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Desmond Tutu will be remembered for helping end apartheid. But also for his memorable laugh, an infectious, cackling, howl employed in the service of easing tensions in a very tense nation. (Image credit: AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

After media reports said government considering using restrictions to push more to get shots, Mandelblit stresses only health reasons are taken into account

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The Anglican archbishop who led a global campaign to end South Africa’s racist policies and then helped in healing the nation’s wounds, has died at 90.

In Enid, Okla., pandemic politics prompted a fundamental question: What does it mean to be an American? Whose version of the country will prevail?

South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Tutu dies aged 90  Reuters Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90  CNN South Africa’s Tutu – anti-apartheid hero who never stopped fighting for “Rainbow Nation”  Yahoo News Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90  The New

Officers arrive at man’s house and find memorabilia including knives, bullets and an ‘altar-like decoration’ in the living room featuring pictures of Adolf Hitler

They stood hand in hand on the day Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first democratically elected president, for the pair had changed the nation.

Omicron-linked staff shortages hit airlines with nearly 1,000 international and domestic flights scrapped Saturday; 6,000 flights affected globally over holiday weekend

Status will grant almost all the same rights as citizens, except voting in elections; can be renewed after 6 months if they prove their lives are centered in Israel