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The Department of Basic Education is in continued engagement with various stakeholders on the state of readiness for schools to resume from 1 June.Minister Angie Motshekga was expected to give an update on preparations for the reopening schools on Monday, but ongoing engagements resulted in another postponement to Tuesday.The department is mapping ways to ensure…
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2020-05-18 13:30 In the past 50 days of lockdown, those incidents (of police brutality) represent a tiny fraction of my personal dealings with hundreds of other police. And their behaviour has told a vividly different story.The policeman grabbed the journalist's nipple. Squeezed hard. And twisted painfully. The same policeman elbowed another journalist in the throat.  It was…
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Associated Press Published 6:25 a.m. ET May 18, 2020 | Updated 7:23 a.m. ET May 18, 2020CLOSE Florida is making plans to deal with sheltering and evacuations if COVID-19 lingers into the upcoming hurricane season. AccuweatherMIAMI — Life-threatening surf and rip currents will spread along U.S. East coast beaches in the days ahead as Tropical…
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A judge has rejected the request of convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli to be let out of prison to research a coronavirus treatment, noting that probation officials viewed that claim as the type of “delusional self-aggrandizing behavior” that led to his conviction.U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said in a nine-page ruling Saturday that the man…
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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins sparred with President Trump on Sunday for the second time in a week, this time on Twitter, after the president called her a “CNN Faker” over video showing her removing her mask while inside the White House briefing room.Trump…
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While many U.S. national parks have temporarily closed to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19, one remote national park in Hawaii must remain operational—for its residents, not for visitors. Kalaupapa National Historical Park sits on a secluded peninsula, separated from the rest of the island of Molokai by a two-thousand-foot-tall wall of cliffs. Unlike other…
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