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North Korea says it is closing some diplomatic missions around the world

Experts point to economic difficulties from prolonged international sanctions, but the closures may signal a possible change in North Korea's foreign policy that is more focused on Moscow and Beijing.

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First Thing: Israeli air force says it has struck 600 targets in a day

Military strikes include area near Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. Plus, Matthew Perry’s troubled life and foreshadowed death

The Guardian - UK

‘Bloodiest prison in the US’: children detained in Louisiana’s Angola prison allege abuses

Juvenile prisoners were routinely punished by fellow inmates at the ‘Alcatraz of the south’, according to a new lawsuit

The Guardian - US

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Namibia and Angola’s remote Ovahimba mountains reveal a haven for unique plants – new survey

The Kaokoveld region, covering north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, is one of the remotest areas in southern Africa. Although it’s extremely dry, it is a centre of species endemism: many species occur only there and nowhere else on earth.

The Conversation

How Angola is using space technology to meet development goals

The Angolan space agency, which was established in 2013, is using space technology to map United Nations' sutainable development goals across the country.

Radio France Internationale

At the edge of the UN security perimeter, those with causes (and signs) try to be heard

The U.N. General Assembly, the most inherently international event, is also the most American

The Independent UK

Louisiana prisoner suit claims they’re forced to endure dangerous conditions at Angola prison farm

Prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary have filed a class-action lawsuit over conditions at the prison's farm

The Independent UK

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Louisiana moves juveniles from adult penitentiary but continues to fight court order to do so

Louisiana officials say they have moved juvenile detainees from a former death row building at the state's sprawling adult penitentiary

The Independent UK

DJ Znobia: Inventor Vol 1 review – raw minimalist kuduro to shake the dancefloor

The Angolan producer arrived at his own version of the dance style kuduro after adding layered synths to folk rhythms, and these tracks show his lo-fi ingenuity

The Guardian - UK

Louisiana ordered to remove teens from ‘intolerable’ conditions at state prison

Children, some as young as 15, incarcerated at notorious Angola prison, which has reputation for brutality and violence

The Guardian - US

Former U.S. Intel Accuse Havana Of Luring Cuban Youth To Fight For Russia

Cuba has acknowledged that there are "human trafficking operations for military recruitment purposes" involving Cubans in Russia.

Zenger

Former U.S. Intel Accuse Havana Of Luring Cuban Youths To Fight For Russia

Cuba has acknowledged that there are "human trafficking operations for military recruitment purposes" involving Cubans in Russia.

Zenger

Judge orders Louisiana to remove incarcerated youths from the state's maximum-security adult prison

A federal judge has ruled that incarcerated youths be removed from a temporary lockup at a former death row building in Louisiana’s adult maximum-security prison by Sept. 15

The Independent UK

The greatest street in Angola: Kim Praise’s best photograph

‘I decided to get above street level and show the mix of colours: the oranges of the market set against the reds of the roofs. It is my country at its very best’

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The Conversation

Ukraine war: after the shooting stops landmines will keep killing -- as we've seen in too many countries

By the time the shooting stops the UN predicts that Ukraine will be one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world. Deaths caused by landmines and other unexploded ordnance are now common. According to Ukraine’s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, in March alone, “724 people have been blown up on…

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FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 live stream: how to watch matches for free online

Here's how to watch 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 live streams online, from anywhere and potentially for free. Basketball World Cup schedule, tip-off times and more.

The Conversation

China’s Africa strategy is shifting from extraction to investment – driven from the industry-rich Hunan region

China experienced a massive economic boom in the 1990s and 2000s which increased its demand for resource imports, like oil, from Africa. This led to a model of development finance in which China funded infrastructure in African countries in return for access to resources. This approach became known as the…

Guitar World

His underrated guitar playing influenced everyone from the Beatles to Nirvana – here's how Lead Belly used his 12-string skills to play his way out of prison

Huddie Ledbetter's magnetic musical talent got him an early release from a hellish Texas prison – yet his full impact on 20th century guitar playing is often overlooked

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Amateur videos show Turkish police violence against African migrants

Amateur videos sent to the FRANCE 24 Observers team show police in Turkey stopping and questioning African migrants as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. The videos, sent in by migrants from Senegal, Cameroon, Guinea and Angola, show officers shouting at the migrants and in some cases using physical…

The Independent UK

Children held at former Death Row prison in 133F heat with no AC and limited water in Louisiana

The state began moving children as young as 14 to the facility last year

The Independent UK

Louisiana youths held at adult prison's old death row suffer heat, isolation, advocates say

Advocates for juveniles held in a former death row building at a Louisiana prison for adults say the youths are suffering through dangerous heat and psychologically damaging isolation in their prison cells with little or no mental health care, inadequate schooling and foul water

Evening Standard

‘Hardest Geezer’ is trying to run the entire length of Africa

West Sussex’s Russell Cook to become first person to run the length of the continent

The Guardian - US

Isolated, no air conditioning: Louisiana youth in solitary cells amid heat, ACLU says

The children allege they are given only few minutes outside their cells, with some even being maced

The Week

Native giraffes are once again roaming in Angola

Native giraffes are once again roaming a national park in Angola, decades after they were driven to extinction in the country, most likely by its long-running civil war. Fourteen young giraffes were transported to Iona National Park from a game reserve in Namibia last week. Some Angolan giraffes, which are a subspecies…

The Conversation

Painted messages in Angola's abandoned liberation army camps offer a rare historical record

In Angola’s Malanje province, the buildings of Camalundu stand abandoned amid open fields. On one of them, the fragmented words “IAN NGOYI” recall a figure little-known in Angola but familiar to South Africans: anti-apartheid leader Lilian Ngoyi.

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