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South African football star held up at gunpoint
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 9 minutes agoPortia Modise, 41, made her international debut aged 16 [Getty Images] Portia Modise, the former captain of South Africa's football team, has appealed to...
Dengue: A virus by any other name. Why scientists are renaming viruses
BBC News· 10 minutes agoNow scientists are trying to bring order to the chaos of virus naming. In the final decades of the...
Top U.S. officials arrive in Cairo for talks on Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal
Axios· 26 minutes agoCIA director Bill Burns and President Biden's top Middle East adviser Brett McGurk are meeting with...
Liberian president cuts his salary by 40%
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 26 minutes agoGovernment salaries have been under intense scrutiny recently as Liberians complain about the rising cost of living. Around one in five people live on...
Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise – DW – 07/08/2024
Deutsche Welle· 28 minutes agoThe significance of the Red Sea shipping route for global trade is enormous. The attacks have come in the wake of Israel's war against the Hamas militant group in Gaza following its massacre ...
Final horse racing weekend at Aqueduct tees up Saratoga meeting
United Press International via Yahoo Canada Sports· 48 minutes agoThere was even a little stir in the 2-year-old ranks, thanks to Wesley Ward. On the global scene, we...
Warren Gatland says Wales have got to stay ‘in the arm-wrestle’ amid losing run
PA Media: Sport via Yahoo Canada Sports· 52 minutes agoThis time around, Wales have lost to Argentina, Scotland, England, Ireland, France, Italy, South ...
Payout for widow of Pakistani journalist killed by Kenyan police
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 53 minutes agoJournalists. Thousands of people attended Arshad Sharif's funeral in Islamabad two years ago...
Can we reach climate goals despite new record heat? – DW – 07/08/2024
Deutsche Welle· 55 minutes agoJune 2024 was the warmest on record with temperatures 1.5 Celcius (2.7 Fahrenheit) hotter than...
Gaza destruction likely helped push Hamas to soften cease-fire demands, several officials say
Detroit News· 1 hour agoSeveral officials in the Middle East and the U.S. believe the level of devastation in the Gaza Strip...
