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First woman referee in a men’s World Cup game on Thursday

COLOMBO (News 1st) – History will be made when Costa Rica face Germany on 1 December 2022 at the Al Bayt Stadium when Stephanie Frappart becomes the first woman in the history of the World Cup to referee a finals match in the men's tournament.However, it will not be the first time the 38-year-old French referee has written her name into football history. Frappart was also the first woman to referee a Ligue 1 and UEFA Champions League game.Frappart will be joined by assistant referees Neuza Back of Brazil and Mexico’s Karen Díaz Medina for the crucial Group E game.Before the World Cup, Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, said of the three female referees at the World Cup: "They were not selected because they are women, but as FIFA referees.

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Costa Rica pull off late win over Japan

Colombo (News 1st) – In yet another shock win at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Costa Rica scored their first goal of the tournament to beat Japan 1-0. Japan beat the mighty Germans 2-1 just a few nights ago.Keysher Fuller made Costa Rica's first shot on target count! Despite his side carrying no goal threat all game, Fuller beat the keeper from the edge of the box to keep their dream of reaching the last 16 alive.Costa Rica suffered a 7-0 humbling to Spain on Wednesday (Nov.

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Netflix to begin monetizing account sharing in early 2023

Consumers sharing their Netflix account with family or friends outside their household will have to pay extra starting early next year."We’ve landed on a thoughtful approach to monetize account sharing and we’ll begin rolling this out more broadly starting in early 2023,"the world's largest streaming service wrote in its quarterly shareholder letter on Tuesday. "After listening to consumer feedback, we are going to offer the ability for borrowers to transfer their Netflix profile into their own account, and for sharers to manage their devices more easily and to create sub-accounts ('extra member'), if they want to pay for family or friends."Netflix expects the profile transfer feature will be "especially popular" in the U.S. and 11 other countries where its new $6.99 per month ad-supported plan will be available starting Nov.

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Missing UCLA Basketball Star Dead At 22 After Taking Mental Health Break

Former University of California Los Angeles basketball player Jalen Hill has passed away after taking a mental health break — and going missing in Costa Rica.

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Pro surfer Kalani David dies at 24 after having seizure while surfing in Costa Rica

FILE - Kalani David of Hawaii advances to the quarterfinals of the Pipe Invitational, the trials of the 2019 Billabong Pipe Masters after winning Heat 3 of Round 1 at Pipeline on December 9, 2019, in Oahu, United States. (Photo by Ed Sloane/WSL via G Kalani David, the former world junior surfing champion, died over the weekend on a beach in Costa Rica after suffering a seizure while practicing in the waters off Costa Rica, authorities and friends confirmed.

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Trudeau and family head to Costa Rica for 2-week vacation

Justin Trudeau is heading to Costa Rica for a two-week vacation with his family.The Prime Minister’s Office says the family is returning to the same place where they stayed over the Christmas holiday in 2019 and that they are paying for their own accommodations.The prime minister must fly on a Royal Canadian Air Force plane for security reasons — even for personal travel — and the family’s flights on the last trip to and from Costa Rica cost the government about $57,000, without thousands more spent on flight crews’ stay in San Jose.That said, there have been exceptions to those flight rules. Earlier this summer, for example, Trudeau flew on an RCAF aircraft to Munich, Germany to participate in the G7 summit but he was flown to the summit site in the Bavarian Alps on a German police helicopter.

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Kaitlin Armstrong, Texas love triangle murder suspect, back in Austin to face charges

Officials say while Armstrong was on the run, she cut her hair shoulder-length and dyed it dark brown, as well as wore a bandage on her nose claiming she had a surfboarding accident. AUSTIN, Texas - The Austin, Texas, woman accused of killing cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson is back in Travis County after being transported from a jail in Harris County.Around 2:45 p.m.

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Texas murder suspect Armstrong had sister’s passport in Costa Rica, ‘receipt’ for plastic surgery: report

Kaitlin Armstrong, the Texas woman accused in the love triangle slaying of one of the country’s top gravel cyclists, reportedly had her sister’s passport in her possession when law enforcement caught up with her on an idyllic Costa Rica beach Wednesday.Armstrong, 34, is accused of gunning down Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson, a 25-year-old leading pro cyclist who had a romantic history with Armstrong’s boyfriend, Colin Strickland. Like Wilson, the 35-year-old Strickland is also a cycling pro.

