Dragon capsule heads for space station

The demonstration flight of America’s new astronaut capsule will see it dock with the lab.

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‘God Has Been so Faithful’: London Street Preacher Gives Powerful Update After Shocking Arrest

Oluwole Ilesanmi, the Nigerian man who was arrested in London for simply preaching the Gospel, has spoken out following his release. “Olu” was simply quoting Scripture and preaching the good news of Jesus to anyone who would listen when, on Feb. 23, he was accosted by two police officers and arrested for “breaching the peace.”

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'We the Church Are Actually Better Together': Pastors Unite Across the World Gather to Push PEACE Plan

Established by Saddleback Church, led by Pastor Rick Warren, the conference continues an effort that began roughly 15 years ago. The effort was a strategy called the PEACE Plan which brought together Rwandan churches from all denominations to transform their nation. 

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'They Arrested Him for Islamophobia': Muslim Targets Street Preacher, Police Arrest the Christian

Britain was once the home of world missions. But today, it's increasingly hostile to the gospel. In the latest episode, London police are under fire for arresting an elderly Nigerian man for preaching on the streets of London

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Trump's Decision to Leave the Hanoi Summit: Success, or Failure?

His critics are calling it a failure. But President Trump and members of his administration say walking out of the Hanoi summit was a necessary step in a lengthy process to reach agreement on denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. 

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Gospel for Asia Reaches Settlement Ending 3-Year Legal Nightmare: 'We Look to the Future with Optimism'

One of the world's largest missionary agencies is thanking God as a more than three-year legal battle against allegations of financial fraud is finally coming to an end.

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'The Kids Are So Young': Ontario's Public Elementary Schools Forced to Fly Gay Pride Flag

In June, all public elementary schools under the jurisdiction of one school district in Ontario, Canada will be forced to fly the gay pride flag to commemorate Pride Month. 

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No Nuclear Deal for Trump and Kim: 'Sometimes You Have to Walk'

President Donald Trump has decided to walk away from his summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam after the dictator refused to give up his regime's nuclear weapons.

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Pakistan and India Inch Toward Military Conflict, 2 Indian Warplanes Downed, Pilots Captured

Pakistan shot down two Indian warplanes Wednesday in the disputed region of Kashmir and captured their pilots, its military said, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals to a level unseen in 20 years.   

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Facebook Bans Tommy Robinson for Sounding the Alarm About Radical Islam

Facebook has banned conservative political activist Tommy Robinson, the founder of the English Defense League, for his repeated criticism of Islam and the mainstream media.

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Venezuela's Maduro Defies All, Detains Foreign Journalist, Says US Wants Country's Oil

On Monday Venezuela's dictator Nicholas Maduro said the US will go to war for his country's oil and he detained an international journalist after he showed Maduro footage of Venezuelan children searching for food in a garbage truck.

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Most Senior Catholic Charged With Child Sex Abuse Convicted

The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy’s credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up.

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‘Don’t Take My Bible Away!’ Shocking Arrest of Peaceful Street Preacher Caught on Video

A street preacher has been arrested in London, sparking outrage online. In a video of the incident posted to Twitter, officers can be seen forcefully asking the African man to stop, before arresting him on a rather baffling charge of “breaching the peace.”

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'I Know that God Is with Us': Despite Border Bloodshed, Desperate Venezuelans Say US Gov't Gives Them Hope

Tear gas and gunfire stopped a humanitarian convoy from entering Venezuela this weekend. Hundreds were left wounded and several are dead after forces loyal to dictator Nicolás Maduro opened fire, raising fears the political standoff is veering into open conflict.

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Christians Deliver Refugee Babies in the Desert as Syrians Flee Last ISIS Stronghold

Syrian families are fleeing in a mass exodus from the last strip of land under ISIS control.

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US Religious Freedom Envoy: Pakistan Has ‘Desire to Change’

Pakistan has “a desire to change” its ways and be removed from an American blacklist of countries that infringe on religious freedoms, a U.S. special envoy said Sunday on a tour of a Mideast long riven by faith.

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‘Now I’d Die for Jesus’: Muslim Man Plotted to Kill Christian Cousin Before Christ Appeared in Dream

A Muslim Egyptian man who planned to murder his Christian cousin has revealed his story of miraculous conversion.

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Pope Vows to End Abuse Cover-Ups but Victims Disappointed

Pope Francis closed out his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse by vowing Sunday to confront abusers with “the wrath of God” felt by the faithful, end the cover-ups by their superiors and prioritize the victims of this “brazen, aggressive and destructive evil.” But his failure to offer a concrete action plan to hold bishops accountable when they failed to protect their flocks from predators disappointed survivors, who had expected more from the first-ever global Catholic summit of its kind.

