or military campaigns — it has conducted a relentless, calculated war on America’s economic well-being. From oil shocks that gutted wallets to terror sponsorship that drained defense budgets,...
Lebanon girls lacrosse coach stepping down after 30 seasons
Valley News - New Hampshire
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Sara Ecker stepped down from coaching the Lebanon High girls lacrosse team once before, when she volunteered in Ghana for six weeks in the spring of 2001. Upon her return, however, she peeked at practices from behind a tree and she returned to her...
Putin says BRICS now controls 40% of the world economy
Cryptopolitan
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June 21, 2025
Trade between BRICS countries has now passed $1 trillion, and Russian President Vladimir Putin says that number keeps climbing. Speaking on Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin told the crowd at the plenary session that...
Beirut Port overhaul: Lebanon adopts advanced scanning tech to fight smuggling
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
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Report by Lara El Hachem, English adaptation by Yasmine Jaroudi Daily losses from smuggling and tax evasion at legal crossings and ports in Lebanon reach $1.5 million. Authorities expect these losses to drop sharply with the upcoming installation...
Bruce Springsteen: ‘I’m not the best company inside my head’
The Times
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Two weeks before the opening concert of his European tour in Manchester, Bruce Springsteen is at his ranch in Colts Neck, New Jersey. It’s a spacious, wealthy rural area neighbouring Freehold, the working-class town where he grew up. Springsteen...
Maersk suspends shipping operations at Haifa port as Israel’s war with Iran sparks global trade fears
TDPel Media
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June 21, 2025
The tension between Israel and Iran has gone far beyond the usual war of words—now, it’s a full-blown military and diplomatic emergency. In just over a week, the region has seen missile strikes, nuclear facility damage, assassinations, and waves...
Ghana government seeks financial support from diplomatic community to fight illegal mining
Ghana Business News
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June 21, 2025
Yusif Sulemana – Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources. The government has appealed to members of the Diplomatic Corps for financial and technical assistance to fight the menace of illegal mining in the country. “Our forests are depleted,...
Economic isolation started Iran’s self-inflicted military wounds
The Gazette - Colorado
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Israel's preemptive strikes against arch-enemy Iran, and a tacit green light by the United States to continue, have capped years of aggressive international economic sanctions. Combined with diplomacy, with recent diplomatic efforts to head off...
Slain Quds force commander financed, trained, armed Hamas
Ynet
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June 21, 2025
Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday that the IDF killed a commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds force in a strike on an apartment in Iran's Qom. Katz said Saeed Izdi had financed and armed Hamas ahead of the Oct....
Budget to consolidate economic gains, NA told
Business Recorder
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June 21, 2025
ISLAMABAD: Amid criticism from opposition lawmakers, Minister of State for Finance Bilal Azhar Kayani on Friday said that the budget is aimed at further consolidating economic gains, providing relief to the people, and continuing the reform...
Syria Makes First International Bank Transfers Since Fall of Assad
Breitbart
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June 20, 2025
Syrian central bank governor Abdelkader Husriyeh said on Thursday the new government reached a milestone by performing its first international bank transfer using the SWIFT system. Syria was locked out of the global transaction system in 2011,...