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This fan was a great companion during a late summer parade, providing some airflow without much noise. I appreciate that the fan blades are soft, and they stop automatically if they hit something—it’s the type of fan you could hand off to a kid without much worry. It can also stand up on a table, and when folded, easily fits in a small purse or clutch. It comes in pretty pastel colors and has tiny, pointed ears, with a button that looks like some kind of cute creature, though I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be an owl or…

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Juba, Germany, has provided another 65 million USD to UNICEF and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to strengthen community resilience to various shocks in South Sudan. The funding comes at a time when 9.3 million people — about 70 per cent of the 13.4 million population — are estimated to require humanitarian assistance. The contribution channelled through KfW, the German Development Bank, will be used to support close to one million people, under the Joint Resilience Project Phase II in South Sudan, targeting urban and peri-urban areas in Juba, Torit, Yambio, and Aweil. The German funding will be…

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292 The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, has revealed that diaspora remittance inflow into the country has seen a significant increase, rising from $200 million to $600 million per month. He made this disclosure during the Delta State–Brazil Business and Investment Roundtable held in São Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday. Cardoso attributed the surge to the apex bank’s policies, which have helped make the country’s exchange rate more competitive. He noted that when the CBN began implementing reforms to tap into diaspora remittances as a potential source for diversifying Nigeria’s foreign exchange (FX) inflows, critics were…

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Getty ImagesA baby whose mother was not vaccinated against whooping cough while pregnant has died after contracting the infection, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said.The death, which occurred between January and June 2025, is the first fatal case of whooping cough in the UK this year.It follows government warnings about low vaccine uptake, including among children, as well as an increase in vaccine hesitancy. None of the main childhood vaccines in England reached the uptake target of 95% last year, recent data from the health agency showed.Whooping cough is a bacterial infection of the lungs and airways which…

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Dave WilsonAug 30, 2025, 04:22 PM ETCloseDave Wilson is a college football reporter. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun.COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Kelly Yokely first heard in April that Saturday’s game between Texas and Ohio State would be the final appearance for Lee Corso on “College GameDay,” she immediately thought of chocolate chip cookies.Yokely, an Auburn grad, loves Corso. She loves him so much that when he first made a visit for the Iron Bowl between her Tigers and Alabama 21 years ago, she brought him homemade cookies.Corso saw a sign…

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WhatsApp said on Friday that it fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into the Apple devices of “specific targeted users.” The Meta-owned messaging app giant said in its security advisory that it fixed the vulnerability, known officially as CVE-2025-55177, which was used alongside a separate flaw found in iOS and Macs, which Apple fixed last week and tracks as CVE-2025-43300. Apple said at the time that the flaw was used in an “extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” Now we know that dozens of WhatsApp users were targeted…

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The news this week that the X-Men are finally heading to the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been predicted ever since Disney’s $71bn buyout of 20th Century Fox in 2019, when every comic book mutant back to Apocalypse suddenly became available to Kevin Feige and Marvel. But it remains to be seen when and how Jean Grey, Cyclops et al will finally make landfall on Earth-616, especially since nobody has yet explained how Marvel plans to smuggle them into a timeline that has spent the best part of two decades blissfully ignoring their existence.In an interview with Empire magazine, Thunderbolts* director,…

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Published On 31 Aug 202531 Aug 2025The Global Sumud Flotilla has left the Spanish port city of Barcelona, with the stated goal of “breaking Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza”.The boats started moving out of the port at approximately 3:30pm on Sunday, with crowds of activists, support staff, and well-wishers there to see the crews off.Mauricio Morales, reporting from on board the Familia, one of the Flotilla boats, said: “The turnout was overwhelming, I think nobody was expecting so many people to wave goodbye to the volunteers. Spirits are high, people are strangers in this particular boat, but [each has] a…

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The Government of Rwanda has ratified a $27.95 million (approx. Rwf40 billion) loan agreement with the OPEC Fund for International Development to support the establishment of a Center of Excellence in Aviation Skills (CEAS). The ratification, outlined under a relevant law of August 25, was published in the Official Gazette on August 28, and came into force immediately. Signed in Vienna on June 17, the loan aims to finance part of the construction and equipping of a multidisciplinary centre of excellence in aviation with international standards to respond to the fast-growing demand for critical skills in this sector. It aims…

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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureBrighton had only one shot in that half, the strike by Mitoma that brought a fine save from Trafford. That, according to Sky, is the fewest shots Brighton have had in a first half at home for ten years.ShareHALF-TIME! Brighton 0-1 Man CitySo City hold onto their lead, and they deserve it. Since Haaland clicked into gear, after about 25 minutes, they have been much the better team. Brighton have found a few openings, but they will need to be far more precise in the final third.Share45+3 min Brighton…

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