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Reuters:UN Security Council asks Taliban to allow Afghan girls to attend school

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Views: 0 © Reuters/ZOHRA BENSEMRA The Wider Image: Dreams on hold: Afghan girls and women are desperate to get back to class (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council has expressed deep concern over a decision by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to deny girls access to high school education and called on the group to reopen schools […]

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The Washington Post:Younger women now earn at least as much or more than men in 22 metro areas

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Views: 0 © Bonnie Cash/Bloomberg Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a White House Equal Pay Day Summit earlier this month in Washington. Younger women have closed the pay gap or are outpacing their male counterparts in nearly two dozen U.S. metropolitan areas, according to research published Monday, as gains in higher education and more transparency

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Reuters :UK royals gather to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth’s late husband

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Views: 0 LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth may make her first public appearance in five months on Tuesday when the royal family and other dignitaries gather for a memorial service in honour of her husband Prince Philip, who died last year. © Reuters/POOL FILE PHOTO: Funeral of Britain’s Prince Philip in Windsor Philip, the Duke

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Reuters:N.Korea’s Kim calls for ramping up ideological campaigns amid ‘worst difficulties’

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Views: 0 SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for a propaganda campaign to increase popular support for the country’s ideology of self-reliance amid “the worst difficulties,” state media KCNA said on Tuesday. © Reuters/KCNA 2nd Conference of Secretaries of Primary Committees of the WPK Kim sent a letter to ruling Workers’

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The Washington Post:Ukraine claws back territory in country’s north ahead of talks in Istanbu

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Views: 0 Ukrainian forces have reclaimed control of a few small fronts in the country’s north, officials said Monday, as Russia appears to be directing its fiercest attacks on besieged areas in the country’s east and south, including Mariupol. © Efrem Lukatsky/AP Ukrainian soldiers in Trostyanets on Monday. As the war grinds into its second month,

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EALA Speaker says Oulanyah was a great leader

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Views: 0 Posted on: 28 Mar 2022 The Speaker of East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), Rt Hon. Martin Ngoga has eulogized former Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah, describing him as, ‘a great leader who had a great potential’. “At the age of 56, his political potential as a citizen and a leader has been cut short but

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Associated Press:N. Korea’s Kim vows to develop more powerful means of attack

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Views: 0 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to develop more powerful means of attack, days after the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missile launch in more than four years. The statement suggests North Korea might perform additional launches or even test a nuclear device soon as

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Reuters Putin, Zelenskiy meeting needed once sides closer on key issues- Russia’s Lavrov

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Views: 0 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy should happen once the two sides are closer to agreeing on key issues. Speaking to Serbian media outlets, Lavrov added that any meeting between Putin and Zelenskiy to exchange views

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INVESTMENT COMMITMENTS REVEAL A DIVERSE AND TRANSFORMING ECONOMY

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Views: 0 Dear Fellow South African, Last week we held our fourth South Africa Investment Conference as part of our ambitious drive to raise R1.2 trillion in new investment over five years. The value of the investment commitments made at the conference was R332 billion, bringing the total value of commitments to date to R1.14

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President Kenyatta commissions Kshs 609 million Jamhuri Sports complex

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Views: 0 NAIROBI, 25th March 2022 (PSCU) – President Uhuru Kenyatta today commissioned the Jamhuri Sports Complex, a facility of international standards constructed by the National Government at a cost of Kshs 609 million. The 19-hectare complex, which is one of the President’s legacy projects, comprises three football pitches, one rugby pitch,

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