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Production Ends At Iconic Australian State Brewery | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
ADELAIDE, Australia — The final kegs are set to come off the production line at Adelaide’s historic West End Brewery, ending more than 160 years of making beer on the site. The last kegs will be filled on June 17 after brewing company Lion announced plans to close the facility in
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Source: The Florida Star
Space Aged: Fine Wine Taken Into Orbit Tastes Older, Say Experts
A dozen bottles of Chateau Petrus 2000 that spent 14 months on the International Space Station developed a distinct “gunpowder” aroma, compared to the same wine on Earth. It apparently aged faster in zero gravity, experts say. The $3,000-a-bottle French red wine from the Bordeaux region, which
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Source: The Florida Star
Thousands Of Jobs On The Line In Australian City Whyalla | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
WHYALLA, Australia — Thousands of jobs hang in the balance as South Australia’s Whyalla Steelworks’ billionaire owner has been taken to court. Citibank has launched legal action on behalf of Credit Suisse in an attempt to wind up two of Sanjeev Gupta’s operations — OneSteel Manufacturing and
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Source: The Florida Star
VIDEO: Stunning Time-Lapse Footage Of Milky Way Over Ancient Ruins
A photographer and drone pilot in Turkey used a Go Pro Hero 9 to produce a time-lapse video of the Milky Way over ruins in the 2,300-year-old former city of Blaundus in what is now Anatolia. One of the aims of Isa Turan in capturing these images was to draw attention to the impact of light
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Source: The Florida Star
VIDEO: And Just Who Are You Parroting? 
Consider it a form of self-love. A parrot reacts enthusiastically while watching a video of another parrot. The parrot’s explosion of emotions was filmed in Townsville, Australia, and posted on TikTok on April 30. The TikTok user posted a 3-year-old blue parrot named Frank responding to an Indian
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Source: The Florida Star
Corrine Wins On Appeal! – Free Press of Jacksonville
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta in a 7-to-4 decision last Thursday, granted former outspoken Democrat Corrine Brown a new trial in a fraud case. This case, which involved overzealous prosecutors, a biased judge, and unethical FBI agents, ruined the decades-long career of
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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly
Audit Slams Australian Federal Biosecurity System | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
CANBERRA, Australia — More than 38,000 air travelers entered Australia over a nine-month period with high-risk biosecurity material going undetected. The auditor-general on June 7 issued a scathing report card on the federal agriculture department’s handling of the biosecurity system. The report
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Source: The Florida Star
Netflix Movie’s Skate Park Set Now Training Ground For Indian Village Kids
NEW DELHI — After assisting filmmakers Christopher Nolan, Patty Jenkins, and Vishal Bhardwaj and making three short films, Los Angeles-based Manjari Makijany landed in India to build her debut feature film “Skater Girl”. Skateboarding entered the Olympics only this year and is still not a common
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Source: The Florida Star
Maxine Waters Threatens To Sue Fox News Over Flight Report | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, threatened legal action today against Fox News for a story that claimed Waters and other members of Congress were abusing a program created after 9/11 to protect the flying public by assigning air marshals to certain domestic flights. According to the Fox News
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Source: The Florida Star
Powerhouse Museum In Australia To Become Fashion, Design Hub
SYDNEY — Less than a year after it reversed a decision to move the Powerhouse Museum from Sydney’s Central Business District, New South Wales’s southeastern Australian state government has pledged to transform the site into a design and fashion hub. New South Wales Arts Minister Don Harwin on June
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Source: The Florida Star
VIDEO: Leader Of The Pack: Amazing Wildlife Worker Who Raises A Whole Family Of Cheetahs | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Lisa Kytösaho, a Swedish conservationist, helps raise cheetahs at a South African rescue center and prepares them for their return to the wild — without fearing for her own safety among the big cats. Kytösaho, who has lived in South Africa for over 10 years, is director of the Western Cape Cheetah
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Source: The Florida Star
Aubrey Plaza protagonizará la nueva serie animada de FXX | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
El canal de televisión FXX ha encargado la nueva serie de comedia animada “Little Demon”, protagonizada por Aubrey Plaza, quien también es productora ejecutiva junto con la compañía de Danny DeVito, Jersey Films 42nd Avenue. La serie de media hora fue creada y escrita por Darcy Fowler (“Nightmare
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Source: The Florida Star
Australian Prime Minister Prepares For G7 Leader Talks | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
CANBERRA, Australia — Energy, security, climate, and the global economy will be on the agenda when Prime Minister Scott Morrison attends the G7-plus conference in the United Kingdom next week. The UK has invited Australia, India, South Korea, and South Africa as guest countries to this
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Source: The Florida Star
<div>US Broadens Investment Ban, Moves To Fund R&D In Tech Race With China</div>
Just as President Joe Biden hasn’t abandoned all of his predecessor’s policies on oil and gas, recent actions show that he is also continuing former President Donald Trump’s skeptical stance when it comes to China. After extending some of Trump’s investment restrictions on Chinese companies, Biden
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Ineligible Australian State Residents Still Getting Vaccines | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
SYDNEY — They’re young, impatient, ineligible — and now vaccinated. South-eastern Australian state of New South Wales’s under-40s is getting the Pfizer Covid-19 jab despite not meeting the state’s vaccination eligibility criteria. Several people have managed to book a vaccine appointment using
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Source: The Florida Star
