Troy Knight
@travelconsultant.bsky.social
Travel consultant crafting unforgettable journeys worldwide. From solo escapes to multi-gen adventures, cruises, river cruises, tours & customized,I plan it all. 🌎✈️
Based in Vancouver.
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Based in Vancouver.
[email protected]
https://linktr.ee/near.and.far.destinations
I’m attending a Peru Tourism event tonight
September 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I’m attending a Peru Tourism event tonight
The Best Time to Travel to the Caribbean
The Caribbean isn’t just a place — it’s a feeling. A warm breeze at sunset, a drink in hand and a rhythm that lives in the air. But when is the best time to go?
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The Caribbean isn’t just a place — it’s a feeling. A warm breeze at sunset, a drink in hand and a rhythm that lives in the air. But when is the best time to go?
Read more about it in the article
www.travelleaders.com/travelbetter...
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May 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Best Time to Travel to the Caribbean
The Caribbean isn’t just a place — it’s a feeling. A warm breeze at sunset, a drink in hand and a rhythm that lives in the air. But when is the best time to go?
Read more about it in the article
www.travelleaders.com/travelbetter...
The Caribbean isn’t just a place — it’s a feeling. A warm breeze at sunset, a drink in hand and a rhythm that lives in the air. But when is the best time to go?
Read more about it in the article
www.travelleaders.com/travelbetter...
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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
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Sweden says Russia is greatest threat to its security
Sweden says Russia is greatest threat to its security
The nation's security service says there is a "tangible risk" of the security situation deteriorating further.
www.bbc.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Sweden says Russia is greatest threat to its security
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OTTAWA — The federal government is rejecting the recommendations of two of its own ministers and refusing to issue an emergency order protecting southern resident killer whales from "imminent threats" to their survival.
Feds refuse protection order for southern resident orcas, rejecting ministers' advice
OTTAWA — The federal government is rejecting the recommendations of two of its own ministers and refusing to issue an emergency order protecting southern resident killer whales from "imminent threats" to their survival.
dlvr.it
March 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
OTTAWA — The federal government is rejecting the recommendations of two of its own ministers and refusing to issue an emergency order protecting southern resident killer whales from "imminent threats" to their survival.
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As a measles outbreak spreads across western Texas, Dr. Ana Montanez is trying to convince some parents that vitamin A, touted by vaccine critics as effective against the highly contagious virus, will not protect their children reut.rs/4kxgvRC
Doctors push back as parents embrace Kennedy and vitamin A in Texas measles outbreak
Dr. Ana Montanez is working overtime in Lubbock to contact vaccine-hesitant parents, explaining the grave risks posed by a disease that most American families have never seen, and one that can be prevented through immunization.
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March 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
As a measles outbreak spreads across western Texas, Dr. Ana Montanez is trying to convince some parents that vitamin A, touted by vaccine critics as effective against the highly contagious virus, will not protect their children reut.rs/4kxgvRC
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If #Arsenal beat #ManUnited on Sunday, they will be the first club in #PremierLeague history to beat the Manchester United five times in a row in the competition’s history.
March 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If #Arsenal beat #ManUnited on Sunday, they will be the first club in #PremierLeague history to beat the Manchester United five times in a row in the competition’s history.
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President Trump has directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up logging across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.
Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests
The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
President Trump has directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up logging across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.
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A handful of Republican senators have joined their Democratic colleagues in expressing alarm over the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and gutting of USAID, writing to Marco Rubio that they believe the State Department is not operating in accordance with the law.
Behind the scenes, GOP senators challenge legality of Trump’s aid cuts
A handful of Republican senators, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, joined Democrats to quietly express alarm about how President Donald Trump is freezing foreign aid.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A handful of Republican senators have joined their Democratic colleagues in expressing alarm over the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and gutting of USAID, writing to Marco Rubio that they believe the State Department is not operating in accordance with the law.
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Scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark fragments resembling obsidian inside his skull. The eruption somehow turned his brain into glass reut.rs/4hUD557
Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a man's brain into glass. Here's how it happened
It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark fragments resembling obsidian inside his skull. It turns out the eruption had somehow turned his brain into glass.
