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Humble Mzansi man wishes late gogo could see the progress he's made on their family home, making her proud
A young man took to social media to show the progress that he has made on his family’s home. He wishes his late gogo could see what he is doing in her honour.
Ecuador police requisition cultural center under state of emergency
Ecuadoran police requisitioned an Indigenous cultural center in Quito on Sunday to use as a base for monitoring anti-government protests by Indigenous people, the institution said. "Joy has died tonight, the House of Culture has fallen into the hands of police terror, we live in a dictatorship," Fernando Ceron, president of the cultural center, tweeted on Sunday.
Swimming to set up 'open category' for transgender athletes
Swimming will set up an 'open category' to allow transgender athletes to compete as part of a new policy which will effectively ban them from women's races. But "male-to-female transgender athletes... can only compete as female athletes in FINA competition, and set a world records in the female category, if they can establish they have not experienced any part of male puberty."
Pope's future sparks debate, resignation seems unlikely
Pope Francis has fuelled the rumour mill with a postponed Africa trip and the curious timing of an upcoming meeting of cardinals -- but experts caution against assuming a resignation is nigh.
Kenya's khat producers eager to resume exports to Somalia
As the afternoon sun starts to dip over central Kenya, the town of Maua buzzes with activity as the khat harvest arrives. "The resumption (of trade) would be like a rebirth" for the region, said Kimathi Munjuri, chairman of the Nyambene Miraa Traders Association in central Kenya.
Ukraine mechanics turn rally cars into 'combat buggies'
At a workshop in Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, mechanics are hard at work turning rally cars into vehicles that can be used to fight Russian troops on the frontline. Now they are completing work on a "combat buggy" with the engine from a Russian Lada model used by Ukrainian rally drivers -- their second such conversion.
Offshore detention survivors decry UK's Rwanda scheme
Britain's plan to send migrants and asylum seekers to Rwanda has left survivors of a similar scheme in Australia wondering why the "failed" policy that shattered their lives is being revived elsewhere. Now the concept is being given new life by Britain, which plans to send asylum seekers to the land-locked African nation of Rwanda.
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Little known facts about Harolyn Suzanne Nicholas, Dorothy Dandridge's daughter
HAROLYN SUZANNE NICHOLAS, DOROTHY DANDRIDGE'S DAUGHTER was born with brain damage known as cerebral anoxia. Her father abandoned them at a young age. Full
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