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TRAVELLERS RETURNING from Trinidad and Tobago will have to quarantine for 14 days if they... The post COVID-19: Trinidad and Tobago removed from UK's safe travel list appeared first on Voice Online.
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Kenya: Two Medics Among Several Kenyans Stranded in India
Two Kenyan doctor, who had travelled to India to visit their family, are stranded after they were forced to give up their seats to the sick on a Kenya Airways flight last
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Mauritius: Government Steps Up Efforts to Tackle COVID-19 Pandemic, Says Attorney General
The outcomes of such proactive measures are bearing their fruits as no new COVID-19 cases have been reported for the last 18
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Idol Smuggling Thrives in Eastern Corridors of India 
An ancient idol of the Hindu deity Gauri that was seized by Indian customs officials. (Courtesy of Kolkata Customs) The eastern corridor of India has ...
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Senate Democrats seek aid for Black Americans in virus bill - African American News Today - EIN News
US News: WASHINGTON: As Senate Republicans prepare to roll out their next Covid-19 aid bill, the top Democrat said Thursday that he wants to shift $350 billion.
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Why digital taxes are the new trade war flashpoint
The two countries agreed on a truce whereby the US would back off from tariffs and France would delay collection of its digital tax to the end of 2020 to allow for renewed efforts to reach a multilateral
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PCB chief expects 2020 T20 World Cup to be postponed
LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ehsan Mani has said the logistical challenge of keeping 16 teams in a bio-secure bubble to limit the risk of COVID-19 makes staging the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia this year
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On December 2, 1859, John Brown was executed by Virginia authorities in Charles Town for his ill-fated raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry.  Soon after word of his death reached Boston, William Lloyd Garrison, the leading abolitionist in the United States at the time, gave this stirring
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Byo residents pursue independent water tests
BULAWAYO residents have engaged private laboratories to run independent tests on the city’s water after five children reportedly succumbed to diarrhoea due to contaminated water being pumped to Luveve high-density suburb by the local
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Amy Andrieux: Fulfilling Her Passion Through Working in the Arts
Amy Andrieux took an interesting road by working in media to land a dream creative job: executive director of MoCADA in New York.
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19 Black families purchase 96 acres of land to create a 'safe haven' for Black people - DefenderNetwork.com
In the face of a pandemic that has hit Black Americans harder than almost any other group, while the nation continues to confront the toxic legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, two Georgia women have come together to build a community that will be a place free of oppression, “a tight-knit community for
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Residents give council 5-day ultimatum over running water
BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA CHIVHU residents have given Chikomba Rural District Council (RDC) a five-day ultimatum to provide running water at the major market place and bus terminus following a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in the country. The residents have been demanding running water at the market
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Trump denies being briefed on Russian bounty intelligence | The Atlanta Voice
President Donald Trump on Sunday denied receiving a briefing about intelligence that Russians had tried to bribe Taliban fighters to kill US troops, as The New York Times first reported and CNN has confirmed. Trump tweeted that there have not been many attacks on US troops by Taliban fighters as
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Indian Olympic Association to review Li Ning deal amid China protests
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July 14: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Opened in Harlem on This Day in 1905
By Natelegé Whaley Photo credits: Desiree Navarro/Getty Images The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture opened in Harlem, New York, on July 14, 1905. The center is one of the leading institutions focused on the experiences of people across the African diaspora.  Before the
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Indian govt to decide fate of IPL, not cricket board - minister
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India’s sports minister today said any decision to allow the Indian Premier League to go ahead this year would be taken by the government, not the Indian cricket board, and would be based on how well the country has contained the novel
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Britain ratchets up criticism of China
LONDON (AP) - Britain's foreign secretary hinted yesterday that he may move to suspend the UK's extradition arrangements with Hong Kong, and accused Beijing of 'gross and egregious' human rights abuses against its Uighur population in China's western province of Xinjiang.
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Meet the black Republican woman trying to unseat civil rights icon John Lewis
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South Africa to trial unique three-team limited overs fixture
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Uganda: Why Virus Cases Remain High Among Truck Drivers
Of the 84 cases confirmed on Saturday by the Health ministry, 52 were truck drivers who arrived in Uganda from South Sudan through Elegu border, two arrived from Kenya via Busia and 32 were those who had been under quarantine after getting contact with the
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