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Lagos turns to waterways for green transport
Nigerian saleswoman Ivy Junaid says her daily half-an-hour commute from mainland Lagos to the city's island business district has changed her life.
What was once often a three-hour nightmare drive to work with a pre-dawn start and gnarly traffic has become a quick sprint skimming across the waters of Lagos lagoon by boat.
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Rio works to make carnival safer for women
Avoid being alone in a crowd, opt for canned drinks over potentially drugged cocktails, scan a QR code to access emergency resources as Rio enters carnival season, there has been a flood of advice on how women can stay safe.
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Bulgaria: The State Debt for 2022 is over 37.85 Billion Leva - The Deficit is 2.9% of GDP
The budget deficit in the "State Government" institutional sector for 2022 is 4,859,000,000 leva, NSI reports. This is 2.9% of GDP.
Week in Review: New Dawns and Old Problems
End of an Era
Europe Now candidate Jakov Milatovic (C) and the leaders of the ruling majority in Podgorica, Montenegro. Photo: EPA-EFE/BORIS PEJOVIC
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Bulgaria's External Debt Jumped to 45.1 Billion Euros
The gross external debt at the end of January 2023 amounted to nearly 45.1 billion euros (49.9 percent of the estimated Gross Domestic Product - GDP), reports the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).
This is almost EUR 3.963 billion (9.6 percent) more than at the end of January 2022 (over EUR 41.120 billion, 48.6 percent of GDP).
Death toll in India temple collapse rises to 35
The death toll after a floor collapsed at a Hindu temple in India had risen to 35 on Friday, with rescue operations underway to find one person still missing, a local official told AFP.
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Millions of dead fish clog Australian river
Millions of dead and rotting fish have clogged a vast stretch of river near a remote town in the Australian outback as a searing heatwave sweeps through the region.
Videos posted to social media showed boats ploughing through a blanket of dead fish smothering the water, with the surface barely visible underneath.
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Australian rangers find ‘monster’ 2.7 kg cane toad
Australian rangers have killed an invasive "monster" cane toad discovered in the wilds of a coastal park, a warty brown specimen as long as a human arm and weighing 2.7 kilograms.
The toad was spotted after a snake slithering across a track forced wildlife workers to stop as they were driving in Queensland's Conway National Park, the state government said.
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Human Rights Watch: Air Pollution Killing Thousands in Bosnia
Human Rights Watch has again drawn attention to the problem of air pollution in Bosnian cities. "Nine per cent of the country's deaths are due to air pollution and an estimated 3,300 people die prematurely every year as a result of exposure to ambient PM2.5 air pollution," an HRW report published on Monday says.
Which States in the US Allow Online Gambling?
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