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World Cup 2014World Cup Preparation: Is Brazil ready?
June 6, 2014RIO DE JANEIRO, June 4 (Xinhua/Sun) -- After seven years of planning and billions of dollars spent on infrastructure, Brazil is finally dismantling ubiquitous scaffolds and applying finishing touches to ...
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World Cup 2014Brazil ready for World Cup: Blatter
June 6, 2014SAO PAULO, June 6 (Xinhua/Sun) -- FIFA president Sepp Blatter has insisted Brazil is ready to host the World Cup, less than a week before football's showpiece event kicks off ...
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WorldVenezuela to pursue coup plotters judicially in the U.S.
June 4, 2014CARACAS, Jun. 3 (Xinhua/Sun) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he will start judicial actions in the United States against alleged conspirators in a plot to kill him.
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FootballSpain squad flies to Washington to continue World Cup preparations
June 4, 2014MADRID, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The 23 players of the Spanish football team held their last training session on home soil on Monday before flying to the United States to ...
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WorldEgypt's Sisi officially declared president
June 3, 2014CAIRO, June 3 (Xinhua/Sun) -- Egypt's presidential election commission on Tuesday officially announced ex-military chief Abdel- Fattah al-Sisi to be the new president of the most populous Arab state, after ...
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LocalTwice a winner
June 3, 2014Steline Joseph, a tour guide from Tarreau, is a lucky woman. She won $15,400 from the Dominica National Lottery (DNL) Big 4 Game last week. And that's her second win ...
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LocalPaul goes to DBS
June 3, 2014On June 2, 2014 the state-owned Dominica Broadcasting Corporation (DBS radio) will be managed by a Dominica Labour Party (DLP) spokesperson and party insider Mervin Paul.
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WorldFruits, vegetables may lower stroke risk: study
June 3, 2014WASHINGTON, May 8 (Xinhua/ Sun) -- Eating more fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of stroke worldwide, according to new research published Thursday in the American Heart Association's journal ...
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LocalCIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank awards scholarship to DSC student.
June 3, 2014A seventeen year-old student of the Dominica State College (DSC) has received a $4000 scholarship from the CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank.
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ElectionsElectoral Commission ready for election
June 3, 2014Talk about an early general election has saturated the airwaves in Dominica. The two main political parties, the governing Dominica Labour Party (DLP) and the opposition United Workers Party (UWP), ...
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LocalMarie Davis Pierre: Dominica's first female Speaker dies
June 3, 2014Marie Davis Pierre has the distinction of being the first female Speaker in Dominica a position which she held for just over seven years. When ask what motivated her to ...
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LocalFixing Farming
June 3, 2014There are people to whom agriculture feels like a religion, something they were born into, something sacred, something inherited, their very reason for being. It runs in their veins, it's ...
