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New CMS academic calendar would get rid of early release days
1+ hour, 49+ 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…...
Scientists found a 675-year-old shoe perfectly preserved in a vulture's nest
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (281+ words) What's the oldest piece of clothing in your closet? Maybe a hand-me-down hat, a jacket from your high school football days. How about a 675-year-old shoe? ANTONI MARGALIDA: (Through interpreter) It's a sandal made of grass rope that has been…...
Photos: The perilous lives of men who salvage coal from abandoned mines
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (1308+ words) When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job that made him happy....
The economist who coined the acronym BRICS talks about how his original vision evolved
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (525+ words) BRICS has drawn the ire of President Trump. That's the economic alliance that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. And this week, Trump called BRICS, quote, "anti the United States." Adrian Ma and Darian Woods over at The…...
'We are on our knees': U.S. tariffs devastate Lesotho's garment workers
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (1405+ words) MASERU, Lesotho "Crowds of women, bundled up in wooly hats and mittens against the sharp winter chill, wait every morning at the gates of a garment factory in Lesotho's capital, hoping that a few among them will be called in…...
Next time you see a vulture picking over a carcass, say 'thank you!"
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (577+ words) Growing up in India, environmental economist Anant Sudarshan remembers the vultures. "When I used to go to school, the school bus would cross the river. And you always saw these vultures in vast quantities," he said. "They would feed on…...
Torture and treason trials: what's happening in Tanzania?
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (583+ words) JOHANNESBURG "At a packed press conference this week two East African activists wiped away tears as they detailed their alleged sexual assault and torture while in detention in Tanzania. Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire - who was…...
The U.K. hands Chagos Islands over to Mauritius but says it will secure a U.S. base
8+ mon, 6+ day ago (705+ words) LONDON " The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement Britain says will also ensure the future of a strategically important U.S. military base. The Chagos Islands are an archipelago…...
First group of Afrikaners granted refugee status are on their way to the U.S.
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (837+ words) The first group of white Afrikaner South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration enroute to U.S. as most other refugee admissions still suspended. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa " A group of 49 white Afrikaners who have been given refugee status by the Trump…...
South Africa reels over Trump's offer of refugee status to white Afrikaners
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (639+ words) President Trump's controversial executive order offering refugee status to the White Afrikaner minority in South Africa has enflamed tensions in the country and emboldened some who want to secede. The U.S. has started scheduling interviews with some Afrikaners in South Africa....