South Africans praised a Botswana community for helping a fallen truck with alcohol, contrasting with looting incidents, highlighting discipline and morals.
South Africans praised a Botswana community for helping a fallen truck with alcohol, contrasting with looting incidents, highlighting discipline and morals.
Three years ago, Fadel Abbas marched with tens of thousands of fellow Iraqis chanting for the "fall of the regime" in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, meaning "liberation" in Arabic. A scar runs across his left hand, a reminder of the violent crackdown unleashed by the security forces three years ago.
Sitting in a white all-terrain truck, Nasser al-Marri watched his remote-controlled camel race across the Qatar desert and insisted that his sport makes football pale in comparison. Abdallah Hafiz, 21 -- who said he will be rooting for the Netherlands -- hopes many of the football fans will make it to the track "to discover the sport of our ancestors".
US President Joe Biden flies into UN climate talks in Egypt on Friday armed with major domestic achievements against global warming but under pressure to do more for countries reeling from natural disasters. Cooperation between the world's two biggest polluters has been crucial to global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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