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R. Kelly's new legal team writes a letter to postpone the racketeering trial date. Apparently, two weeks isn't enough time to defend someone's freedom in court.
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South Africa: Makeshift Church Takes in Flood Victims in Bloekombos
[GroundUp] About 50 people flooded out of their homes in Covid informal settlement in Cape Town have taken refuge in a zinc church in Bloekombos.
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Nigeria Faces a Dire Future As a Fossil Fuel Economy
[Vanguard] TWO recent developments firmly establish Nigeria's future as a fossil fuel economy. One is the newly-passed Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, under which 30 per cent of profits accruing to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, would be used for further oil exploration.
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Vallejo Juneteenth Committee Awards Scholarships to Solano County Students | Post News Group
For the second year in a row, the organization could not hold Vallejo’s Annual Juneteenth Celebration due to COVID-19. AAFRC President Gwendolyn White says launching the scholarship program also celebrates other first time milestones for Vallejo in this historic year for Juneteenth which became
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Mary Francis Accuses Stephenson King Of Cunning, Treachery - St. Lucia Times News
Outspoken Attorney at Law, Mary Francis, has accused Castries North MP, Stephenson King, of cunning and treachery, amid reports that he plans to announce that he will participate in the July 26, 2021 elections as an independent candidate. According to reports, King is scheduled to give a nationwide
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Indigenous peoples scream for help in Brazil - The New York Beacon
      By Viviane Faver     About 850 members from nearly four dozen Brazilian indigenous communities are camped in Brasilia to fight for indigenous land rights currently under consideration in the courts and Congress of Brazil.      While lawmakers still debate the
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US Fossil Fuel Use Drops Big In 2020 As Exit From Coal Continues – The Omaha Star
The last time the United States used this small amount of fossil fuels, baggy shorts were just coming into fashion, “Seinfeld” was the new hit TV sitcom and grunge-band Nirvana had its first chart hits. It was 1991, and it was the last time the U.S. consumed less than 73 quadrillion British thermal
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Tunisia virus situation catastrophic: health ministry | News24
Tunisia's health system has "collapsed" under the weight of the Covid-19 pandemic, the health ministry spokeswoman said.
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Egypt: PM Follows Up Progress of Work in New Aswan City
[Egypt Online] Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli has paid a visit to New Aswan city to follow up progress achieved so far in carrying out development and services projects there.
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Ugandans Found Praying in Public Risk Jail Term in New Covid-19 Laws
[Nairobi News] Ugandans found praying in public risk a two month-jail term for violating public health controls related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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South Africa: IEC Postpones Voter Registration Weekend By Two Weeks
[SAnews.gov.za] The Electoral Commission on Wednesday announced it has postponed the voter registration weekend by two weeks in light of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic currently sweeping the country.
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Export Barbados lauds clean 'incubatees' - Barbados Today
Barbados is now a step closer to becoming a green energy country, as five local entrepreneurs were recently recognised for their environmentally-friendly inventions as part of the Bloom Cleantech Cluster Barbados Incubation programme. During an awards ceremony held at the Bagnall’s Point Gallery
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Community Healthcare System hosting Virtual Job Fair | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Community Healthcare System is hosting a virtual job fair 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 14. Like a traditional job fair, this virtual job fair will bring together Community Healthcare System recruiters and job seekers to discuss a variety of available positions. Registered attendees will ente
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Explore Beyond Golf at St. Andrews - 2021 Guide | PensacolaVoice Magazine 2021
Travel has practically become non-existent in this pandemic situation. We, the humans have a strange affinity towards the hope of betterment often propelling us to take those leaps of faith. This summer people all over the world are taking trips to nearby places to escape the monotony of locked-up
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Testing site at Wildey gymnasium reopened - Barbados Today
The COVID-19 testing site at the Wildey Gymnasium, St. Michael, has reopened following a brief closure, due to the passage of Hurricane Elsa.  The opening hours are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily. The site closes each day at noon and reopens at 1:00 p.m.  The cost for tests for outbound travellers
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Living Water ramps up efforts to help vulnerable - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
The Living Water Community (LWC) has helped some 75,000 local people and refugees since it began supporting those most vulnerable to the pandemic in March 2020. LWC co-ordinator Rochelle Nakhid told Newsday 44,000 Trinidadian families received the hampers it has delivered weekly, while some 30
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Social Security Warns You About Coronavirus Medicare Scams
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Restaurant cleaning is routine maintenance - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee head: We anticipated Tokyo SoE - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
The Japanese government’s decision to declare a covid19 state of emergency (SoE) in Tokyo and ban fans from all stadiums for the Olympic Games had already been factored into the TT Olympic Committee’s plans ahead of the July 23-August 9 gamest. Brian Lewis, TTOC president, said it had anticipa
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BVI Grappling with Hundreds of Active COVID-19 Cases in Sudden Surge
The British Virgin Islands has implemented a nighttime curfew and shuttered businesses such as hairdressers and gyms as it deals with a sudden surge in COVID-19 cases that now number in the hundreds.
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Pierre: 'They Did Not Know What Was In Their Backyard!' - St. Lucia Times News
Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) leader, Philip J. Pierre, has made an apparent reference to  to reports that Castries North MP, Stephenson King, could this week announce that he will participate in the July 26 general elections as an Independent candidate. Prime Minister Allen Chastanet announced
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Trio’s return bolsters squad for Aussie ODIs - Stabroek News
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies selectors have recalled the trio of Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer and Sheldon Cottrell for the three-match One-Day International series against Australia later this month, after nearly a year-and-a-half on the
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South Africa: The Thrill of Speed On a Blacktop Wasteland
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Money Never Sleeps-And Neither does Birmingham’s Jamell Short
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