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4+ min ago   (185+ words) Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is working on a new academic calendar for the 2027-28 school year that would consolidate and replace early release days with full teacher workdays. CMS is weighing two calendar options. Both would replace four early release days with two…...

13+ min ago   (579+ words) American YouTube star Darren Jason Watkins Jr., popularly known as iShowSpeed, concluded his month-long Africa tour on Tuesday, January 27, in Namibia, marking the end of a historic 28-day journey that saw him livestream from 20 African countries. Dubbed "Speed Does Africa,…...

33+ min ago   (759+ words) Hundreds of film and television professionals rallied outside Parliament yesterday in the Cape Town leg of the "Save SA Film Jobs" protests. The South African film and television sector has called on the Minister'of Trade, Industry, and Competition,'Parks Tau,…...

33+ min ago   (711+ words) Adolf Hitler has been celebrated in a Tunisian textbook for his role in turning Germany into "a great economic and military power," while the Holocaust is largely absent from the texts, according to new research published by the Institute for…...

34+ min ago   (440+ words) South Africa on Tuesday confirmed that it will withdraw from the Group of 20 (G20) economic forum for the year 2026, because the United States holds the rotating presidency for the year, and relations between Johannesburg and President Donald Trump have been tense....

47+ min ago   (64+ words) The British leader's trip to China comes after several weeks of tension with Trump. Starmer Arrives in China, Promising to Make "Real Progress' With Xi Jinping Starmer, who is traveling with more than 50 representatives of British businesses, will "meet with…...

55+ min ago   (430+ words) Rwanda announced on Tuesday that it had filed proceedings with the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration. The migrant deal entered into force on April 25, 2024. In July 2024, shortly after taking office, the UK's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that the…...

1+ hour ago   (364+ words) The water outage notice in Mountmellickon Uisce "ireann's map. 28 Jan 2026 1:33 PM An entire Laois town and possibly surrounding areas are without water, in an unplanned supply interruption, this Tuesday, January 28. Uisce "ireann (formerly Irish Water) say that the interruption to…...

1+ hour ago   (148+ words) Local officials in Mangaldan, Pangasinan have started processing documents for octogenarians and nonagenarians to help them claim benefits under national senior citizen laws, with a reminder that the entire process is free of charge. The effort follows Republic Act 10868, or…...

1+ hour, 1+ min ago   (704+ words) Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in China for a three-day visit - the first by a British prime minister in eight years. Sir Keir is seeking to strengthen trading and cultural ties between the two nations after years of…...