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Rwanda has hosted the NBA’s Basketball Africa League since 2021 and, in 2023, it was the stage for the annual Fifa Congress. Last year, it became the first African nation to host cycling’s Road World Championships.

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For Saudi Arabia to succeed, it “needs to welcome global talent, investment and tourists,” said The Washington Post. But “you can’t do that when people can’t land in your country safely,” said Kristen Smith Diwan from the Arab Gulf States Institute.

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The government’s vaccine damage payment scheme is designed to provide a one-off, tax-free sum of £120,000 to those who can prove they became severely disabled as a result of taking a vaccine for a number of diseases, including Covid-19.

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Pharmaceutical companies that profit from natural elements were asked to contribute towards conservation.

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Originating among anarchist and radical left activists in West Germany in the 1980s, the Black Bloc are “temporary groups formed for a specific protest” that “operate without hierarchy”, said Canadian professor Francis Dupuis-Déri on The Conversation.

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The pandemic forced 150 operating cinemas to close permanently but there are still many unique venues to explore.

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For a man of energy and apparently robust health, Leo “suddenly faces the same sense of urgency and questions of longevity that had hung over Francis”, said The New York Times’ Rome correspondent, Motoko Rich.

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“For decades,” urban life has been a “defining feature of the Chinese economic miracle,” said the Los Angeles Times. But “declining job prospects in the cities” and government efforts to “lift up rural areas” have prompted a shift in recent years.

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This “sorry episode” shows “just how dependent Ukraine still is on the US”, said The Telegraph’s editorial board. For all the “strong words” of Europe’s leaders, “there remains a gulf” between their “rhetoric and the reality” of their support.

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Jackdaw “will start to supply gas to British homes and businesses from as early as the end of this month”, Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh told the BBC

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More than 43,000 people in care homes were recorded to have died with Covid between March 2020 and July 2022. Last year, a senior civil servant told the inquiry it amounted to “generational slaughter”, said the BBC.

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Divorce is now “more accessible than it ever has been”, Lisa Pepper, a divorce lawyer at Osbornes Law, told The Guardian, yet “couples are staying together”.

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A “growing cohort” of time-poor travellers are treating their holidays as an “investment” in themselves, said Bloomberg.

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Traditionally, Anjouan was best known for its exports of ylang-ylang oil and vanilla. But it has since “stumbled” into the “dangerous but highly lucrative” industry of underground online gambling, said The Guardian.

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A growing number of European leaders worry that Musk's products have undue influence in Ukraine’s theatre of war — and across the continent as a whole.

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The government is going to announce more “everyday fixes” to ease financial pressures for Britons and show that it can “rectify some of life’s little nuisances without needing to bust the budget”, said Politico.

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Earth has been rotating unusually rapidly for a decade and there’s a chance we’d soon need the first-ever negative leap second – in other words, deleting a second.

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“The French passion for protest is legendary in Europe,” said Katya Adler, the BBC’s Europe editor. But six months out from an “already fraught” election, these demonstrations are becoming highly politicised.

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