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Africa: Mount Kenya - Wildfires Rage Around Africa's Second Highest Peak

[Deutsche Welle] Authorities have roped in teams of soldiers and volunteers to help tackle wildfires in the Mount Kenya national park. Illegal marijuana farmers have been blamed for the blaze, which threatens natural bamboo forests.

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Africa: African School of Physics Program Aims to Launch More Science Careers

[VOA] Africa-born particle physicist Ketevi Assamagan is a man on a science mission. His goal is to bring science education to a new generation of African youth through a traveling program known as the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications, or ASP.

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Africa: Are New Smartphone Disease Trackers Missing a Key Target - Women?

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Yaounde -Across low- and middle-income countries, 313 million fewer women than men use mobile internet, representing a gender gap of 23 per cent

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Africa: Women Have Only Three Quarters of Economic Rights of Men - World Bank

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -Discriminatory laws mean women are held back from gaining economic independence and also contribute to a loss of $160 trillion in lost earnings worldwide each year

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Africa: Nkana Seek to End Away Drought

[CAF] Nkana's Group C away credentials will be in in the dock on Sunday in Ghana when they visit Asante Kotoko in Kumasi.

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Africa: Courtesy Visit of the Malagasy Minister of Youth and Sports to the CAF President

[CAF] Mr. Ahmad Ahmad, President of the Confédération Africaine de Football received this Friday, March 1, 2019, a visit of the Minister of Youth and Sports of Madagascar, Mr. Tinoka Roberto.

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Africa: Mauritius to Host the Junior Chamber International Africa and the Middle East Conference 2019

[Government of Mauritius] Mauritius will be hosting the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Africa and the Middle East Conference 2019 from 1st to 4 May 2019 at the Intercontinental Hotel, Balaclava. Some 400 delegates and youth from 40 countries will be participating.

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Africa: Swahili Will Promote Africa's Dignity At the UN

[New Era] I was fortunate to recently attend the launch of the RUDN-IUM Centre for Russian Language and Pre-Graduate Studies in partnership with the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), in an effort to foster the internationalisation of tertiary education and promotion of international collaboration.

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Africa: It's Time to Rethink How Foreign Languages Are Taught At Universities

[The Conversation Africa] Many people underestimate the difficulty involved in learning a language. This is because language acquisition goes beyond comprehension. It also involves socialisation and emotion. The high level of personal engagement this requires is even more challenging at South African universities, where students are struggling to meet the demands of academic life.

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Africa: South Africa 'Resurrection' Pastor Challenged to Raise Mandela

[Monitor] A South African preacher has tried to confront another pastor for "bringing Christianity into disrepute" by staging a bogus resurrection.

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Africa: Hervé Renard - 'We Can Compete With Argentina'

[CAF] As the Total African Cup of Nations Egypt 2019 approaches, the Moroccan coach speaks to cafonline.com to discuss the state of his team's fitness. The Atlas Lions, already qualified, will face Malawi in the last day of qualifying before a gala match against Argentina in Tangier.

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Africa: Africa Poised to Tackle Hygiene and Sanitation

[allAfrica] Cape Town -The 2019 African Conference on Sanitation took place at in Cape Town, South Africa, from February 20 to 22 Up for discussion? The role of local authorities as key actors in aiding the continent achieve its goal of Sanitation for All by 2030. allAfrica's Michael Tantoh was there and spoke with several key actors...

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Africa: Black History Month - Africa Must Tap Potentials of Africans in the Diaspora - Panel

[Premium Times] Africa needs to bridge the gap between it and Africans in the diaspora so as to develop the continent.

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Africa: UN Probes Substandard Food Aid for Mothers and Children

[IRIN] The World Food Programme is investigating how up to 50,000 tonnes of nutrition-boosting porridge mix it purchased for distribution to nursing mothers and malnourished children in Somalia, Yemen, Bangladesh, and elsewhere was of substandard quality, despite its quality inspection process.

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Africa: Takeaways From Elections in Nigeria and Senegal

[Deutsche Welle] What does Senegal have in common with Nigeria regarding elections? Very few, if any at all. The former is regarded as a stable democracy, the latter is not. But experts say Abuja and Dakar can learn from each other.

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Africa: 2019 a Watershed Year for Labour Market in Africa

[SAnews.gov.za] Despite the ongoing reorganisation, the International Labour Organization (ILO) remains key to fast-tracking the implementation of sustainable decent work deficits in the continent.

