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Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. WIESBADEN, Germany – Some U.S. military personnel and their families used the extra time at home during more than a year of coronavirus restrictions to hit the books. This year, 1,360 students received diplomas from the University of Maryland Global Campus Europe – about 200 more graduates than last year, an increase university officials attribute in part to students signing up for more classes during lockdowns. A pivot from in-person to live-streaming instruction also opened more courses for students across UMGC Europe’s footprint in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, officials said.
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A 10-year-old girl raised over S$250,000 for charity online. This is how she did it Chng Rui Jie started out with a desire to help hungry rabbits. With some help from her father, she has gone on to run 18 online campaigns for different charities.
She s only 10, but over the past year, she s managed to raise S$250,000 for charity through online campaigns. What s Rui Jie s secret? Watch to find out.
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/ An international letter exchange connecting different cultures and languages throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, helping ease confinement blues to residents in South Florida.
A tribute to a civil rights leader in South Florida, the future of our cities and an international letter exchange for poetry month.
On this Wednesday, April 7 episode, of Sundial:
Hastings’ Legacy
For 28 years, Representative Alcee Hastings served in Florida’s congressional delegation as a champion of civil rights. On Tuesday, the longtime South Florida Democrat died at the age of 84 a few years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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