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Zimbabwe: Highlanders Win in Five-Goal Thriller

AllAfrica.com (sport) 

[The Herald] TWO quick-fire second half goals by Allen Gahadzikwa and Prince Dube turned the game on its hand to give Highlanders maximum points and only their second victory over ZPC Kariba from seven meetings in the Castle Lager Premiership.

New Orleans to take down Confederate statues

ABC News 

Workers in New Orleans removed the first of four prominent Confederate monuments Monday morning, becoming the latest Southern institution to sever itself from symbols viewed by many as a representation of racism and white supremacy



New Orleans Removing Monuments Honoring Racially Segregated Past

Voice of America 

The southern U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana has begun removing four prominent monuments that paid tribute to the city's racially segregated past. Workers began dismantling the first memorial, which commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial government in New Orleans in the years after the U.S. Civil War, after midnight. Officials decided to remove the statue in the dead of night in an attempt to avoid disruption from opponents of the removals. New Orleans's majority-black city council voted in 2015 to take the statues down... Читать дальше...

Trump’s Cabinet picks fuel stage drama in London and NY

TheRepublic.com 

LONDON — Coming soon to the West End and Broadway stage: Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, Tom Price and Scott Pruitt. Four key players in President Donald Trump’s new administration are central characters in a “verbatim play,” boiled down from combative U.S. Senate confirmation hearings, that looks to Trump’s Cabinet picks for clues to his government’s

America’s health care cost problem might shut down Hollywood

Vox 

Nobody is safe.

If you miss out on the last few episodes of Saturday Night Live this summer, blame America’s decades-long struggle to bring its health care costs under control.

The Writers Guild of America, the union that represents television and film writers, could go on strike as early as May 2 — and a big reason why is the cost of health care.

The union and the Hollywood studios it contracts with are at an impasse. The workers will likely vote Monday to authorize a strike. Читать дальше...

‘Pokémon GO’ Players Using Chinese Phones Get Screen Block Message

International Business Times 

Many “Pokémon GO” players are voicing their concern online about getting random screen block messages while playing the mobile game. It appears that the problem persists mainly in smartphones made by Chinese manufacturers. This Monday, several Pokémon Trainers complained  via Reddit that they are getting a strange screen block message that says, “This device, OS, or software is not compatible with ‘Pokémon GO.’” It wasn’t clear what’s causing this notification to appear, but users are saying that the message just pops up at random.

Silicon Valley takes on the flying car

CNBC 

More than a dozen start-ups backed by deep-pocketed industry figures along with big aerospace firms are taking on the dream of the flying car. NYT reports.

The Latest: Migrant boat sinks in Aegean Sea, 16 dead

TheRepublic.com 

ATHENS, Greece — The Latest on the influx of refugees and migrants to Europe (all times local): 3:25 p.m. Greek authorities say a migrant boat sinking has left 16 people dead, with nine bodies recovered from Greek waters off the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, and another seven bodies recovered from Turkish waters. Greece’s coast





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