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Angela Harutyunyan, Paula Nascimentoare Sharjah Biennial 17 curators: SAF
Gulf Today
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June 30, 2025
Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) has announced that Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento have been appointed as the curators of Sharjah Biennial 17, opening January 2027. Harutyunyan is Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, Berlin University of...
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Electricity Institute has died. He was 68 years old.
Ver Angola
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IRSEA, in a statement VerAngola had access, says it is with "great regret and consternation" that it announces the death of Luís Mourão Garcês da Silva. "The Electricity and Water Services Regulatory Institute (IRSEA) announces, with great regret...
Did Dinosaurs Roam Louisiana? The Surprising Truth About Prehistoric Life Here
K945 - Louisiana
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July 1, 2025
I keep seeing ads on TV and online for the new Jurassic Park movie Jurassic World Rebirth and randomly my brain just started thinking about dinosaurs in Louisiana. Personally, I've never heard of any fossil discoveries or anything in the state....
Namibia ready to host 2025 AUSC Region 5 Youth Games
Informante
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July 1, 2025
Maria David NAMIBIA is poised to host the 11th edition of the African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Youth Games. The games are scheduled to take place from 4 to 13 July 2025. This prestigious multi-sport event, which will also see some...
Morabeza documented the culture of Cape Verde before independence
Portugal Pulse
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June 28, 2025
The Cape Verdean music embodies a poignant sentiment, channeling unspoken emotions, unexpressed faiths, and confessions held back, as described by Djunga di Biluca, founder of Morabeza Records, who passed away in 2023. These words appeared on the...
Malawi Under-20 set to burn South Africa Under -20 for Region 5 title
The Times Group Malawi
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July 13, 2025
By Peter Fote in Windhoek, Namibia: Malawi men’s Under-20 National Football Team will this afternoon be looking to break a 17- year drought when facing South Africa’s Amajita in the final of the African Union Sports Council (Ausc) Region 5 Games...
Trump Creeps Everyone Out By Complimenting Female Reporter In Awkward Clip
HuffPost
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June 30, 2025
President Donald Trump has given social media users the ick after he showered a female reporter with praise in a viral video. The bizarre moment happened during a peace signing ceremony between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda...
Junior Flames Storm COSAFA U-20 Final as Senior Team Climbs FIFA Rankings
Nyasa Times
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July 13, 2025
The Malawi Under-20 National Football Team has reached the final of the COSAFA U-20 Championship currently underway in Namibia, after a thrilling 2-1 semi-final victory over Zambia on Friday. Mwisho Mhango gave the Junior Flames a dream start with...
The Chawinga sisters won't be at WAFCON, but other NWSL stars will be worth watching
ESPN Africa
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June 30, 2025
Leonard Solms CloseJack of all sporting trades. Author of my 11-year-old self's fantasy story about his road to FIFA World Cup glory. Perfecting the art of writing about people who do what I said I was going to do. Jun 30, 2025, 07:37 AM The...
‘Cops Cycling for Survivors’ brings annual bike ride honoring officers killed in the line of duty to 21Country
WPTA - Indiana
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July 12, 2025
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - The 24th annual ‘Cops Cycling for Survivors’ bicycle ride began on Monday in Indianapolis and has recently made its way into 21Country. The event brings active and retired members of law enforcement as well as their...
Robert Weitzel (1968 – 2025)
The Village Reporter - Ohio
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June 29, 2025
(Former Member Of Bryan Eagles) Robert K. Weitzel, age 57, of Montpelier, passed away Thursday, June 26, 2025 at Parkview Bryan Hospital. Bob worked as a laborer at several area companies including Sauder Manufacturing, Ohio Art and Service...
I’ve been through the fire, and emerged, not as charcoal but as diamond- Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba
Zambian Observer
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June 29, 2025
Letter from the United States By Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba Today I woke up to calls and messages warning me that the UPND Media team, its online rogue media and its 23 Spokespersons will “finish” and “destroy” me. I laughed. My crime? Well it’s many...
MultiChoice Talent Factory - Refining talent
Business Ghana
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Africa’s greatest global competitive advantage may lie in the artistic abilities of its people. To turn this untapped resource into real human benefits and economic growth, the continent must develop its talented young people. In doing so, the...
Queen of Katwe's gambit still in play for Uganda's slum chess players
BBC
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Wycliffe MuiaBBC News, Kampala ShareSave For more than two decades, Robert Katende has been getting children in Katwe to take chess seriously A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of...
Judge orders no bond for jail escapee Antoine Massey
WWL - Louisiana
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June 28, 2025
Massey, who escaped from the Orleans Justice Center on May 16, appeared via Zoom from Angola prison Saturday on an aggravated escape charge. Prosecutors called him “the walking definition of a flight risk,” citing the cost of the large-scale...
Jonker’s last hurrah calls on daring Dutch to upset Bonadei’s high-flying France
The Guardian
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July 12, 2025
Convention plays a big part in football. There’s the convention that settled starting XIs help winning teams build momentum, the convention that experience really matters at major tournaments and, perhaps above all, the convention that head...
Kaizer Chiefs ‘will learn’ from heavy defeat to Utrecht
The Citizen (South Africa)
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July 12, 2025
Following their big loss to Utrecht, Kaizer Chiefs midfielder George Matlou believes Amakhosi will learn from these kinds of games and get better. This comes after Chiefs suffered a 4-0 loss to Utrecht in a preseason friendly in the Netherlands....
How Did Football Buddies From Utah Join a Coup in the Congo?
New York Mag
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July 11, 2025
Surveillance footage of Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson at a shooting range in West Jordan, Utah. Photo: United States District Court for the District of Utah This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation...
Louisiana jailbreak update: 9th escapee captured, only one still at large
Daijiworld News
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Daijiworld Media Network - New Orleans New Orleans, Jun 28: One of the final two escapees from a dramatic jailbreak at the New Orleans Justice Center has been captured, Louisiana authorities confirmed on Friday. Antoine Massey, 32, was arrested...
No decision made on Laker gymnastics
The Herald Republican - Indiana
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LAGRANGE — A proposal to dissolve the Lakeland gymnastics program drew a large crowd of current and former Laker gymnasts, parents and former coaches to the board’s July meeting Wednesday night. And after about 90 minutes of spirited but civil...