VIDEO: Barn Free: Zoo Releases A Pair Of Owls Into The Wild | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Shortly after they hatched at the Zoo Aquarium Madrid, two barn owlets were released into the wild on June 5, marking World Environment Day. The baby barn owls, the most widely distributed species of owl in the world, are part of a conservation project in cooperation with the Brinzal Nocturnal
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Source: The Florida Star
México es un paraíso para las tarántulas | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
México ocupa el primer lugar internacional en diversidad de tarántulas endémicas. Aunque hace apenas 8 años, Brasil encabezaba la lista, hoy las posiciones han cambiado. El 93 por ciento de las especies de tarántulas son endémicas de México, razón por la cual el país ocupa tan honroso lugar. Estos
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School Fees Pain As Uganda Goes Into 6-Week Covid-19 Lockdown
KAMPALA, Uganda — When Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni ordered the closure of schools and prohibition of non-essential travel between districts on June 6 to halt the recent spike in Covid-19 cases, James Tusubira was upset. “I am concerned about what will happen next term when my children
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Source: The Florida Star
El futuro energético de México es incierto  | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
MEXICO CITY — El restaurante mexicano Nueva Central aún no se recuperaba de las pérdidas que le provocó recibir 70 por ciento menos clientes, una condición para operar en la pandemia, cuando sufrió un duro revés en sus costos y ventas. El lunes 15 de febrero, se quedó sin luz y agua, y dos días
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Jessica Alba y America Ferrera encabezan #LatinasRepresent | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Las actrices Jessica Alba y America Ferrera encabezarán la edición especial de #LatinasRepresent Lifestyle, un evento virtual presentado por Hispanicize Media Group, que se celebrará el 21 de abril. Descrito como una “reunión virtual de latinas influyentes, celebridades, líderes comunitarias
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Source: The Florida Star
Lethal Weapons: Gun Runner Sold High Powered Pistols On The Black Market, Court Hears | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
BRISBANE, Australia — A man from Gold Coast in the Australian state of Queensland has denied masterminding an interstate gun-running operation to amass and sell an arsenal of almost 100 powerful firearms — most of which have never been found. Wayne John Yanko, 59, of Tamborine, pleaded not guilty
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Source: The Florida Star
VIDEO: Earning His Stripes: Male Tiger Flown In For Breeding Session | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
A Siberian tiger from Portugal is expected to become the new mating partner of a tigress in the Tiergarten Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna. “Pepe is 2 years old and comes from the Lisbon Zoo,” said zoo director Stephan Hering-Hagenbecke. “He is the new partner for our tigress Ina, who was born in our zoo
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Source: The Florida Star
Australia's Queensland Government To Join Aged Care Vaccine Drive | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
BRISBANE, Australia — The Queensland government will join the coronavirus vaccine drive in private aged care amid concerns about the speed of the federal government’s rollout. The federal Department of Health has administered 72,772 vaccine doses in private aged care facilities as of June
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Source: The Florida Star
Capital Authority Ticks Australian War Memorial Work | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
CANBERRA, Australia — Approval has been given for the first phase of the AU$500 million ($387 million) redevelopments of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The National Capital Authority has given the nod for early works including the demolition of Anzac Hall. The National Capital Authority
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Source: The Florida Star
Indian Hotel Chain Oyo Gets Reprieve Against Insolvency Proceedings | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
PUNE, India — SoftBank-backed Oyo Rooms, which claims to be the world’s second-largest hotel chain, has managed to save its subsidiary Oyo Hotels and Homes Pvt Ltd from insolvency proceedings, for now. Rakesh Yadav, the owner of a 21-room hotel in India’s northern city of Gurugram, approached the
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Source: The Florida Star
Diseñadores gráficos llevan la marca en sus manos, pero son mal pagados
Pese a su importante rol dentro del campo laboral, los diseñadores gráficos a veces ven su profesión devaluada. “Es irónico, porque nosotros somos los encargados de comunicar de manera visual los sentimientos, ideologías, perspectivas y ofrecimientos de un producto, servicio o empresa, haciendo que
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Art Stopper: Painting Cut To Pieces By Its Creator Who Hated It Sells For $180k
A painting that was almost destroyed by the artist has been sold for a record $180,000 at an auction in Austria, well beyond an initial estimate of $42,000. The work by Ukrainian-French painter Marie Bashkirtseff (1860-1884), which she once slashed with a knife, was sold at the Dorotheum auction
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The Gentleman Who Transformed Australia's Brisbane | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
BRISBANE, Australia — Sir Llew Edwards, who oversaw Australia’s Brisbane’s transformative World Expo 88, will be fondly remembered as one of “nature’s gentleman”, revered for his humanity and sincerity. A Queensland Liberal leader during the state’s controversial Bjelke-Petersen era, Llew, who has
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Source: The Florida Star
El documental de inmigración 'Águilas' gana el concurso de cortometrajes de LALIFF | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
El documental estadounidense “Águilas” ganó el premio Fotokem al mejor cortometraje de acción viva en el Festival Internacional de Cine Latino de Los Ángeles (LALIFF). La película sigue a las Águilas del Desierto, un grupo de voluntarios que busca inmigrantes desaparecidos en la sección del
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Cómo la escritora y productora Elaine Del Valle vendió su primera serie | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
La escritora, actriz y creadora Elaine Del Valle asciende rápidamente, como si estuviera en la cresta de una ola. Recientemente sumó a su proyecto “The System” a Andrea Navedo (“Jane la virgen”) y a Arika Lisanne Mittman (productora ejecutiva de “Paradise Lost” y “Timeless”) como su estrella y su
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