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Grant Fisher gearing up for U.S. track and field championships
Park Record - Utah
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July 15, 2025
Grant Fisher’s inaugural Grand Slam Track season didn’t go the way the 28 year old expected. Well, the fledgling startup league didn’t find the success many had hoped. Fisher won the first two long distance slams before succumbing to a hamstring...
Live Aid was of its time - but it was a day we won't forget
Telegraph & Argus
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Live Aid was underway - and we’d always remember where we were when the opening riff to Rockin’ All Over the World started up. I was serving up sausage baps at the local bakery where I had a Saturday job. Live Aid was on the radio, it was history...
Achievements answer Live Aid critics
Otago Daily Times
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July 11, 2025
When Bob Geldof recruited Bono for a charity concert, he thrust global inequality into the spotlight. Forty years on, the pair discuss the legacy of Live Aid with Angus Macqueen. "He has a rage in him that has made him, I think, the greatest...
Bono reveals his 1 big regret from 1985 Live Aid performance: 'I can't look back'
New York Post
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July 13, 2025
The mullet’s not for everyone. In the new documentary “Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took on the World” documentary, Bono admitted that he regrets his hair choice during U2’s performance at Live Aid in 1985. “I can’t look back at this moment with...
Tinubu Sends Shettima To London To Visit Ailing Buhari Amid Health Concerns –Report
Sahara Reporters
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President Bola Tinubu recently directed Vice President Kashim Shettima to fly from Addis Ababa to London to check on former President Muhammadu Buhari, who is reportedly receiving treatment in a London hospital. Shettima had been in Ethiopia on...
Bola Tinubu Sends Kashim Shettima To London To Visit Ailing Muhammadu Buhari In Hospital
Alexa.ng
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President Bola Tinubu earlier this week detailed Vice President Kashim Shettima to fly to London from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to check on ailing former Nigerian leader, Muhammadu Buhari, following reports that he was undergoing treatment in an...
How Shettima Visited Ailing Buhari in London on Tinubu’s Directive
This Day
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July 11, 2025
•VP’s office fails to confirm his England itinerary Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja President Bola Tinubu earlier this week detailed Vice President Kashim Shettima to fly to London from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to check on ailing former Nigerian leader,...
Lyles scorches to victory
Daily Express Malaysia
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July 13, 2025
Lyles scorches to victory Published on: Sunday, July 13, 2025 Published on: Sun, Jul 13, 2025 By: AFP Text Size: Dark Mode: Off Lyles (pic) delivered a near-faultless run to clock 19.88 seconds to edge Olympic champ Letsile Tebogo into second with...
Africa-Asia Dialogue On Agrifood Systems Transformation To Open In Viet Nam
Scoop
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Monday, 14 July 2025, 1:15 pm Press Release: UNFAO Hanoi - Agriculture ministers and top-level policymakers from 15 African countries will meet with their counterparts from 3 Asian countries here on 15 July 2025 to discuss making agrifood...
Rising fuel prices spark outrage as Kenyans face economic strain
TV47
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July 15, 2025
Kenya’s Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority’s ((EPRA)) move to increase fuel prices starting July 15 through August 14, 2025 has been met with sharp criticism from a section of Kenyans who are already grappling with rising cost of living....
A.M. ATL: A Carter legend speaks
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia
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Morning, y’all! True story: I once kept a gym membership two years after I stopped going because their cancellation policy was confusing. No, I didn’t forget. I worried about it almost daily. Sadly, a “click-to-cancel” rule that would make it...
Live Aid at 40: Remembering the global concert that rocked JFK Stadium
Metro Philadelphia - Pennsylvania
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July 13, 2025
Municipal Stadium in South Philadelphia is pictured on Oct. 22, 1927. Dallin Aerial Survey Collection / Wikimedia Commons It has been 40 years since the world came together for Live Aid—a global concert that redefined the power of music. Broadcast...
Teen's journey from fleeing home and life in care to meeting with the King
Wales Online
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July 10, 2025
Adey, 17, now living in Cardiff, has faced challenges most of us could never imagine. Born in Eritrea, East Africa, she was forced to flee her home at a young age. Initially settling in Ethiopia, she was once again forced to leave. Her journey to...
Live Aid at 40: Artists and organizers reflect on the groundbreaking event
NBC 10 Philadelphia - Pennsylvania
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July 13, 2025
Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts aimed to do a lot of good — helping to raise over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspiring worldwide awareness for a cause it might otherwise have ignored. Simulcast from...
Tinubu Sends Shettima To London To Visit Ailing Buhari In Hospital
Naija News
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July 11, 2025
Former media aide to Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, had earlier dismissed claims that the former Nigerian leader was critically ill and in the Intensive Care Unit. He explained that Buhari was indeed ill but was on his way to recovery. He insisted that the...
Live Aid: ‘We switched it off when Status Quo came on’
Gulf Today
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July 12, 2025
Forty years ago this weekend, two concurrent concerts were held in London and Philadelphia in aid of relieving a brutal famine that had taken hold of Ethiopia. The legend of Live Aid has grown exponentially ever since. But each retelling draws...
WOMEX 2025 Update: Full Showcase and Club Summit Lineups Announced for Tampere
World Music Central
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July 11, 2025
Piranha Arts, the organizers of world music expo WOMEX, have announced the full list of Jury-selected Showcase artists and Club Summit performers for the 31st edition of the event, set to take place this October in Tampere. The current program...
40 years after Live Aid: Judas Priest, Rick Springfield, John Oates and Bob Geldof reflect
MLive - Michigan
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July 11, 2025
By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts aimed to do a lot of good — helping to raise over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspiring worldwide awareness for a cause it might...
HPR Reiterates Support for Democratic Institutions’ Key Role in Nation Building
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, July 5, 2025 (ENA)— Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives, Tagesse Chafo, reaffirmed support for independent democratic institutions, emphasizing their vital role in advancing the nation-state building efforts. Speaking at...
Prime Minister Abiy Confers with Brazilian President Ahead of 17th BRICS Summit
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, July, 5, 2025 (ENA)—Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva engaged in high-level talks focusing on strengthening bilateral ties and addressing multilateral agendas ahead of the 17th BRICS Summit in...