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ABUJA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The Netherlands has agreed to return more than 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, the latest European country to return cultural artefacts to Africa, the Dutch embassy in Abuja said on Wednesday.

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Countries such as South Africa, India and China offer new growth frontiers for investors.

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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stares in historian

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King Donold is demanding Boeing rush production of his new Air Force One planes. They better do what he asks!

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Do you know what never fails to improve my mood? Talking to someone really smart about a thing they know really well, and learning about that thing from them.

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Judge blocks bequest to white supremacist organisation. The judge said common law provided for a declaration of unenforceability in a will where a provision would fund unlawful and discriminatory activities. groundup.org.za/article/bequ...

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Now available as a T shirt! www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1687...

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KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053

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It appears that the vaccines were also effective against yeast infections?🤭

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Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen insists that he is not aware of a single South African farmer packing their bags for Trump’s asylum offer.

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You don't even need to remember! Bluesky has a setting you can toggle on that won't let you post a picture without ALT text.

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Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.

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David Jeffery-Schwikkard’s research reveals sub-Saharan Africa’s devout populations receive minimal state support for religion. These findings unsettle many common misconceptions about the role of religion in politics. theconversation.com/deeply-relig... #Politics

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The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

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When people talk about the "descent into fascism" there's a passive voice that misses that with every prison built, every budget dollar to police, every bomb paid for and dropped on Gaza, every student sanctioned for protest, every deportation, every border patrol, we laid the bricks one by one.

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The world becomes one huge deep vowel of horror, while behind those mildewed flags, the slogans that always rhyme with dead, sit a few old guys making money. ▫️Margaret Atwood, "Owl and Pussycat, some years later", 2007 📚🖋 💙📚

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Remember, there’s infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch infrastructure.

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Someone shared this with me, and I know that Trump has a completely binary transactional approach to foreign relations but from the outside this looks like stupidity. I mean: "$32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre" just means "Spies" .../

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Netball tournament brings locals and immigrants together in Gqeberha Read groundup.org.za/article/gqeb... by Joseph Chirume

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Openly defining the rule of law as whatever he says it is. Happening right in front of us.

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Trump-DOGE WH wants to un-fire some nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them. -- By Peter Alexander and Alexandra Marquez www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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<snort>

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

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Always two there are. A master and The Apprentice.

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If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

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Remember when Musk and Zuck were gonna maybe fight in a UFC cage match? We should get that going again. Zuck hates Musk. Altman hates Musk. Like, every other billionaire hates Elon Musk? Can they all just do a cage match, already? @mcuban.bsky.social you down?

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'Mexico' is masculine 'America' is feminine What I'm saying is that Trump changed the gender of a body of water

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Full moon tonight 12th Feb 2025. Monitor mind, mood, manners, mouth and motorists. There be crazies about.

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The US embassy in South Africa has issued a ‘fact sheet’ about this country that is so incredibly bad and not so much inaccurate as garbled. It’s … shocking. It’s actually shocking that this is ‘official’ communication now. Syntax and logic be damned I suppose?

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I will give it 2 years after Must takes over before ChatGPT is an outright Nazi chatbot. Any takers?

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