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Kaitlin Armstrong, Texas love triangle murder suspect, in Houston awaiting transport to Austin

HOUSTON - The Austin, Texas, woman accused of killing cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson is in jail in Harris County awaiting transport back to Travis County.34-year-old Kaitlin Armstrong arrived at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston Saturday after being arrested by US Marshals in Costa Rica last week. Armstrong is charged with murder in the shooting death of 25-year-old Moriah Wilson at a home on Maple Avenue in East Austin on May 11. Armstrong was captured Wednesday in a remote Costa Rican beach town after 43 days on the run.

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Plannig international travel? 2 tourist destinations are recently added to ‘high’ COVID risk list

CNN report pointed out, In a weekly update with little movement overall, the move to Level 3 is a big jump up for Kuwait, which had been at Level 1. The Dominican Republic moved up from Level 2. Level 3, or "high," is now the top rung in terms of risk level and applies to places that have had more than 100 cases per 100,000 residents in the past 28 days.

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COVID-19 Scan for May 10, 2022

An observational study using a multinational database of 447 maternal COVID-19 deaths in Latin America reveals that over 90% were attributed to acute respiratory failure after severe infection and that 35% of the women who died were never admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU), possibly due to lack of capacity.The analysis, led by researchers at the Universidad de Cartagena in

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Planet Fitness to offer high schoolers free gym membership

A woman leg lifts at Planet Fitness in the Columbia Mall on July 24, 2017 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. - Mall space is being repurposed as more department store chains close stores that have traditionally served as "anchors" at malls.

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US returns to World Cup despite loss at Costa Rica

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - MARCH 30: Kellyn Acosta #23 of the United States during a FIFA World Cup qualifier game between Costa Rica and USMNT at Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica on March 30, 2022 in San Jose, Costa Rica. (Photo by Brad Smith/ISI Photos/G SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - The United States men are returning to the World Cup after the trauma of missing the 2018 tournament, clinching a berth for this year’s championship in Qatar on Wednesday despite a 2-0 loss to Costa Rica on the final night of qualifying.Juan Pablo Vargas got behind Walker Zimmerman and headed Brandon Aguilera’s corner kick past goalkeeper Zack Steffen in the 51st minute, and Anthony Contreras knocked in a cross off a scramble in the 59th after Steffen couldn’t hold onto a free kick.A sellout crowd of about 35,000 in National Stadium came to life, but the Americans’ 5-1 rout of Panama at home last weekend gave them a huge goal-difference margin over Costa Rica.

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Canadian men’s soccer team qualifies for World Cup with 4-0 win over Jamaica

Canada put on a show Sunday, qualifying for the men’s World Cup for the first time since 1985.

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Canadian soccer team’s bid for World Cup qualification put on hold in Costa Rica

Canada’s bid to seal World Cup qualification was put on hold Thursday after a 1-0 loss to Costa Rica that saw the Canadians play a man down for almost two-thirds of the match.

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Child collides with sloth on zip line in Costa Rican rainforest

LA FORTUNA, Costa Rica - It was a wild ride for one child, who ran into an unlikely obstruction while zip lining: a sloth.A child zooming on a zip line through a rainforest in La Fortuna, Costa Rica collided into a sloth clinging to the cable on March 13.RELATED: ‘Very exciting’: Killer whale caught on camera by Alaskan boatersIn the video, captured by a tour guide at Go Adventure Arenal Park, the tour guide can be heard telling the boy "no break," before the child hits the slow-moving sloth and abruptly stops. "I just clocked him straight in the face. What do I do about the sloth?" the boy asks in the video. The tour guide answers, "We just wait." Flavio Leiton Ramos, the owner of the park, told Storyful they did not expect a sloth to be on the cable, since the child was the last of eight customers to leave the platform."So seven people went on that cable and there was no sloth on it, and within 30 seconds a sloth got on the cable," Ramos said.

