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Authorities say dozens of homeless people are dead in a building fire
At least nine people died and several were injured in a fire that broke out in a building in South Africa’s Johannesburg, officials said on Sunday. The city’s Mayor said that the building is one of more than 600 illegally occupied buildings in South Africa. He added that people lit fires inside the building to…
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Over the last 50 years, animal populations have shrunk by an average of 70%.
A new report by the Zoological Society of London and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has found a decline in wildlife populations across the world over the past 50 years. Latin America and the Caribbean saw a 94% average population loss and Africa saw a 66% decline, while North America experienced only a 20% drop and…