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Last updated: 11 hours ago The Taliban takeover may have plunged Afghanistan into uncertainty and economic pain, but arms dealer Khan Mohammad is making the most of it. Sandwiched between a pharmacy and a general store, his shop in the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province — the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban — is flush with fresh inventory. Camouflage… Read More

Guinea’s special forces claimed Sunday to have captured President Alpha Conde and “dissolved” the country’s institutions, in a video sent to an AFP correspondent, while the defense ministry said it had repelled their attack on the presidency. “We have decided after having taken the president, who is currently with us (…) to dissolve the current constitution, to dissolve the institutions;… Read More

Last updated: 7 hours ago “The spirit of the mullet is self-deprecating, anti-conformism, and a freedom from codes”: for one day, the village of Cheniers, in France’s central Creuse region, is the European capital of the mullet, a daring hair style – short hair on top and long behind – popularised in the 1980s. For the organizers of the second… Read More

Former President Jacob Zuma was released from prison on on medical parole, Department of Correctional Services on Sunday. Zuma has been incarcerated since July after he was found guilty of contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of the Constitutional Court to honour a summons to appear before the state capture commission. The statement states they were… Read More

Last updated: 32 minutes ago The final act of the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics came Sunday, almost eight years to the day after the Japanese capital was awarded the Games. The Paralympics ended a 13-day run in a colorful, circus-like ceremony at the National Stadium overseen by Crown Prince Akishino, the brother of Emperor Naruhito. The Olympics closed almost… Read More

The West African regional bloc’s envoy for Mali was due in Bamako Sunday; amid growing doubts about whether the ruling junta will respect an African Union and ECOWAS deadline to hand over power to civilians next February. Good luck Jonathan is expected to meet with the local local Transition Monitoring Committee, the civil society and political parties. According to his… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago The World Custard Pie Championships returned on Saturday. The rules for this are as follows: Teams are made up of four people each wearing fancy dress. They stand behind a table and throw five pies with their left hand at their opponents who are eight feet away. As for the scoring, a direct hit in… Read More

Two-time Olympic champion Sifan Hassan ran the fifth-fastest women’s mile ever, clocking four minutes, 14.74 seconds at the Memorial Van Damme meeting in Brussels on Friday. In yet another tilt at his own pole vault world record, Olympic champion Armand Duplantis came up short in three attempts to clear 6.19 metres. The Swede took the win in a meeting record… Read More

Tunisia’s hopes of successfully defending their AfroBasket title remain very much alive after Dirk Bauermann’s side secured a 75-65 victory over Cape Verde in the first of Saturday’s semi-finals at the Kigali Arena in the Rwandan capital. Cape Verde got off to a fast start and led 12-2 in the opening quarter, but Tunisia fought back to lead 16-14 by… Read More

Volunteer fighters in Ethiopia are responding to a call by regional authorities in the Amhara region to take up arms against the forces of neighboring Tigray. Ethiopia’s federal government has been urging regional administrations to prepare to defend themselves as the Tigray conflict spreads. In the city of Gondar in Amhara, a school – closed for the holidays – served… Read More