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"What a joke": Reactions flood as USA issues ‘Do Not Travel’ warning for Southern Africa destination

The US warns against travel to northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado Province due to terrorist threats, joining similar advisories from the UK, Canada, and Australia.

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Feathers fly as Philippine cockfighting shakes off Covid closures

3 years ago by AFP

UK's Sunak poised to become PM as Johnson quits leadership race

3 years ago by AFP

China economy grows 3.9 percent year-on-year in third quarter

3 years ago by AFP

It's a man's world: no more women leaders in China's Communist Party

3 years ago by AFP

The Communist Party Congress has laid bare the striking gender imbalance in the upper echelons of Chinese politics, with not a single woman making the 24-person Politburo for the first time in at least a quarter of a century. Even though women make up about 29 percent of the total Communist Party membership, vanishingly few of them manage to ascend from grassroots positions.

Costa Rica says German businessman Schaller, family in plane crash

3 years ago by AFP

Costa Rican authorities on Sunday confirmed that German millionaire Rainer Schaller and his family were on board a small plane that crashed in the Caribbean, as recovery efforts were hindered by bad weather. On Sunday, coast guard vessels departed in the early morning but bad weather complicated the search and it was suspended about 12 hours later.

For struggling Haiti, return of cholera is a 'catastrophe'

3 years ago by AFP

When humanitarian officials in Haiti try to describe their concerns over a new, fast-spreading cholera epidemic, they struggle to find words strong enough: "alarming," "chaotic," even "a catastrophe." - Humanitarian corridors - The return of cholera has revived nightmarish memories of the epidemic introduced by blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers in 2010, after a major earthquake ravaged the country.

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