Senegal's Niokolo-Koba National Park removed from list of World Heritage in danger

Deputy AG under fire over Mines Act amendments

Deputy Attorney-General Nelson Diaz was yesterday accused of stalling proposed amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act when he appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines. BY VENERANDA LANGA Diaz appeared before the committee together with Mines permanent secretary Onesimo

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Trump administration reverses course on barring many foreign students | New York Carib News

After announcing on July 6 that the US would not allow foreign students to remain in the country if all of their classes are moved online, the Trump administration yesterday abandoned the plan following widespread condemnation of the move and pressure from colleges and major businesses.

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Jamaican students relieved as Trump scraps deportation threat

The decision by the Trump administration not to go forward with deporting international students who do not attend in-person classes has been welcomed by the Jamaican community as well as students studying in the United States. Chelsea Wright, a...

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Chamisa appoints acting MDC Alliance president

BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, who lost his mother last week after a short illness, has appointed one of his deputies Welshman Ncube as the party’s acting president with immediate effect. Chamisa’s spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda confirmed the development yesterday. “The

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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt Tests Positive For Coronavirus Weeks After Attending Trump Rally | The Oklahoma Eagle

www.yourstephenvilletx.com By USA TODAY The governor said he would not have been contagious before Saturday and had an asymptomatic case of the coronavirus before receiving his test results Tuesday evening. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt announced Wednesday he had tested positive for

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Gyms, Personal Services, Offices, and Places of Worship Looking to Close Down Due to COVID-19 Spike - Los Angeles Sentinel

Statistics show an escalation in hospitalization, positive cases, and the overall community death rate is still in the double digits. Latest numbers surrounding coronavirus shared on July 13, reflected 13 additional deaths, all of them were between the ages of 65 and over, nine of the victims had

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99 Years After The Tulsa Massacre, Excavation Of Potential Mass Grave Begins : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR

Tulsa officials have begun a test excavation to determine if land on city-owned Oaklawn Cemetery is the site of a mass grave of victims of the race massacre. Most of the victims have never been found.

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Public battle still rages between White House and Fauci - L.A. Focus Newspaper

The White House communications office insisted Navarro did not clear his article through them before it was published in USA Today and Trump distanced himself from it, saying it was

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Nigeria MPs to investigate purported mass resignation in the Army | Africanews

Nigeria members of parliament have resolved to investigate the purported voluntary resignation of 365 military officers from the Nigeria

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'We're Turning It Into a Circus': Charles Barkley Says He Doesn't Like Sports Leagues’ Pandering Responses to Social Justice Issues

Charles Barkley says that he isn't one for symbolic gestures when it comes to how professional sports leagues are responding to social justice issues, and […]

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LAUSD campuses will remain closed when school resumes next month -

LOS ANGELES — Amid spiking coronavirus cases, Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will remain closed when classes resume next month, Superintendent Austin Beutner said July 13, defying President Donald Trump's demand that students return to in-person instruction. “While the new school year

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The ‘new normal’ - Stabroek News

With hindsight, it is more than a little surprising that, glaring and reckless transgressions notwithstanding, large sections of the Guyana population still comply with the unprecedented strictures and encumbrances required of us on account of the most alarming malady that we have ever had to

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Senate Hopeful Prepares Statewide Coronavirus Relief Tour | The Savannah Tribune

Democratic Senate Candidate, Tamara Johnson Shealey is preparing for a summer road trip across the state of Georgia to meet with voters and visit county coronavirus hotspots to assess community needs. She also plans to provide personal protective equipment to beauty and barber professionals who

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Russell Westbrook Reveals He’s Tested Positive for the Coronavirus

The Houston Rockets are now in the NBA's 'bubble' city, located at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. But their star point guard Russell […]

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DNC launches digital ad campaign hitting Trump's COVID-19 response | The Atlanta Voice

In the midst of scathing ads from many Super PACs all aimed at President Trump, the Democratic National Committee has launched their series of attack ads on the President, ahead of his visit to Atlanta this morning. President is expected to announce changes that would speed up big road projects

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Nike Pays Homage To Legendary Rock Group With Upcoming 'Grateful Dead' Pack

Nike Pays Homage To Legendary Rock Group With Upcoming Grateful Dead Pack

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COVID-19 latest: Cases up by 10 496, deaths rise to 4 346.

COVID-19 cases have risen to a total of 298 292, with a further 174 people having succumbed to the deadly virus in the last 24-hours.

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John Legend Questions Kanye West’s Presidential Bid

Apparently, not all artists should speak about politics.

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Reopening the schools: whether and how

Are more Black parents uncomfortable about sending their children back to school in September? If so, why? Source

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‘Every System Should Be On The Table’: Evidence Of Structural Racism Drives Committee’s Push For A Bold Recovery

Committee for Greater LA prepares COVID-19 recovery agenda to advance racial justice with USC/UCLA data to demonstrate effects of racism in...

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Opinion: Lawmakers Can Get Thousands Back To Work By Greenlighting Stalled Projects | Afro

Move these projects forward and get Americans back to work By Bette Grande With more than 40 million Americans out of a job due to the coronavirus pandemic, states are scrambling to help the unemployed and laying plans to reopen the economy. Many of the proposed measures could take time to bring

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Traders who suffered under Taliban go digital | Afro

Zahra Kazemi started her business Bamyan Weavers nearly 30 years ago, when Afghanistan was under Taliban control. She left the country after the Taliban destroyed her trade, returning after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 drove the regime from power. Kazemi, like many traders in the country, needed

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Trump Says, 'So Are White People,' When Asked About Black Americans Killed by Police

The president rejected the fact that Black people suffer disproportionately from police brutality and made startling remarks about the Confederate flag and a recent confrontation in St. Louis.

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6 things to watch in Texas' primary runoff election | Dallas Weekly

Polls open in July. Voters wearing masks and gloves. Texans will be voting in the middle of a pandemic on Tuesday in a runoff election originally scheduled for May. Here’s what to watch for when the results come in. 1. A race to face off against John Cornyn Whoever wins the U.S. Senate Democratic

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Countries pool efforts to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccines | New York Carib News

The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr. Carissa Etienne yesterday said countries in the Americas were pooling their efforts to ensure access to treatments and vaccines for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

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Trump Wants Us To 'Grow Numb' To Coronavirus Deaths And Some Of You Are Helping

What continues to boggle the mind about our national nightmare is how relatively easy the solution seems to be: The federal government should pay everyone to stay home until

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Mayors Like de Blasio and Garcetti Must do More Than Simply Cut Police Budgets — The Sacramento Observer

OPINION - All across California and the country, we are seeing cities slash police budgets in response to the murder of George Floyd and the resulting protests that swept both the nation and the world. These protests were not only demanding justice for Floyd and countless other Black Americans who

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Trump looks to scale back environmental reviews for projects - Black News Channel

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce a new federal rule to speed up the environmental review process for proposed highways, gas pipelines and other major infrastructure, a move that critics are describing as the dismantling of

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Black Student Sent To Juvenile Detention For Not Doing Online Work Highlights Racial Disparities In Education Amid COVID-19 - Blavity

A Black high school sophomore sent to juvenile detention for not signing in to do her online school work during the coronavirus pandemic amplifies the lack of resources and systemic racism within the education system.

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Released Malian protest leader denounces arrest as 'assassination attempt' | Africanews

One of detained Mali protest leaders freed, after three days of unrest has denounced his arrest calling it an assassination

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