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Last updated: 1 hour ago Firefighters say they have put out a fire that broke out in Tehran’s grand bazaar in the morning on Saturday. The fire at the shoemakers’ section of the bazaar damaged some 25 shops, according to Tehran’s fire department. “What we were seeing with our own eyes was 20 to 25 shops burning, maybe a couple… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Firefighters say they have put out a fire that broke out in Tehran’s grand bazaar in the morning on Saturday. The fire at the shoemakers’ section of the bazaar damaged some 25 shops, according to Tehran’s fire department. “What we were seeing with our own eyes was 20 to 25 shops burning, maybe a couple… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Firefighters say they have put out a fire that broke out in Tehran’s grand bazaar in the morning on Saturday. The fire at the shoemakers’ section of the bazaar damaged some 25 shops, according to Tehran’s fire department. “What we were seeing with our own eyes was 20 to 25 shops burning, maybe a couple… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago An unusually powerful eruption of Sicily’s Mt. Etna volcano created a volcanic storm on Thursday night with bolts of lightning streaking the sky above the crater. Boris Behnke, a volcanologist with Italy’s National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, told the Associated Press that volcanic storms were rare phenomena that happen in particularly violent eruptions or… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago An unusually powerful eruption of Sicily’s Mt. Etna volcano created a volcanic storm on Thursday night with bolts of lightning streaking the sky above the crater. Boris Behnke, a volcanologist with Italy’s National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, told the Associated Press that volcanic storms were rare phenomena that happen in particularly violent eruptions or… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago An unusually powerful eruption of Sicily’s Mt. Etna volcano created a volcanic storm on Thursday night with bolts of lightning streaking the sky above the crater. Boris Behnke, a volcanologist with Italy’s National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, told the Associated Press that volcanic storms were rare phenomena that happen in particularly violent eruptions or… Read More

A popular Ghanaian social activist who has led protests against President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government has been arrested after making comments on social media about plotting a coup, the police said on Saturday. Oliver Barker-Vormawor, leader of the pressure group #FixTheCountry, which has championed protests in the West African country over economic hardships among other issues, was detained on his arrival… Read More

South Africa is a central hub for human trafficking with girls as young as 10 years old being trafficked. This is according to the US Department of State 2021 Trafficking in Persons report. To curb human trafficking, South Africa is creating advanced technologies. South Africa’s Council for Scientific Industrial Research is developing an infant biometric tracking system that could curb… Read More

South Africa’s efforts to produce vaccines are key to helping the African continent become more self-sufficient in inoculations to combat COVID-19 and many other diseases, the visiting chief of the World Health Organization said Friday. WHO director-general Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus was visiting Cape Town to view three facilities that are starting work to manufacture vaccines. “More than half of the… Read More

Denmark will partially suspend its development aid to Mali after the forced departure of its soldiers from the country, as well as to Burkina Faso due to the military coup, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. The decision was made by Minister for Development Flemming Møller Mortensen. “We are putting the whole plan on hold and making a clear review,” he… Read More