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Zanele Muholi: Celebrating South Africa’s black LGBTQIA+ community

BBC NewsBy External SourceDecember 1, 2020Leave a comment

share­Sharen­o­close­Share pagelinkCopy link­About sharingim­age copy­rightZanele Muholi“I am re-writ­ing a black, queer and trans visu­al his­to­ry of South Africa for the world to know of our exis­tence, resis­tance and per­sis­tence,” says Zanele Muholi.

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The New ‘Nigerian Princes’ of hacking?

BBC NewsBy External SourceDecember 1, 2020Leave a comment

BEC or Busi­ness Email Com­pro­mise hack­ing is one of the most com­mon types of cyber-attack, which the FBI says costs more than £6 bil­lion a year — and experts say Nige­ria is its epi­cen­tre. Cyber reporter Joe Tidy speaks with

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Introduction: An African Adventure As The World Shut Down

Miscellaneous FeedBy External SourceDecember 1, 2020Leave a comment

As the world began shut­ting down in March, I found myself in Accra, Ghana. While I con­sid­ered abort­ing the remain­der of my trip and head­ing direct­ly home, I opt­ed to remain for a cou­ple extra days and enjoyed an

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Delta Blames COVID-19 For Thanksgiving Cancellations; Pilot Union Offers Counter-Narrative

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Delta Air Lines is plac­ing the blame for its 600+ hol­i­day flight can­cel­la­tions square­ly on COVID-19. Mean­while, the pilot union rep­re­sent­ing Delta pilots is offer­ing a more nuanced expla­na­tion. In This Post: Delta Blames COVID-19 For

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2020 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar

The Atlantic InternationalBy External SourceDecember 1, 2020Leave a comment

It is time, once again, for one of my favorite hol­i­day tra­di­tions: the 13th annu­al Hub­ble Space Tele­scope Advent Cal­en­dar. Every day until Fri­day, Decem­ber 25, this page will present one new incred­i­ble image of our uni­verse from NASA’s

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Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Eritrea refugees in Ethiopia run out of food, UN says

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share­Sharen­o­close­Share pagelinkCopy link­About sharingim­age copy­rightAF­PT­hou­sands of Eritre­an refugees in Ethiopi­a’s con­flict-hit north­ern region of Tigray have run out of food, the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, has said. It appealed for urgent

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British Airways Searches For “Classy, But Very Naughty” Flight Attendant Who Inducts Passengers Into Mile High Club

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A mys­te­ri­ous air host­ess who promis­es pruri­ent “in-flight enter­tain­ment” in exchange for prop­er con­sid­er­a­tion has been forced to move under­ground after her gig went viral online. I tend to ques­tion whether she is real in the first place. British

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Covid-19 vaccines face a varied misinformation movement online

Journalism.orgBy External SourceDecember 1, 2020Leave a comment

Decem­ber 1, 2020 Covid-19 vac­cines face a var­ied mis­in­for­ma­tion move­ment online This sto­ry, plus Face­book News to launch in the U.K., a look at what is both gained and lost when news­rooms close their offices for good, and

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What we have learnt from the latest Afrobasket 2021 qualifiers

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The lat­est round of qual­i­fiers for Afrobas­ket 2021, the con­ti­nen­t’s bas­ket­ball cham­pi­onship, con­clud­ed over the week­end with events in Rwan­da and Egypt.BBC Sport Africa’a Janine Antho­ny looks at what we have learnt from the

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Rejoice? World Of Hyatt Reduces 2021 Elite Requirements

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I’ve gyrat­ed between a spec­trum of emo­tions when it comes the announce­ment from Hyatt yes­ter­day that it would reduce the thresh­olds to earn elite sta­tus in 2021. But I’ve come to peace with it…what else am I going to do?

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