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"It’s over": South African shop owner counts cost of looting

07/15/2021 05/23/2022 / AFP UK, UK

Soweto (South Africa) (AFP) – Walking among the remains of her shop, which was looted during unrest in South Africa, Thandi Johnson says that she has “nothing left”, despite troops being deployed in an attempt to prevent the destruction caused by thousands on the streets. The unrest erupted on the 9th of July after ex-president Jacob Zuma started serving a 15-month term for snubbing a probe into the corruption that stained his nine years in power.

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he has been suffering from hiccups for a week

07/15/2021 05/23/2022 / AFP UK, UK

Brasília (AFP) – In a livestream from 8 July, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro apologises for hiccups that he says he’s had for a week. Bolsonaro has now been hospitalised to investigate the causes of the hiccups, which he said started after dental surgery on the 3 July.

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Lost Michelangelo bridge floats over Rome

07/15/2021 05/23/2022 / AFP UK, UK

Rome (AFP) – Michelangelo dreamed it, Olivier Grossetête did it: the artist from Marseille has created a cardboard bridge over the Tiber River in Rome to link the gardens of the Villa Farnesina to the Farnese Palace, a splendid Renaissance building that houses the French embassy. The 18-metre structure is suspended by three helium-filled balloons measuring six metres in diameter.

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Pakistani fishermen join fight to save endangered dolphin

07/15/2021 05/23/2022 / AFP UK, UK

Sukkur (Pakistan) (AFP) – Freshwater dolphins are flourishing in a stretch of Pakistan’s main river after a helping hand from fishermen mobilised to defend a rare species driven to near-extinction.

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Desperate search for oxygen in Myanmar as latest Covid wave hits

07/15/2021 05/23/2022 / AFP UK, UK

Yangon (AFP) – Residents across Myanmar’s biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new coronavirus wave crashes over the coup-wracked country.

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Bolsonaro hospitalised in Sao Paulo with 'intestinal obstruction'

07/15/2021 07/19/2021 / Newstag UK, UK

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is admitted to the Vila Nova Star private hospital in Sao Paulo, where it will be determined whether he requires emergency surgery for an "intestinal obstruction."

Pakistani fishermen join fight to save endangered dolphin

07/15/2021 07/19/2021 / Newstag UK, UK

Sukkur (Pakistan) (AFP) – Freshwater dolphins are flourishing in a stretch of Pakistan's main river after a helping hand from fishermen mobilised to defend a rare species driven to near-extinction.

Britney Spears allowed to hire her own attorney in conservatorship battle

07/15/2021 07/19/2021 / Newstag UK, UK

Britney Spears will be allowed hire her own attorney to represent her in her ongoing conservatorship battle after her request to do so was approved in a hearing. CNN's Stephanie Elam reports.

Desperate search for oxygen in Myanmar as latest Covid wave hits

07/15/2021 07/19/2021 / Newstag UK, UK

Residents across Myanmar's biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new coronavirus wave crashes over the coup-wracked country.

USA: 'Free Britney' supporters come together in Washington to condemn popstar's conservatorship

07/15/2021 07/19/2021 / Newstag UK, UK

Britney Spears supporters gathered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.The group rallied as Spears' conservatorship hearing was about to begin in LA. Protesters from all walks of life rallied not only to support the celebrity but also to draw the attention to the issue of guardianship and conservatorship.

Bolsonaro posts picture of himself from hospital bed

07/15/2021 07/19/2021 / Newstag UK, UK

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been transferred to a hospital in Sao Paolo, Brazil, after an intestinal obstruction was found by his physician. He took to Twitter and said the current medical condition was the consequence of a failed assassination attempt in 2018.

VOA Persian TV Host Target of Foiled Iranian Kidnap Plot

07/15/2021 07/19/2021 / Newstag UK, UK

Masih Alinejad, a campaigner for women's rights in Iran and host of a VOA Persian TV program, shares how U.S. federal agents saved her from an elaborate kidnapping attempt by Iranian authorities. Jesusemen Oni has more.