Photos of the Week: Fire Tunnel, Golden Dog, Santa Mask

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2020/11/photos-week‑1/a01_1229523513‑1/lead_960.jpgDanc­ing on Bolivia’s Salar de Uyu­ni, cur­few mea­sures in Bucharest, coro­n­avirus test­ing in the U.K., monowheel broom­sticks in Brazil, a marigold har­vest in Kath­man­du, cel­e­bra­tions of Joe Biden’s pres­i­den­tial win, a press con­fer­ence at Philadelphia’s Four Sea­sons Total Land­scap­ing, Veterans’

Jerry Rawlings, From Coup-Plotter to Ghanaian Statesman, Dies at 73

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/11/13/obituaries/12Rawlings/12Rawlings-moth.jpgJer­ry Rawl­ings, a for­mer Ghana­ian Air Force offi­cer who led two mil­i­tary coups before steer­ing his coun­try toward democ­ra­cy with an author­i­tar­i­an hand, died on Thurs­day in the nation’s cap­i­tal, Accra. He was 73. Mr. Rawl­ings died in a hos­pi­tal “after

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Coronavirus: What’s happening to the numbers in Africa?

image copy­rightReuters There’s been a slight increase in Covid-19 infec­tions in Africa over the past few weeks, accord­ing to the lat­est infor­ma­tion. The num­ber of dai­ly new cas­es has been ris­ing grad­u­al­ly after declin­ing since mid-July, accord­ing to the Africa Cen­tres for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion (CDC) and the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO). But in…

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