The U.S. Army’s restrictions on protective hairstyles is to be loosened to promote gender and racial inclusion.
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BRAZIL: Amazon Rainforest Plots Listed For Sale On Facebook
Parts of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest are being illegally sold on Facebook, the BBC has discovered. The protected areas include national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples.
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Dolly Parton Rejects Plan To Erect Statue Of Her At Tennessee Capitol
Country music legend Dolly Parton has asked Tennessee lawmakers to withdraw a bill to erect a statue in her honour on Capitol grounds in Nashville.
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AFRICA: WHO Deliver First Doses Of Covax Vaccine-sharing scheme To Ghana
With the delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Ghana, the west African country becomes the first to receive coronavirus vaccines through the World Health Organisation Covax vaccine-sharing initiative.
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TANZANIA: COVID-Denying President Finally Admit Surging Cases After WHO Pressure
After earlier calling on citizens to embark on a three days of prayer to defeat what he termed ‘unnamed respiratory diseases’, Covid denying Tanzania’s president is finally acknowledging that his country has a coronavirus problem.
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CONGO: Italy’s Ambassador Killed In Armed Group Attack On UN Convoy
Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio have been killed alongside his bodyguard and a driver from the UN World Food Programme following an attack on their convoy in the east of the country.
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UK: Justice Secretary Says ‘No jab, no job’ Policies May Be Legal For New Employees
Justice secretary, Robert Buckland has said it may be legal for companies to make Covid vaccine a condition of employment at least for new employees but unlikely employers make it compulsory for existing workers under their current contracts.
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CANADA: MPs Back Fast Tracked Residency For Guinean Student In Wrongful Arrest
A Guinean graduate student in Canada wrongly arrested and detained for six days may have his permeant residency fast tracked following support parliament.
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SOUTH AFRICA: President Ramaphosa Receives First Covid Vaccine Jab In The Continent
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has received a coronavirus vaccine as the country begins the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson jabs.
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JAPAN: Ruling Party Offer Women A Sit In Cabinet Meetings To Be Seen But Not Heard
A week after Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizing committee, resigned in disgrace after complaining that women talk too much at meetings, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has propose allowing five female lawmakers to join the party’s all-male board meetings as observers only.
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