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Visitors at the Nampo agricultural fair, one of the largest in the southern hemisphere, sit in there shade near Bothaville, South Africa, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) 

Both white and Black farmers and even conservative white Afrikaner groups deny the Trump administration’s “genocide” and land seizure claims that led the U.S. to cut all financial aid to South Africa. Farmers agree that violent crime is a problem, but for everyone.

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Pope Francis has died at age 88. The first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor and marginalised. Criticised by conservatives for speaking out on capitalism and climate change, the Argentine-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio embraced refugees and the downtrodden and upset conservatives gwith his outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics. Bells tolled in church towers across Rome on Monday, and in the evening the Vatican began a Rosary prayer in St. Peter’s Square in its first public commemoration.

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Netanyahu called it “the only viable plan to enable a different future” for the region. 

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Ghana recently granted citizenship to 524 people from the Black diaspora, and most were Black Americans. The joy that people feel in finding connections that were broken long ago is palpable. 

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American cemetery in Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Brazil (Mario Tama/Getty Images) 

In November 2024, the Fraternity of American Descendants announced plans to rebrand and relaunch its flagship festival, likely for April 2025. The Confederate Festival will now be called “Festa dos Americanos” – Festival of the Americans – and stripped of all Confederate symbols.

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At COP29, the climate conference taking place in Azerbaijan indigenous people from across the world are sharing share stories of rising seas, burning trees, contaminated water and disease. But they also come ready to discuss solutions, sharing work their communities are doing to help confront a major threat to life on Earth: climate change.

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Supporters of ruling party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum embrace after the polls closed. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme) 

Mexico’s first female president held out an olive branch to the more than one-third of Mexicans who didn’t vote for her, but she faces a market meltdown and a tough path toward reconciling a country left deeply divided by outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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Empty bowls at a refugee camp in Kenya. Author provided via The Conversation. 

‘You reach a point where you have nothing. You will just die’

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Tense negotiations at the final meeting on a climate-related loss and damages fund — an international fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet — ended Saturday in Abu Dhabi, with participants agreeing that the World Bank would temporarily oversee the fund for the next four years. The U.S. and several developing countries expressed disappointment in the draft agreement, which will be sent for global leaders to sign at the COP28 climate conference, which begins in Dubai in late November

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Internet and phone connectivity were restored for many people in Gaza on Sunday, even as the Israeli military intensified its strikes on the besieged enclave from the land, air and sea. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu tells Israelis to prepare for a long and difficult war as US aircraft carriers arrive in the Mediterranean and the UN security council schedules an emergency meeting for Monday

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