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December 29, 2025

Foods with healthy-sounding buzzwords could be hiding added sugar in plain sight

Many consumers feel pride in avoiding the glazed pastries in the supermarket and instead opting for “all natural” granola that comes packed with extra protein. Same goes for low-fat yoghurt “made with…
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro points to his electronic ankle monitor that the Supreme Court ordered him to wear, at Congress in Brasilia.
December 29, 2025

Judge puts coup plot convicts under house arrest after former police commander flees

SÃO PAULO (AP): A Brazilian judge on Saturday issued house arrest orders for 10 people who have been convicted and sentenced for participating in a plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in…
Activists participate in a demonstration outside where negotiations were taking place at the COP30 UN Climate Summit, on November 21, in Belém, Brazil.
December 29, 2025

Matheus Pereira | COP30: Who has access to the information needed to confront the climate crisis?

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), held in the city of Belém, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, may go down in history for something that goes far beyond technical…
People attend funeral prayers for General Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, coffin at left, in Misrata, Libya, who was killed with others in a plane crash.
December 29, 2025

Hundreds mourn military chief killed in Turkey plane crash

MISRATA (AP): Hundreds of people on Sunday mourned western Libya’s military chief and four others who were killed in a plane crash in Turkey. The coffins of General Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad and…
A man tries out the temporary Eisbach wave in the English Garden in Munich, Germany.
December 29, 2025

Debate over surfing gets gnarly after city removes wave-creating device

FRANKFURT (AP): A debate over how to bring back surfing in Germany’s landmark English Garden escalated on Sunday after city workers removed a beam surreptitiously deployed over Christmas to restore a…
CARICOM Heads of Government pose for a group photo at the 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community.
December 29, 2025

‘Clarity, cohesion, strategic discipline’

CMC: Outgoing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) chairman, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, has reiterated the need for the region to remain a ‘Zone of Peace’ grounded in respect for international law, the…
Dr Hyacinth Simpson
December 29, 2025 by Neil Armstrong

Massey College Fellowship to allow professor to complete major projects

Dr Hyacinth Simpson, a Jamaican-Canadian associate professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), has been named a 2025-2026 Massey College Visiting…
Shoppers swipe their MetroCards as they enter the subway turnstiles, in November 2024, in New York.
December 29, 2025

New York subway ends MetroCard era, switches fully to tap-and-go fares

NEW YORK (AP): When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems.…
Letters
December 29, 2025

Concerned about unqualified solar power professionals

THE EDITOR, Madam: In the wake of Hurricane Melissa and the ongoing challenges with our electricity supply, more people are turning to solar power. Unfortunately, the rapid growth of the solar…