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Asheville Archives: Who from our city’s past?

As the year comes to an end, Xpress asked a handful of local historians to reflect on who from Asheville’s past would have been best suited to manage the many challenges and tragedies our community faced in 2020.

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How Earthquakes Have Scarred Chile and its People – Dallas Post Tribune

Some of Chile's majestic landscapes result from massive earthquakes, which hit all too often in this South American country. In fact, Chile lived through the strongest earthquake in the world - 9.5 degrees on the Richter scale - in 1960. Chileans have dealt with the consequences of living in

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By STEVE PEOPLES, BILL BARROW and RUSS BYNUM ATLANTA (AP) — Georgians cast their ballots Tuesday in two critical races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate and, in turn, the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s legislative agenda. Two months after Election Day 2020, the voting will also

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Ghanaian President Directs Discourse at Parliament in National Address | Africanews

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo directly engaged with Parliament in the annual delivery on the State of the Nation Address.

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Georgia election official says possible Perdue, Loeffler losses Trump's fault - TheGrio

Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's very-vocal voting system implementation manager, believes the potential election loss of Sen. David Perdue and the actual... View Article The post Georgia election official says possible Perdue, Loeffler losses Trump's fault appeared first on TheGrio.

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Even more contagious? Here’s what you need to know about the mutating virus now in California — The Sacramento Observer

(CALMATTERS) - As California continues to ride its worst wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials have more unsettling news: Six cases of a worrisome, potentially more infectious new coronavirus variant have been detected in California. The new strain, first detected in the United

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Rev. Raphael Warnock pulls historic win for Georgia U.S. Senate

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East Africa: Ethiopia's Greening Campaign to Expand to East Africa in 2021

[Ethiopian Herald] Following the successful plantation of five billion trees during the 2020 greenery campaign, Ethiopia announced to supply six billion seedlings, five billion to be planted at home and the rest one billion seedlings to be distributed among neighboring countries.

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Central African Republic - Respect Final Results of the Election, Urge UN, Partners

[UN News] Senior officials from the United Nations and regional organizations have called on all political actors in the Central African Republic (CAR) to respect the final results of the recent presidential elections, and to settle any disputes peacefully and in accordance with the country's laws.

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Georgia Organizers Galvanizing Historic Number of Democratic Voters Despite Trump and GOP Attacks | Atlanta Daily World

Organizers in Georgia are working today in the final stretch before the polls close to mobilize an historic number of voters in support of Warnock and Ossoff to ensure the results are overwhelmingly clear, all while Trump and the GOP continue to discredit our election processes and dispute

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COVID-19 claims 34 lives in one day

BY MOSES MATENGA THIRTY-FOUR people succumbed to COVID-19 yesterday, taking the country’s death toll to 418. A Health and Child Care ministry report last night showed that there were 1 365 new infections, all of which were local. The total number of infections rose to 17 194, while the country

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Amadou Diallo: A Look Back Into a Police Brutality Case

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Kenya: If You Can't Boost Free Education, Get Ready to Fund Private Schools

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The sixth and final season of the groundbreaking historical epic, 'Vikings', is now streaming first and only on Showmax.

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Botswana-China Talks to strengthen bilateral relations and cooperation between the two nations.

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As Vaccinations Begin in California, a Second COVID Vaccine Is Released

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Lawsuit Alleges Abuse of Special-Needs DCPS Students

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Hump Day: Will the Black working class benefit from the Black Lives Matter movement? - Voice Online

Still though, when all is said and done, when all the companies have recruited for their new diversity schemes, and all the black squares are so far down the grid that they’re forgotten, will Black babies still be more likely to grow up in poverty?

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Iyanla Vanzant Explains Why She’s Ending ‘Fix My Life’

TV personality and author Iyanla Vanzant explains why she is ending her show, "Iyanla Fix My Life," stating, "I don’t want that energy in my life anymore."

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Pandemic kept Guyana cricket quiet in 2020 - Stabroek News

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Percy Tau on the verge of completing dream English top-flight move

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Biden, Harris to promote day of service in the spirit of MLK ahead of inauguration - TheGrio

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Tunisia: Gilbert Naccache, a Crystal Memory

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