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Minute's silence to remember the victims of the terror attack

MIND THE GAP

The super rich are weighing down one of the world’s most socially equal countries

FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2012 file photo, construction worker Elabert Salazar works on a house frame for a new home in Chula Vista, Calif. In 2012, the unemployment rate dipped to a four-year-low of 7.7 percent, stock markets rose, builders broke ground on more homes, and November was the best sales month in nearly five years for U.S. automakers. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

MIDDLE CLASS SQUEEZE

The “skinny repeal” of Obamacare is dead

This photo taken Friday, May 19, 2017, shows the Johannesburg Art Gallery, foreground, in Joubert Park, Johannesburg. The gallery has been struggling with water damage, low morale and a lack of funding, with deeper challenges including identifying audiences in a country with pressing social problems and a history of racial conflict. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Johannesburg wants to be a “world class African city”—just not for African foreigners

Welcome banner at Google For Nigeria event held at the Landmark Event Center in Lagos on July 27 2017

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Google wants to bypass Nigeria’s slow internet with its “offline first” YouTube

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