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Dwayne Johnson reveals plans for live-action reimagining of Disney’s ‘Moana’ Dwayne Johnson revealed in a recorded message from Hawaii that a live-action reimagining of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 2016 hit feature film Moana is in development.  The new film is produced by Johnson, Dany Garcia, and Hiram Garcia via their Seven Bucks Productions and Beau Flynn via Flynn Picture Co. Executive producers include Auli‘i Cravalho, who voiced Moana, and Scott Sheldon of Flynn Picture Co. Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller (who is of Samoan heritage) will also take part in the production. Bush, who was a director and co-writer…

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This year we have one child who is going from being a little kid, or tween into secondary school age. It’s a tough transition, I had thought it would get easier as your children grow but challenges just change. So if you’re looking to buy the perfect gift for an 11-year-old girl or like us, for 11-year-old boys. We’ve created a guide to some presents which are great gifts and most importantly are considered cool by your older kids. For good reason, the best toys are not now the noisy, plastic ones, thank goodness that stage has passed! A great gift…

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Issued on: 04/05/2023 – 11:22Modified: 04/05/2023 – 11:27 00:58 © france 24 At least 127 have died in fierce flooding in Rwanda. The disaster is the deadliest extreme weather to hit the country in several years. Most of the deaths happened in Western province on the borders of lake Kivu. FRANCE 24’s Clément di Roma tells us more Read more on related topics:

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Issued on: 04/05/2023 – 11:29Modified: 04/05/2023 – 11:52 05:15 © france 24 A huge fossil fuel project in East Africa has sparked fierce push back .The East african crude oil pipe line or eacop will transport oil along a 1,443km heated pipeline operated by France’s Total Energy and spanning from Uganda to the Tanzanian coast. The first exports are slated for 2025 but the financing of the project is still up in the air. A string of banks and insurers have refused their bavking. Environmental groups warn the project’s a global warming, ecological and human rights disaster. Supporters say its…

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In tonight’s edition: “Sudan cannot afford a struggle for power between two people,” warns the UN’s Secretary General. Also, over 120 lives are lost in the most deadly floods and landslides to hit Rwanda in the last few years. Finally, the world’s longest heated pipeline continues to attract warnings of climate disaster. The EACOP project will extend from Uganda to Tanzania but the huge investment in fossil fuels is sparking criticism. 

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Issued on: 04/05/2023 – 08:52 Torrential rains caused flooding in western and northern Rwanda, killing at least 129 people, a public broadcaster said Wednesday. The death toll “continues to rise,” the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency said Wednesday.“This could be the highest disaster-induced death toll to be recorded in the country in the shortest period, according to available records from recent years,” the government-backed New Times newspaper reported.Francois Habitegeko, governor of Rwanda’s Western province, told reporters that a search for more victims was underway following heavy rain Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.Strong rainstorms started last week, causing flooding and mudslides that swept…

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Book Review of Old Mother West Wind TalesSponsored | All opinions are our ownThe Children’s Book Review Written and illustrated by Muz Murray All Ages | 202 Pages Publisher: Inner Garden Publications | ISBN-13: 9781999632748 What to Expect: Animals, wildlife, kindness, friendship, learning Old Mother West Wind Tales is an updated and rewritten version of Thornton W. Burgess’s classic moral tales that brings the natural world to life with the animated countryside and anthropomorphized animals—all in accessible rhyming prose perfect for modern readers. Old Mother West Wind and her Merry Little Breezes see everything that happens in their part of…

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Brighton Sunday Market is one of South Australia’s biggest open-air markets blending fresh produce, food carts and snack bars, with local arts and craft, antiques, collectables, and second-hand dealers selling just about anything. Brighton Sunday Market is held in the grounds of Brighton Secondary School in North Brighton.  The morning market runs on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month, unless this falls on Anzac Day, Easter Sunday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or Boxing Day. All funds raised by Brighton Sunday Market (a not-for-profit organisation) are used to support students during their study of music. For more information and…

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Issued on: 04/05/2023 – 03:19 The United Nations pressed Sudan’s warring factions on Wednesday to guarantee safe passage of humanitarian aid after six trucks were looted and air strikes in the capital undermined a supposed truce. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said he hoped to have face-to-face meetings with Sudan’s warring parties within two to three days to secure guarantees from them for aid convoys to deliver relief supplies.The meeting could take place in Khartoum, the capital, or another location, Griffiths told Reuters in a phone interview from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, following a visit to Port Sudan intended to plan a large-scale relief operation.”It’s important to me that…

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Issued on: 04/05/2023 – 01:27 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Wednesday the temporary suspension of its food assistance to the Tigray region of Ethiopia. While describing the move as a “difficult decision”, USAID Administrator Samantha Power said the agency recently discovered that food aid intended for people of the region, who are suffering under famine-like condition, was being diverted and sold on the local market.The agency referred the matter to its Office of the Inspector General, which launched an investigation, and sent leaders from its Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance to Ethiopia before deciding to on a temporary pause…

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