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Africa: Signature of the Organizing Agreement for the Total Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt 2019

[CAF] On 25 February, 2019 at CAF headquarters, Mr. Ahmad Ahmad, President of the Confédération Africaine de Football and Mr. Hany Abo Rida, President of the Local Organizing Committee and President of the Egyptian Football Federation, signed the Organizing Association Agreement for the upcoming Total Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt 2019.

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Africa: 400 Years (1619-2019) After the Beginning of African Enslavement in the British Colony of Virginia

[Fahamu] Six months from now, a commemoration of the long saga of struggle against national oppression and economic exploitation will take place.

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Africa: U.S./Africa - From Wakanda to Reparations, Part 2

[AfricaFocus] "Just as cotton, and with it slavery, became key to the U.S. economy, it also moved to the center of the world economy and its most consequential transformations: the creation of a globally interconnected economy, the Industrial Revolution, the rapid spread of capitalist social relations in many parts of the world, and the Great Divergence--the moment when a few parts of the world became quite suddenly much richer than every other part." - Sven Beckert

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Africa: U.S./Africa - From Wakanda to Reparations, Part 1

[AfricaFocus] Jelani Cobb: "Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa, the Black Panther and the King of Wakanda, confronts Erik Killmonger, a black American mercenary, played by Michael B. Jordan, as a rival, but the two characters are essentially duelling responses to five centuries of African exploitation at the hands of the West. The villain, to the extent that the term applies, is history itself." Karen Attiah: "Indeed, ´Black Panther´ offers a radical vision of what black national power and internationalism could lo

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Africa: Why Fixing Africa's Data Gaps Will Lead to Better Health Policies

[The Conversation Africa] There's been a data revolution around the world driven by advances in information technology and a need for research that responds to complex developmental issues.

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Africa: Connecting Food Waste and Sanitation Services Can Help African Farmers

[The Conversation Africa] African agriculture is fundamental to supporting rural livelihoods and bolstering economic growth, and can benefit from technology and advances in other development sectors. One solution to help Africa's agriculture can come from an unlikely sector: sanitation.

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Africa: First Ever Global Scientific Eating Plan Forgets the World's Poor

[The Conversation Africa] A team of 37 world-leading scientists from 16 countries have just released the world's first ever scientific eating plan. The "planetary health diet" is designed to be healthier for people and more environmentally friendly.

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Africa: Drone Strikes a Growing Threat to African Civilians

[ISS] Since 2016, Donald Trump has loosened the reins on the US drone programme by lowering the standards for who can be targeted and where. This has severe consequences for counter-terrorism operations in Africa - particularly in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel.

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Africa: Earth Observation Data Offers Hope for Wetlands

[The Conversation Africa] Wetlands support millions of people around Africa. They include all areas that are permanently or frequently covered by water, and could be at the edge of a lake or the mouth of a river.

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Africa: How Continent Can Catch Up With the World in the Fight Against Poverty

[The Conversation Africa] The world is making remarkable progress in combating poverty. From 2000 to 2013, the portion of the world's population living on less than the international poverty line of US$1.90 a day fell from 28.5 % to 10.7 %. That's about one billion people lifted out of poverty.

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Africa: Don't Overlook 'Fragile' States for Social Businesses, Industry Experts Urge

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nairobi -African nations such as Somalia may be perceived as conflict-ridden and risky for business but "fragile states" can be an untapped opportunity for social enterprises that are flexible and think out-of-the-box, said industry experts.

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Africa: World's Best Smartphone Announced

[CAJ News] Johannesburg -THE Huawei Mate 20 Pro has been adjudged the world's best smartphone.

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Africa: AU Commission Conducts Malabo Declaration On Agriculture Training of Trainers for Biennial Review Process

[African Union] The African Union Commission's Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (DREA) and the AUDA-NEPAD last week organized a workshop for the Training of Trainers on the AU Malabo Declaration Biennial Review process.

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Africa: UK Ready to Increase Investments in Ghana - Minister for Africa

[Ghana Presidency] The United Kingdom's (UK) Minister of State for Africa, Harriet Baldwin has affirmed the UK government's commitment to increase her investment in Ghana and ensure greater economic harmonization between the two countries.

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Shinchan And Friends

Here is my drawing of Shinchan and his friends. They are my favorite cartoon characters. I have used sketch colors and colored pencils to complete it.

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BBC NEWS : How Botox became a million dollar idea

The BBC's Aaron Heslehurst explains how Botox became a million dollar idea.


March 01, 2019 at 05:43AM

from BBC News - Business
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47376067