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Curated by Jonathan Ancer
Shell loses right to blast | Jab up, Covid wave on the way | Poland demands WW2 reparations | Sarah Palin humbled | Russian oil exec critical of Putin's war falls out window | I sued a spammer and won
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The Eastern Cape High Court has ruled that the exploration rights granted by the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Affairs to Impact Africa and Shell were unlawful.
GroundUp News
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Operation Dudula, who had been preventing foreigners from accessing the facility, clashed with EFF members outside Kalafong Hospital. Police used stun grenades to disperse the crowd.
News24
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Virologist Barry Schoub says biggest challenge is SA’s low vaccine uptake. 'We need to increase it urgently because we’re not out the woods. I don’t think the concept of herd immunity is realistic.'
Business Day
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Motorists forced to pay premium for smuggled black market fuel or drive to border with neighbouring Mozambique
The Guardian
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UNITA leader Adalberto Costa Junior says he doesn't recognise the final results of the August 24 elections, which were the most hotly contested in Angola since its first multi-party vote in 1992.
Al Jazeera
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Poland's top politician Jaroslaw Kaczynski announced the claim at the release of a report on the cost to the country of years of Nazi occupation as it marks 83 years since the start of World War 2.
Washington Post
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Peltola is the first Democrat to hold the seat in 50 years and the first Alaskan native to sit in the US House of Representatives. She won in a state that Trump won in 2020 by 10 percentage points.
Financial Times
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He led Iraqi fighters against US soldiers. Now he's at the centre of Iraq's worst violence in years.
Parts of Iraq descended into deadly street clashes as followers of powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr traded fire with security forces and fellow Shia Muslim militias,
NBC News
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Ravil Maganov was chair of Russia’s biggest private oil company, Lukoil, which has criticised Ukraine invasion
The Guardian
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Health News |
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Women in Health: Petro Terblanche – the farm girl from Brits who steered Africa’s first mRNA vaccine
When Prof Terblanche joined biotech start-up Afrigen she had no idea her team would create the continent’s first mRNA vaccine. But she had already been at the forefront of cutting-edge scientific work
Spotlight
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Sport |
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The T20 league is set to start in January but the real story is that it exists at all. In a crowded calendar, with many T20 Leagues all over the world, the SA20 has elbowed its way onto the table.
Daily Maverick
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And Then There's This ... |
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David Weekly was fed up with telemarketing calls and spam texts. After a text hit his phone in June he decided he'd had enough. He sued the spammer and ended up with a $1 200 cheque.
CNET
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