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Pope's Africa trip takes him to a source of growth for the church, and critical challenges
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (961+ words) Leo's line, of course, referred to his Augustinian spirituality. But his connection to the Algerian-born St. Augustine, the towering figure of Christianity who is known well to Algeria's Sunni Muslim majority, served at the very least to favorably introduce Leo…...
Microshifting" puts a new spin on 9-to-5 schedules
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1130+ words) She works for an hour or so, then after the school run shops for groceries or gets gas before returning to focus deeply on her job as head writer and cofounder of Sheer Havoc, a creative services agency. And so…...
Facing high Trump tariffs, Africa's leading economy says it's close to a new trade deal with China
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (394+ words) South Africa's Ministry of Trade and Industry said the agreement would start negotiations over a deal that would give some South African goods, such as fruit, duty-free access to the Chinese market. The ministry said it expected the trade deal…...
How a sperm bank for cheetahs might one day save the fastest land animal
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (668+ words) But she worries that the world's fastest land animal might be on the brink of extinction one day and need artificial reproduction to save it. Marker says the sperm bank at the Cheetah Conservation Fund she founded in the southern…...
The G20 summit in South Africa ends with the glaring absence of the US after Trump's boycott
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (692+ words) By GERALD IMRAY, MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and MICHELLE GUMEDE South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared the summit in Johannesburg closed by banging a wooden gavel on a block like a judge would, in a G20 tradition. The gavel would normally be handed…...
Biovac starts trials on South Africa's first domestically developed cholera vaccine
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (456+ words) The oral cholera vaccine, developed by the Cape Town-based pharmaceutical firm Biovac, is currently undergoing trials to determine its safety in adults and will be followed by trials to compare it to existing cholera vaccines that are already in the…...
Lesotho finds its HIV care system unraveling and patients in despair in the wake of US cuts
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (1767+ words) By RENATA BRITO, Associated Press This Lesotho was unimaginable months ago, residents, health workers and experts say. The small landlocked nation in southern Africa long had the world's second-highest rate of HIV infections. But over years, with nearly $1 billion in…...
Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida's Treasure Coast
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (433+ words) Hidden beneath the turquoise waters off a stretch of Florida known as the Treasure Coast, a team of divers from a shipwreck salvage company have uncovered exactly that " a load of long-lost Spanish treasure they estimate is worth $1 million. More…...
Commentary: Worse than ignoring human rights, America is twisting the meaning
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (229+ words) When the second Donald Trump administration began, many worried that it would abandon America's long-standing, bipartisan commitment to human rights around the world." This was the concern during the first administration, too, but career foreign affairs professionals continued much of…...
US pauses most visa applications from Zimbabwe in another restriction on travelers from Africa
8+ mon, 5+ day ago (368+ words) By FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press It came days after the U. S. unveiled a pilot project requiring citizens of two other African countries, Malawi and Zambia, to pay a bond of up to $15, 000 for tourist or business visas. The bond will be…...