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    S.Africa's first black free dive instructor turns tide on apartheid history

    Thu, 9 Sep 2021 11:05 AM

    Under apartheid, Black youth were kept out of water sports. Now, the Black Mermaid Foundation aims to get them swimming

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    U.S. congressmen call on Hilton to cut link to Xinjiang project

    Fri, 30 Jul 2021 07:39 AM

    There are concerns a Hampton by Hilton hotel was being constructed on the site of the mosque destroyed in 2018 in Xinjiang's Hotan prefecture

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    'Please show mercy': Evicted by Cambodia, ethnic Vietnamese stuck at watery border

    Fri, 2 Jul 2021 10:55 AM

    Fear mounts for the stateless Vietnamese fishing community in Cambodia as COVID-19 rages on both sides of the border

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    'No reason to celebrate': Canada Day muted as country reckons with dark colonial history

    Thu, 1 Jul 2021 16:47 PM

    Calls to scale back or cancel celebrations snowballed after almost 1,000 unmarked graves were found at former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan

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    In the U.S. South, a forestry project helps Black families keep their land

    Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:31 AM

    Southern program aims to turn around a century-long trend that saw African American families lose the vast majority of their landholdings

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    UK PM Johnson: Britain's Jews should not have to endure 'shameful racism'

    Mon, 17 May 2021 11:21 AM

    Johnson was responding in part to incidents of anti-Semitism in Britain over the weekend, as Israeli-Palestinian violence reaches its worst level in years

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    Five killed in Myanmar as troops open fire on protesters

    Wed, 7 Apr 2021 08:24 AM

    More than 580 people have been killed, according to an activist group, in the turmoil in Myanmar since a Feb. 1 coup

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    SOS call to local Indian paper saves 81 Rohingya at sea, but no country says welcome

    Thu, 4 Mar 2021 08:34 AM

    The Rohingya are a minority group, most of whom are denied citizenship by Myanmar, which considers them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh

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    Teed off: As COVID fuels S. Africa's housing crisis, golf courses feel the heat

    Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:32 PM

    Housing uncertainty in South Africa is triggering activists to hone in on the country's 450 golf courses

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    Stolen but not silent: Indigenous Australians protest national celebrations

    Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:44 AM

    Holding national celebrations on the highly sensitive date reinforces a legacy of mistreatment of Indigenous people, Aboriginal activists say