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SpaceX wants to bring satellite internet to Iran: Musk
SpaceX wants to bring satellite internet to Iran: Musk
World
by  AFP

SpaceX will apply for an exemption from US sanctions against Iran in a bid to offer its satellite internet service to the country, owner Elon Musk said on Monday. "Starlink will apply for an exemption from sanctions against Iran," Musk said in response to a tweet from a science reporter.

Tough treatment in Ivory Coast schools, expelling 'losers' to boost grades
Tough treatment in Ivory Coast schools, expelling 'losers' to boost grades
Africa
by  AFP

Youngsters in Ivory Coast return to school this week with a sword of Damocles above their heads: those with average grades of less than 8.5 out of 10 will be excluded at the end of the year. It is not uncommon in Ivory Coast to find classrooms with 60 or even 80 pupils, while a lack of teachers sometimes cuts short the school year by several weeks.

Too weak to cry: famine looms over Somalia's children
Too weak to cry: famine looms over Somalia's children
World
by  AFP

As flies buzz over his tiny body, two-year-old Sadak Ibrahim barely whimpers, too weak to cry or shoo them away -- a heartbreaking glimpse of the hunger crisis gripping Somalia. - 'Dramatic increase' - In recent years, climate disasters have increasingly become the main driver of migration in Somalia, which is also grappling with a brutal 15-year Islamist insurgency.

French leader to meet Iran's Raisi to urge revival of deal
French leader to meet Iran's Raisi to urge revival of deal
World
by  AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Tuesday with his Iranian counterpart as Paris warns the clerical state that it will not get a better proposal to revive a nuclear accord. The Elysee Palace said Macron will meet President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York and with US President Joe Biden the next day.

Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up
Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up
World
by  AFP

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where -- with its twin river the Euphrates -- it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilisation thousands of years ago.