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February 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark fragments resembling obsidian inside his skull. The eruption somehow turned his brain into glass reut.rs/4hUD557
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A growing measles outbreak in Texas, where one unvaccinated child died and nearly 20 others were hospitalized with serious complications, marks the first major test for US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a longtime vaccine skeptic reut.rs/41Bw17L
Measles death in Texas puts Kennedy's vaccine views to the test
A growing measles outbreak in Texas, where one unvaccinated child died and nearly 20 others have been hospitalized with serious complications, marks the first major test for U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a longtime vaccine skeptic.
reut.rs
February 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A growing measles outbreak in Texas, where one unvaccinated child died and nearly 20 others were hospitalized with serious complications, marks the first major test for US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a longtime vaccine skeptic reut.rs/41Bw17L
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La Liga president Javier Tebas says the Spanish league has filed a legal complaint to the EU Commission, alleging that #ManCity have breached EU Competition Law
February 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
La Liga president Javier Tebas says the Spanish league has filed a legal complaint to the EU Commission, alleging that #ManCity have breached EU Competition Law
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A framework agreement outlining US access to revenues from Ukraine's natural resources in exchange for security guarantees has legal gaps that must be filled in future negotiations, four experts told Reuters a day before the countries' leaders meet in Washington reut.rs/3DnC8D4
Experts cite legal gaps in Trump's minerals deal with Ukraine
A framework agreement outlining U.S. access to revenues from Ukraine's natural resources in exchange for security guarantees has legal gaps that must be filled in future negotiations, four experts told Reuters a day before the countries' leaders meet in Washington.
reut.rs
February 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A framework agreement outlining US access to revenues from Ukraine's natural resources in exchange for security guarantees has legal gaps that must be filled in future negotiations, four experts told Reuters a day before the countries' leaders meet in Washington reut.rs/3DnC8D4
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More than $79,000 was given out in fines in 2024 to drivers illegally operating ride-hailing services.
$13K meted out in fines in Richmond RCMP ride-hailing sting
More than $79,000 was given out in fines in 2024 to drivers illegally operating ride-hailing services.
dlvr.it
February 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
More than $79,000 was given out in fines in 2024 to drivers illegally operating ride-hailing services.
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An impact crater, roughly 1.5 km wide, on the surface of Mars, captured by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 257 km above the planets surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Uarizona
Credit: NASA/JPL/Uarizona
February 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
An impact crater, roughly 1.5 km wide, on the surface of Mars, captured by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 257 km above the planets surface.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Uarizona
Credit: NASA/JPL/Uarizona
Why Costa Rica should be on your travel radar. Read my short blog post. #costarico #purevida #travel
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February 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Why Costa Rica should be on your travel radar. Read my short blog post. #costarico #purevida #travel
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Elon Musk’s Starlink communications network is facing increasingly stiff challenges to its dominance of high-speed satellite internet, including from a Chinese state-backed rival and another service financed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reut.rs/4ke0Cj2
Musk's Starlink races with Chinese rivals to dominate satellite internet
Elon Musk's primacy in space is seen as a threat by Beijing, which is both investing heavily in rivals and funding military research into tools that track satellite constellations.
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February 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Elon Musk’s Starlink communications network is facing increasingly stiff challenges to its dominance of high-speed satellite internet, including from a Chinese state-backed rival and another service financed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reut.rs/4ke0Cj2
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President Donald Trump said in a post on social media that Dan Bongino, a conservative talk show host, will be deputy director of the FBI reut.rs/3F1hPvG
Trump says Dan Bongino to be FBI deputy director
President Donald Trump said in a post on social media Sunday that Dan Bongino, a conservative talk show host, will be deputy director of the FBI.
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February 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
President Donald Trump said in a post on social media that Dan Bongino, a conservative talk show host, will be deputy director of the FBI reut.rs/3F1hPvG
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⚡️Tusk proposes 3-point plan to strengthen Ukraine, European security.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Feb. 20 proposed a three-point plan to strengthen Ukraine in its fight against Russia's full-scale invasion and enhance European security.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Feb. 20 proposed a three-point plan to strengthen Ukraine in its fight against Russia's full-scale invasion and enhance European security.
Tusk proposes 3-point plan to strengthen Ukraine, European security
The EU must fund Ukraine with frozen Russian assets, strengthen borders, and boost defense spending, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Feb. 20.
kyivindependent.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
⚡️Tusk proposes 3-point plan to strengthen Ukraine, European security.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Feb. 20 proposed a three-point plan to strengthen Ukraine in its fight against Russia's full-scale invasion and enhance European security.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Feb. 20 proposed a three-point plan to strengthen Ukraine in its fight against Russia's full-scale invasion and enhance European security.
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A superyacht the size of a football pitch which belongs to one of the world's wealthiest men has been spotted at a UK docks.
Billionaire's £200m superyacht spotted in UK city with amazing luxury item
www.mirror.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A superyacht the size of a football pitch which belongs to one of the world's wealthiest men has been spotted at a UK docks.