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Kid runs into sloth while zip-lining in Costa Rica

A tour guide captured the moment a child zooming on a zip-line through a rainforest in La Fortuna, Costa Rica, collided into a slow-moving sloth clinging to the cable.

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Netflix to launch test that requires subscribers to pay for users outside household

OCTOBER 23: In this photo illustration, user profile logos of the Netflix media service provider's is displayed on the screen of a television on October 23, 2018 in Paris, France. The US video-on-demand company Netflix announced Monday it wants to ra LOS ANGELES - Netflix will soon launch a test that would prompt subscribers to pay an additional fee to allow users outside their households to use the account. According to the subscription streaming service's current "Terms of Use" agreement, any content accessed through its service for personal use "may not be shared with individuals beyond your household" — a condition that Netflix has looked over or dismissed for years.Now the company says it will launch and test a new feature for its members in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru, which will require members to add "sub accounts" for up to two people they don’t live with at a cost of 2,380 CLP in Chile, 2.99 USD in Costa Rica and 7.9 PEN in Peru. No announcement has been made whether the features will eventually be tested in the United States.RELATED: 'Squid Game' tops 'Bridgerton' as Netflix's biggest series launch ever"We’ve always made it easy for people who live together to share their Netflix account, with features like separate profiles and multiple streams in our Standard and Premium plans," the company wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

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CDC adds 15 more destinations to ‘high risk’ travel list

ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added a number of places to an advisory list that warns against travel due to the continuing spread of the novel coronavirus and its contagious omicron variant.According to the CDC, 15 new destinations were cited Monday as a level four — meaning "very high risk" — for Americans. Those cities include Columbia, Costa Rica, Fiji, Jamaica, Kuwait, Mongolia, Peru, Romania, Saint Martin, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and the Dominican Republic. Countries are given a "Level 4" designation when more than 500 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents are registered in the past 28 days.Travel to the 15 new destinations has been discouraged by the health agency. Those who must travel to these destinations are encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to their trip."Do not travel internationally until you are fully vaccinated," the advisory said.

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Love Islander boasts about her NINE holidays this year – despite pandemic

SHANNON Singh, 23, was the first Islander to be booted off the 2021 show after only two days in the villa. The glamour model shared on Instagram that she has been on nine holidays despite the coronavirus pandemic.

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Canada wins 1-0 over Costa Rica in World Cup qualifying match at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium

Alphonso Davies went into a scrum of Costa Rican defenders and ricocheted off the crossbar.The game marked the first time Davies played a competitive game in Edmonton since his early teens. But throughout the first half, the Bayern Munich star was regularly crowded out by two or three defenders each time he got close to the ball.He did get a look at goal in the 15th minute, but his shot was blocked thanks to a sliding effort from defender Oscar Duarte.Davies had another chance in the 66th minute, but he blasted his shot over the bar.Costa Rica’s best chance of the game came in the 34th minute.

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WHO provides support around the world to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control through vaccines and other critical measures

“Vaccines are a powerful tool that will help to bring the pandemic under control...”said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a recent event.

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Covid-19 travel rules: List of countries Indians can now visit at the moment

List of countries that don’t require Indians to undergo quarantine on arrival:

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Powerful magnitude-6.8 quake shakes Panama and Costa Rica

PANAMA CITY - A powerful magnitude-6.8 earthquake shook Panama and Costa Rica on Wednesday afternoon, but it was relatively far from the largest population centers and there were no immediate reports of damage.The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the quake was off the Pacific coast of Panama and Costa Rica’s shared border, about 30 miles south of Punta de Burica, Panama.

