Mina Fabulous

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Mina Fabulous follows the news, especially what is going on in the US State Department. Mina turns State Department waffle into plain English. Mina Fabulous is the pen name of Carmen Avalino, the NewsBlaze production editor. When she isn't preparing stories for NewsBlaze writers, she writes stories, but to separate her editing and writing identities, she uses the name given by her family and friends.

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US-Australia Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty Comes Into Force

Secretary Kerry says this treaty deepens both countries relationship even further.

Iran’s Destabilizing Activities in The Middle East Under Scrutiny

Iran funds, trains, and equips these terrorist organizations, in whole or in part, to use in attacks around the world.

US Strengthening Trade with ‘The Rising Continent’ Africa

Under Secretary Robert D. Hormats says oil and gas still represent a large portion of Africa's exports and non-petroleum exports under AGOA have tripled to nearly $5 billion since 2001, when AGOA went into effect.

Is Bosnia and Herzegovina Making Progress Toward Its Euro-Atlantic Path?

Deputy Permanet Representative Rosemary A. DiCarlo emphasizes that the local authorities have a legal obligation to respect the authority of the High Representative and the Dayton framework.

Is Assad Ready to ‘Come to Table’ to End Syrian Conflict?

He explains that the Russians Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has informed him that President Assad has already given him the names of people who will negotiate.

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The Debt Collector’s AI Voice Agent: How Synthetic-Voice Dunning Calls Are Colliding With Decades-Old Consumer Protection Rules

Most consumers assume the friendly voice on a collection call belongs to a person following a script. It is often a script following a person. A synthetic voice, cloned or generated by an AI agent, working a call list on behalf of a collect

The Black Box in the Crossover: What Vehicle Event Data Recorders Capture in the Seconds Before a Fatal Pedestrian Crash

A pedestrian killed by a crossover has, on average, about 20 seconds of the driver's inputs sitting inside the car that hit them. Throttle position. Brake pressure. Steering angle. Whether the seat belt was buckled and whether stability con

When the CFO Leaves: How Growing Companies Keep the Books on Track

Most owners assume a CFO exit is mainly an HR headache. Post the job, run the search, backfill the seat. The seat is the easy part. What breaks first is the reporting cadence: the month-end close nobody owns, the covenant calculation that u

Frontline Supervisors Are Sinking Your Safety Program. Here’s the Fix

A single recordable injury can cost an employer tens of thousands of dollars before the lost-productivity ripple even begins, and most of those incidents trace back to a decision a frontline supervisor made, missed, or waved through, rather than to anything the safety director or the C-suite did or failed to do. The shift lead, […]
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