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Published: September 27, 2022 8.27am EDT Two very different Brazils could emerge after voters go the polls to elect a president on Oct. 2, 2022. In one scenario, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s current president, will manage to stay in power – by either winning the vote or illegally ignoring it – and continue to push the…
Under the ‘American Plan,’ women could be detained for sitting in a restaurant alone, changing jobs—or, often, for no reason at all. SCOTT W. STERN – UPDATED:JUL 21, 2019 ORIGINAL:MAR 27, 2019 For much of the 20th century in America, a little-known but widespread government program locked people up without trials simply for having sexually…
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1 JUNE 2022allAfrica.com As of June 1, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 11,726,101 while 300,069,590 vaccinations have been administered across the continent. Reported deaths in Africa reached 253,954 and 9,859,174 people have recovered. South Africa has the most reported cases of 3,957,777 and 101,190 people died. Other most-affected countries are…
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by STAFF WRITER April 16, 2022 MIAMI, Apr. 16, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says that the crew from its cutter Decisive repatriated 109 Haitian migrants to Cap-Haitien, Haiti on Friday, after they were intercepted about 35 miles east of Punta Maisi, Cuba. The US Coast Guard said the Decisive’s crew spotted the overloaded vessel and…
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Somalia’s Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble expelled the African Union representative Francisco Madeira on April 7, 2022 because of acts incompatible with his status. The order has however been rejected by President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo – signalling a new rift between the two Somali leaders. The prime minister’s office said the African Union representative must…
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A shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico has been identified and the mystery of its multiracial crew’s fate unraveled. By Maggie Astor March 23, 2022 The shipwreck formally known as No. 15563 has been identified as Industry, the only whaling ship known to have sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. On Wednesday, scientists announced they were…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Tuesday that it “strongly condemns” what it called Russia’s “orchestration of a sham trial” against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after a court found him guilty of large-scale fraud and contempt of court, a move likely to extend Navalny’s jail time by years. Sate Department spokesperson Ned Price…
by STAFF WRITER December 28, 2021 KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, Dec 28, CMC – Scoreboard of the second Youth One-Day International between West Indies Under-19s and South Africa Under-19s at Arnos Vale Stadium here Tuesday: SOUTH AFRICA J Smith c Bishop b Layne 2 V Kitime run out 0 A Simelane c Bishop b Clarke 14 *G Van…
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By Manoj Kumar and Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The Indian government on Monday “refused” to renew a permission that is vital for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to be able to secure foreign funds, cutting off a key source the charity has depended on to run its programs for the impoverished. Nobel-laureate Mother…
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa has recalled rules that no longer required people without symptoms of COVID-19 to isolate or test if they have been in contact with a positive case, the government announced on Tuesday, saying an amended circular will be re-issued. Last week the health ministry said that asymptomatic individuals who had been…
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