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A country-by-country glance at Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa
5+ hour, 12+ min ago (925+ words) Pope Leo XIV's four-nation, 11-day trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II in his early years. Themes Leo is expected to raise include Christian-Muslim coexistence, the…...
South Africa starts mass cattle vaccination program to halt foot-and-mouth outbreak
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (373+ words) The outbreak, which started intensifying late last year and has rapidly spread across the country's livestock industry, has already affected more than 297, 000 cattle and resulted in over 120 000 animals being culled as farmers try to contain the spread. The outbreak threatens…...
Publisher: Dutch novelist and journalist Cees Nooteboom dies at 92
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (268+ words) We will miss the friendship, erudition, passion, and idiosyncrasy of this internationally acclaimed writer," the publishing house added. It did not give a cause of death. Equally comfortable writing fiction, poetry, songs, news reports or travel stories, Nooteboom's extensive oeuvre…...