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Israel issues 'severe' warning against travel to UAE due to covid outbreak

COVID cases, Israel has issued a "severe" travel warning to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), adding the Gulf state to a list of countries which Israelis are advised not to visit.Times of Israel reported that the Health Ministry on Wednesday issued a "severe" warning against travel to the UAE and added the Gulf state to a list of countries which Israelis are advised not to visit due to COVID-19 outbreak.The country has removed Peru from the list, which now includes the UAE, Uganda, Uruguay, Seychelles, Ethiopia, Bolivia, Maldives, Namibia, Nepal, Paraguay, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica and Tunisia.Citing the Ministry statement, Times of Israel said that if there is not a "significant improvement" in morbidity figures in those countries, they

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Pakistan bans entry of 26 nations' citizens including India over Covid fears

travel date while countries in C category are restricted and people can travel only under specific NCOC guidelines," an official of the Pakistan's Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) said.The 26 countries placed in the C category include India, Iran, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Iraq, the Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Tunisia, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Namibia, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay.Apart from the nations in "C category", the rest have been included in the "B category".

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How US will distribute 8 crore Covid vaccines to countries? Announcement soon

Joe Biden could announce as early as Thursday details of Washington's plan for distributing 80 million doses of coronavirus vaccine globally."I want you to know as well that in a few short days ...

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Costa Rica priest sings public health message amid pandemic

SAN JOSE – A Roman Catholic priest better known for his outreach to the poor is winning new fans with his catchy public health-focused lyrics set to a popular 1990s salsa tune as Costa Rica experiences its worst moment of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Latin America looks to space, despite limitations on ground

MEXICO CITY – Mars missions, astronauts coming and going at the International Space Station, China’s increasingly ambitious space program. Space-related news is flowing, and not just from the world’s richest, biggest nations. Take Latin America.

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India among five countries added to hotel quarantine list

India is among five countries that have been added to the list of designated states from which passengers arriving into Ireland must enter Mandatory Hotel Quarantine.

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World leaders back pandemic treaty idea for future emergencies

The leaders of 23 countries and the World Health Organization have backed an idea to create an international treaty that would help the world deal with future health emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic.

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WHO, 23 nations back creation of pandemic treaty to prepare for future health crises

World Health Organization on Tuesday backed an idea to create an international treaty that would help the world deal with future health emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic now ravaging the globe.The idea of such a treaty, which would ensure universal and equitable access to vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for pandemics, was floated by the chairman of European Union leaders Charles Michel at a G20 summit last November.

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Pickering, Ont., councillors under fire for travelling during coronavirus lockdown

UBC public health faculty members pen letter slamming director’s Hawaiian vacation In a Facebook post, Ashe said, “My wife and I returned to the Bahamas to visit Alex’s ashes.”The deputy mayor detailed that this has been a tradition since his son died by suicide in 2018.“Since his passing we (our family and his fiancé) have left a piece of Alex, who was an avid traveller, in numerous special places around the world including Glacier Bay Alaska, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Croatia, Mexico, Bermuda, and finally Hawaii,” said Ashe.The councillor is now isolating with his wife and has tested negative after three separate COVID tests.McLean says he is dealing with a property issue in Costa Rica, where he currently remains stuck

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Brazil scrambles to approve virus vaccine as pressure mounts

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil, a nation proud of its role as a regional leader in science, technology and medicine, finds itself falling behind its neighbors in the global race for immunization against a pandemic that has already killed nearly 200,000 of its people.Latin America’s largest nation, long heralded for its domestic vaccine development programs, appears to be at least three or four weeks away from launching any formal immunization campaign against COVID-19.

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COVID-19 Scan for Dec 18, 2020

A Latin American study of children with COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal found higher rates of the disease among Latin/Hispanic children compared with other global estimates.The multicenter study evaluated 95 children (median age

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Mueller scores twice, US routs El Salvador 6-0 in exhibition

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Chris Mueller scored twice in his international debut, Ayo Akinola got a goal in his first game and the United States overwhelmed El Salvador 6-0 on Wednesday night in its fourth and final exhibition of the pandemic-shortened year.Paul Arriola scored in his first start for club or country since tearing his right Achilles tendon in D.C. United’s preseason match on Feb.

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Costa Rica is producing a new corps of skilled tropical biologists. But many can’t find jobs at home

Jocelyn KaiserMOUNT CHIRRIPÓ IN COSTA RICA—Framed by drifting clouds, ecologist Andrea Vincent surveyed the hot tub–size dome her students had erected here at nearly 3800 meters, on Costa Rica’s highest peak. “We did it!” she exulted.

