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Mining the Northwest: A stumbling start for Greenstone mine
Equinox downgrades 2025 gold target, looks to get material moving at northwestern Ontario pit A slower than expected ramp-up in production at the Greenstone mine has caused Equinox Gold to slash its annual production target for its new flagship...

Crowley Announces First-Ever Shipping Route Between US Northeast and Central America
Crowley, an international leader in logistics, marine and energy solutions, has announced a significant expansion of ocean shipping services with its first-ever route between the US Northeast and Central America. Utilizing Crowley's new,...

ICE Agents Arrest Dozens of Illegal Aliens Working at Louisiana Racetrack, Pennsylvania Construction Site
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is carrying out worksite enforcement operations from Louisiana to Pennsylvania — nabbing convicted criminals in the raids. On June 17, ICE agents raided the Delta Downs Racetrack in Calcasieu Parish,...

Mission trip to Nicaragua becomes artform for GCU students
Angelica Marmolejo and Victoria Farrell (back row) and Nicaraguan students display an art project after a lesson about Jesus washing His disciples' feet. (Photo by Angelica Marmolejo) Grand Canyon University pre-med major Angelica Marmolejo...

NoCiRbo9 Suspends Music-Recording Operations in Nicaragua
Press Release HAVANA TIMES – NoCiRbo9, an underground metal music band from the Caribbean, confirms it is suspending all music-recording operations in Nicaragua and will update with new locations for available music recording studios as soon as...

First Indictments From Tallahassee Construction Site Arrests Show Multiple Removals, Previous Charges
Six people arrested during a Tallahassee, Fla., construction site enforcement action in late May have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly reentering the U.S. illegally. While more than 100 were arrested at the site, U.S. Attorney...
Mako Mining Announces Full Capital Recovery of Moss Mine Acquisition Cost; Restart of Gold Mining Activities Planned for Early July; Company Cash Balance Increases to US$27.4 million
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 23, 2025 / Mako Mining Corp. (TSX-V:MKO)(OTCQX:MAKOF) ("Mako" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has fully recovered the US$6.4 million acquisition cost for the 100%-owned Moss Mine in Arizona...

Nicaragua’s “Co-Presidents” Withdraw the Country from Acnur
Personnel from Acnur, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, visit a family of displaced Nicaraguan farmers in Costa Rica who were forced to flee the violent government repression that followed widespread protests of 2018. Photo:...

Nicaragua starts work on 70 MW solar plant, largest to date
China Communications Construction Co. has begun building the 70 MW Enesolar-3 solar plant in Nicaragua, which will supply power to state water utility Enacal and cover about 40% of its electricity needs. The PV project is the largest in the...

Ortega Expels UN Refugee Agency Over Report on Nicaraguans
Nicaraguans participating in a march held in Costa Rica, the country harboring the largest number of Nicaraguan refugees. Photo from archives Far from recognizing its responsibility in this humanitarian crisis, the dictatorship announced that...
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ICE details country of origin of 17 construction workers arrested at Five 10 Flats in Bethlehem [Updated]
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement on Friday detailed the country of origin of the 17 workers arrested at the Five 10 Flats in Bethlehem last week, but provided few other details. The agency in a news release said that the 17 workers were...

17 undocumented workers arrested by ICE at construction site in Lehigh Valley
Over a dozen undocumented people were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while they were working at an apartment complex in the Lehigh Valley earlier this month, according to officials. This all unfolded when officials with the U.S....

Thousands of undocumented migrants work as construction workers in Yucatán
2 Thousands of undocumented Central and South American migrants work as construction workers in Yucatán under extremely vulnerable conditions, in a context where the construction sector registered a decrease of 17,477 formal workers from 2024 to...

Mother Cabrini's sisters carry on missionary's zeal to 'heal the wounds of humanity'
CHICAGO (OSV News) -- On the 175th anniversary of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini's birth July 15, the sisters of the order she founded continue on with her tireless work of service to those in need, especially immigrants. The Missionary Sisters of the...

Russia and Nicaragua sign plan to combat customs violations
ST. PETERSBURG, June 19. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Customs Service and Nicaragua signed a plan to combat customs violations for 2025-2027, the press service of the department reported. The document was signed at the St. Petersburg International...

Why Washington Targets Iran and Venezuela: Empire, Energy, and Ideology
Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have also been targeted for regime change by Washington. The two commonalities are not unrelated. By Roger D. Harris Of course, the world’s...

‘The King’s Speech’ Exec Producer Deepak Sikka Boards U.K.-Costa Rica Co-Production Starring ‘The Liberator’s’ Jose Palma (EXCLUSIVE)
The U.K.’s Deepak Sikka, who executive produced the multi-Oscar-winning “The King’s Speech” and produced Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed,” has boarded “Black Gold” (working title), the first fiction co-production between the U.K. and Costa Rica....

Over a dozen — including 6 from Tallahassee construction raid — indicted in Florida for reentering US illegally
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Sixteen “previously deported aliens,” seven of whom were located in the Big Bend area, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly reentering the U.S. illegally, according to the Northern District of Florida...
Equinox Gold and Calibre Mining Complete Business Combination
Breadcrumb Trail Links Newsfile Article content Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – June 17, 2025) – Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX) (NYSE American: EQX) (“Equinox Gold”) and Calibre Mining Corp. (TSX: CXB) (OTCQX: CXBMF) (“Calibre”) are...

The US has a plan to breed millions of flies and drop them from planes. Here’s why
CNN — Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a swarm could be the livestock industry’s best defense against a flesh-eating threat poised to invade the southwestern...