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.
The family of Egypt's jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been refusing food and water, said Thursday prison authorities had told them he is "under medical intervention". His mother Laila Soueif, at the Wadi al-Natroun prison north of Cairo, was informed that "medical intervention was taken" with Abdel Fattah "with the knowledge of judicial entities", his sister Mona Seif wrote on Twitter.
US climate envoy John Kerry urged Pacific island states on Thursday to join global efforts to cut methane emissions in hopes it would sway major emitters China and India to follow suit. "If the rest of the world joins in and makes it clear this is what we have to do, that will, I hope, encourage those other states ... to join in the counting of methane" in their emissions plans, Kerry said.
Hurricane Nicole made landfall on the Atlantic coast of the US state of Florida, meteorologists said Thursday, sparking mandatory evacuation orders.
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