Friday Briefing The deaths of dozens of individuals in a hearth in South Africa. #Friday #Briefing

Might Australia and New Zealand Grow to be One Nation? The Australia Letter is a weekly e-newsletter from our Australia bureau. Enroll to get it by e mail. This week’s problem is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter in Melbourne. Turning into a republic, legalizing same-sex marriage, altering the Structure to determine an Aboriginal advisory…

Pope Visits Mongolia, With an Eye on Russia and China Pope Francis has lengthy expressed a want to go to Russia and China in hopes of therapeutic the church’s historic rifts and guaranteeing the religion’s future within the populous East. On Friday, he got here very shut, touchdown in Mongolia, a rustic sandwiched between the…

Keith Spicer, Canada’s Offbeat Envoy of Reconciliation, Dies at 89 Keith Spicer, who as a spirited authorities official pushed his fellow Canadians to outline their nationwide id and reconcile their bilingual heritage greater than two centuries after the British defeated the French to seize Quebec, died on Aug. 24 in Ottawa. He was 89. His…

Hearth in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kills 74 They arrived in desperation, unable to search out something higher, safer or cheaper in a metropolis with a extreme scarcity of reasonably priced housing. They settled in a trash-choked constructing owned and uncared for by the town of Johannesburg, paying “hire” to criminals. A whole bunch of individuals…

With Robotyne Recaptured, Ukraine Takes Subsequent Step in Counteroffensive After piercing a frightening line of Russian defenses across the southern village of Robotyne, Ukrainian forces are actually in search of to take the subsequent step of their arduous counteroffensive, waging a fierce battle a couple of miles farther to the east, based on Ukrainian army…

Gabon’s Chief, Ali Bongo Ondimba, Was Extra Admired Overseas Than at Residence Because the omnipotent ruler of oil-rich Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba had two passions, music and forests, that solid {powerful} ties the world over. An completed musician, Mr. Bongo recorded a disco-funk album and lured James Brown and Michael Jackson to Gabon. As president,…

Friday Briefing: A Lethal Fireplace in South Africa South Africa’s deadliest residential hearth in years No less than 74 folks, together with a dozen youngsters, died yesterday in a hearth in Johannesburg that tore by a constructing the place squatters lived, metropolis officers mentioned. It was one of many deadliest residential fires in South Africa’s…

Extra Than 100 Faculties in England Ordered Closed Over Defective Concrete LONDON — Greater than 100 faculties throughout England have been ordered to shut Thursday as a result of they have been constructed utilizing unsafe concrete, the Division for Schooling mentioned in an announcement Thursday afternoon, a couple of days earlier than the beginning of…

Why the Johannesburg Residence Constructing Was a Firetrap It might take time to find out what began an condo fireplace in Johannesburg early Thursday morning and why greater than 70 folks died. However witness accounts, imagery of the blaze and a go to to the positioning in Could point out that the five-story constructing had…