North America
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The U.S. Border Patrol at the Nogales and Sasabe stations, two of eight in the Tucson Sector, are the busiest on the US-Mexico border for illegal immigration, drug smuggling and border deaths. The sector includes the remote Sasabe Port of Entry.
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by Ben Tsui
The 7th Sled Island Music & Arts Festival in Calgary is now officially underway! A sneak preview of what's to come was held across the city on Tuesday night. There were music, film screenings, a poster art show and some punk rock bingo games.
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by Rudy Torres
Blackberry & AT&T present the finale of the Elevate Young Black Voices competition at the Muse Lifestyle Group's Playhouse Nightclub in Hollywood. The event included performances from contest winners and a reunion performance of CeeLo and Goodie Mob.
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In a festive atmosphere Brazilians, residents and young tourists in Mexico held a march on the sidewalk of Paseo de la Reforma to express their solidarity by the recent protests in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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by Mark Spowart
Veteran rocker Tom Petty and the HeartBreakers played to a sold out crowd at the Budweiser Gardens. The date is their only Canadian stop on their 2013 concert tour. Petty interacted with the crowd waiving often, acknowledging the support.
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Over the pass year Professional Artist, Metalworker Molly Strader has been skillfully “hammering” away, winning awards such as the “Award of Excellence” at the Great Gulf coast Art Festival, Florida.
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by Nancy Siesel
At the end of the legislative session in Albany, 2,000 opponents of fracking from Brooklyn to Buffalo arrived on buses in New York's Capitol to demand a ban on fracking. This was the largest anti-fracking rally in the country.
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Mars Bazrafshan is currently on a hunger strike that he started on June 3rd against the "bullying tactics" he claims he as well as others experience from their employer, Canada Post. He was joined throughout the day by other postal workers.
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Morris the Cat (El Candigato Morris) emerges as a social media protest against the official political candidates to become Mayor of the city of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
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by Mark Spowart
The 3rd annual Nuit Blanche or White Night festival features interactive artistic stations where individuals can be involved or witness others as they participate. Run in the cities downtown, alleys are turned into art studios and performance sites.
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by Bimal Nepal
A group of people rallied in Harvard Square, Cambridge, showing their support for Turkey's peaceful demonstration and condemned the Turkish government and police for heavy-handedness in dispersing protesters from Gezi Park using tear gas.
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Wixarika or wixaricas, constitute a majority in Tepic and most of Nayarit. Known in Spanish as Huichol, they inhabit west-central Mexico in the Sierra Madre Occidental, mainly in the states of Jalisco, Nayarit and parts of Durango and Zacatecas.
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Brad Pitt joined a host of stars as he attended the 'World War Z' New York premiere in Times Square. Pitt stars in the movie as the character named Gerry Lane, a United Nations employee involved in a race against time to stop a Zombie pandemic.
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by Mark Spowart
The Victorian era neighborhood of Woodfield Street held its third annual street fair, featuring music, games, horse and wagon tours where riders received a history of the community and the homes in it.
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Chicago Scots hosted the 27th annual Highland Games, which included such sports as Braemer Stone, Clachneart Stone, Weight throws, Hammer, Caber Tossing and more.































































