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Hundreds of thousands of people took over downtown Sao Paulo on Sunday for the city’s annual Pride parade, many dazzling in green and yellow as part of a campaign to reclaim the Brazilian flag colors appropriated by the political right. A huge rainbow flag covered the facade of the Sao Paulo Art Museum to welcome […]

Thousands of people were evacuated over the weekend and even more are about to leave their homes as southern Germany was ravaged by severe flooding that left one emergency worker dead and at least one person missing on Sunday evening. Several villages along the Danube and Schmutter rivers were evacuated on Sunday evening when an

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s elections have decided little, aside from the African National Congress liberating the country from apartheid in 1994 has lost its thirty-year majority. However, it remained the largest party. Because no one has a majority, the party leaders of South Africa coalition talks begin to form a government.

(Reuters) -Qatar Airways PJSC is nearing a decision on a major split of widebody orders between Boeing and Airbus, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Middle Eastern airline is considering ordering around 200 aircraft, looking at a mix of Airbus A350s and Boeing 777X models, with a decision possible

Students build solar-powered off-road camperBart van Overbeeke Photography BMW was unveiled to much fanfare at the 2021 Munich International Motor Show the iVision Circular concept car, designed for ‘the circular economy’, an eco-movement buzzword for recycling old stuff into new stuff with minimal energy. The iVision was the model of what the future of cars

Thousands of people were evacuated over the weekend and an emergency worker was killed during severe flooding in southern Germany, as heavy rains and flooding in two states caused further disruption on Sunday. About 3,000 people in Bavaria were evacuated from flooded areas, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said on Sunday. About 20,000 emergency workers are

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters blocked roads in Jerusalem on Sunday as Israel’s Supreme Court heard arguments in a landmark case challenging a controversial system of exemptions from military service for the religious community. The court is investigating the legality of the exemptions, which have divided the country and threatened the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s governing

President Cyril Ramaphosa has described South Africa’s election results as a victory for democracy, despite his African National Congress (ANC) party losing its majority for the first time. The party, once led by Nelson Mandela, won 159 seats in the 400-seat parliament, up from 230 in the previous meeting. It is the ANC’s worst election

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Qatar and Saudi Arabia on Sunday condemned an Israeli parliamentary bill that aims UNRWAthe main provider of aid to the Palestinians in Gaza, a terrorist group, joining a growing number of countries opposing the proposal. The bill, which passed a preliminary vote in parliament last week, is the result of

Japan’s space agency said it has lost contact with its intrepid Venus spacecraft Akatsuki. Akatsuki is the Japanese mission dedicated to studying the climate of Venus and currently the only active spacecraft orbiting the second planet from the Sun. The $300 million spacecraft launched in 2010 and had a less-than-stellar start to its mission. It