Uganda Airlines unveils Mumbai flight timetable

Uganda Airlines will fly to Mumbai from October 7 every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, the carrier revealed during a prelaunch breakfast organized for leaders of top-tier resident Indian business entities on August 18. Mumbai will be the carrier’s twelfth destination and is expected to be followed by a series of other route announcements, over the next…

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The Pyongyang Municipal Myohyangsan Children’s Camp for Mountaineering

A Day of Moutaineering: The Pyongyang Municipal Myohyangsan Children’s Camp for Mountaineering is situated in Mt Myohyang, one of the six celebrated mountains in Korea. Students from Pyongyang come here and have a pleasant time feasting their eyes on exquisite rocks, ravines and falls which they used to see on books or TV, collecting plants and hunting “treasures.”

World Leaders kick off BRICS summit with Business Forum

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao and Russian delegations opened this year’s BRICS summit with the Business Forum on Tuesday. The Russian President reiterated his promise to deliver grain to six African countries free of charge, in a pre-recorded…

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William Gladstone: family of former British PM to apologise for links to slavery

Descendants of PM, whose father’s wealth came from sugar plantations, travel to Guyana for 200th anniversary of rebellion by enslaved Africans The family of one of Britain’s most famous prime ministers will travel to the Caribbean this week to apologise for its historical role in slavery. Six of William Gladstone’s descendants will arrive in Guyana on Thursday as…

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Tropical Storm Hilary batters California after making landfall in Mexico

Portion of highway in Barstow closed after power pole struck by lightning From CNN’s Joe Sutton  A portion of Interstate 15 is closed in Barstow, California due to downed power lines, according to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans.) “A power pole in Barstow was struck by lightning at about 11 a.m. Sunday and I-15…

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