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Hundreds of sea turtles cross beach for mass nesting in Costa Rica

OSTIONAL, Costa Rica - A beachgoer in Costa Rica happened upon an amazing sight: hundreds of sea turtles making their way onshore to lay their eggs.Jairo Quiros Rosales was at Ostional Beach on Sunday when scores of olive ridley sea turtles began crawling up on the sand.Rosales said the turtles synchronize their egg-laying, in what's called an "arridaba" or large-scale nesting.Related: St. Louis Zoo says python laid 7 eggs without male helpAccording to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, breeding colony populations of olive ridley sea turtles are considered endangered on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, while all others are listed as threatened.The turtles get their name for the olive color of their shells, and are one of the smallest of the sea

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Costa Rica will begin allowing American tourists from 6 states to visit

FILE - Shoppers buy at Mercado Central wearing face masks on July 16, 2020 in San Jose, Costa Rica. (Photo by Arnoldo Robert/Getty Images)SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - The Costa Rica Tourism Board has announced that it will begin allowing some U.S.

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US could open WCup qualifying in Trinidad, site of '17 loss

NEW YORK – The United States will open qualifying for the 2022 World Cup on the road next June, possibly back in Trinidad and Tobago where it was eliminated from reaching the 2018 tournament.The Americans will close their 14-match round in March 2022 at Costa Rica, where they have lost seven straight qualifiers.The U.S. qualified for seven straight World Cups before missing the 2018 tournament.

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Watch: Space rocks impacted this Costa Rican village in more ways than one

Joel GoldbergThere are treasures buried underground, like gold, silver, and diamonds—and then there is manna from heaven.Last year, a meteorite impact in Costa Rica stirred up a frenzied hunt for the precious fragments and attracted collectors from around the world. The meteorite—a rare type known as a carbonaceous chondrite—may contain complex organic molecules that gave life on Earth a head start.

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An unusual meteorite, more valuable than gold, may hold the building blocks of life

Clays in a 44-millimeter-wide Aguas Zarcas fragment may hold amino acids, along with stardust that predates the Sun. By Joshua SokolAs the fiery emissary streaked across the skies of Costa Rica, an unearthly mix of orange and green, Marcia Campos Muñoz was in her pajamas, watching TV on the couch.

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Naps and cardiovascular health: The pros and cons

case-control study of a Greek population found that those who took a nap were at a lower risk of developing coronary heart disease than those who did not. The study appeared in 1988, and it set the tone for much of the ensuing research on napping.

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And then there were 8: CONCACAF hexagonal becomes octagonal

NEW YORK – CONCACAF is changing its World Cup qualifying hexagonal to an octagonal in response to the coronavirus pandemic and delaying the start until next June.The United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica and Honduras receive byes directly to the octagonal, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football announced Monday.CONCACAF’s other 30 nations will compete for three additional spots in the final round.

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Coast Guard unloads more than 3 tons of cocaine in Florida

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The US Coast Guard unloaded some 6,800 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades, Florida on June 23, a week after the $100 million-plus haul was seized off the shores of Costa Rica.This footage shows crew on the Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant offloading the drugs, which an accompanying statement said were bundled into a total of 122 bales.The Coast Guard said the cocaine was seized in two operations off the coast of Limon, Costa Rica, on June 15.

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Buy now, fly later? What travel experts say about today’s low prices for future flights

FOX NEWS - There’s never been a worse time to fly.With coronavirus cases surging in some states and more international borders closed than open, the friendly skies aren’t so friendly. But there is a silver lining.

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How Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas Fell in Love Under Quarantine

put a strain on any couple's relationship, for Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, it's been the exact opposite.Affleck and de Armas, his co-star, first sparked romance rumors when they were spotted vacationing together in Cuba in early March, even though they wrapped filming on their new movie weeks prior. It soon became clear the two were more than friends, after they were snapped cuddling together on the beach in Costa Rica.While 47-year-old Affleck has been, for the most part, private about his recent relationships, it was clear from the start that he didn't have this issue with de Armas.

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