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HOUSTON – Officials from the Houston Astros announced an updated schedule for the 2023 Shriners Children’s College Classic on Tuesday, which affected the previous March 3-5 slate for the Texas Tech baseball team.   Eight of the nine previously scheduled games were adjusted, in an effort to accommodate Sunday travel issues for incoming teams.   Texas Tech will now face Rice on Friday (11 a.m.), Michigan (11 a.m.) on Saturday and conclude with Texas A&M on Sunday (7 p.m.). The Red Raiders were previously scheduled to play Michigan on Friday, Texas A&M on Saturday and Rice on Sunday.   Texas…

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Our short stay in the land of the Amazon women who fought better than many a man was memorable. I had written an earlier piece “Christmas musings in Cotonou and the “japa” syndrome” on our Christmas experience. With Christmas over and our invitation elapsed, we had to move on. Rather than go through the nauseating demands at privatised toll collection points by Nigerians in uniform, by way of the Seme-Krake land border, we chose to leave Benin Republic through the Cadjehoun Cotonou Airport. The journey to the airport on the morning of December 28, 2022, was smooth until we were…

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Persecution of Christians is rising in sub-Saharan Africa, threatening a “vast humanitarian catastrophe” for the continent, a support group for victimized Christians said Tuesday. Open Doors, a non-denominational mission that aids persecuted Christians worldwide, released Tuesday its 30th annual “World Watch List,” which details anti-Christian attacks around the world. It said that religiously motivated violence that has been “nurtured” in Nigeria and is increasing in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali and Niger, “has swept across the region.” Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo have seen “signs of jihadist expansion” as well, Open Doors said. Overall, the number of Christians under…

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International Leadership of Texas (ILTexas), a free public charter school system, is building more campuses in the Colony Ridge communities south of Plum Grove. The International Leadership of Texas (ILTexas), a free public charter school system, is expanding in Liberty County, with two new campuses coming soon in the Colony Ridge communities south of Plum Grove. ILTexas, which boasts a 99.9 percent four-year high school graduation rate, opened its first campus in Liberty County – ILTexas Brigadier General Ramirez K-8 – in the 2022-2023 school year. Located at 1954 CR 5715, the first campus quickly filled to capacity. Now, due…

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Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism welcomes $10.15 million from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation to boost fertilizer supply to 850,000 African smallholder farmers | African Development Bank – Building today, a better Africa tomorrow Source link

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DUBLIN, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The “The Gas Industry in South Africa 2022” report has been added to  ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. This report on the gas industry in South Africa provides comprehensive information on production, demand, prices and trade statistics of various forms of gas and developments including exploration, discoveries and corporate actions. There is information on gas infrastructure and pipelines, gas to power and the role of gas in energy transition.  South Africa faces a number of challenges such as a lack of supply and insufficient gas infrastructure. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy wants to anchor gas…

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After decades of refusal and denial, the last year has seen a cascade of announcements by Western countries and their richly funded museums of their willingness to begin restoring art masterpieces seized or secreted out of Africa over the course of roughly the last century and a half. This has been a season of reckoning for one institution after another, from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, along with numerous others in Britain and Europe, with their directors publicly coming to terms with the problems inherent to continuing to possess the priceless cultural patrimony…

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A British woman has married an American man currently serving 20 years behind bars for rape. Gemma Morgan, 31, tied the knot with Leonel Vasquez, 31, inside a Virginia prison on December 29 — less than two years after they began exchanging messages online. “I still get the butterflies every time he calls or his name pops up on a message,” the Scotland-based bride told South West News Service of her jailbird hubby, who has been incarcerated since 2011. “Love can blossom no matter who you are,” Morgan further cooed, claiming she doesn’t care about her man’s criminal conviction as…

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On paper, Sounds Fishy is a slam dunk. I’m a fan of Big Potato projects and love its social deduction games, so this exercise in separating truth from lies must be a shoo-in as a new favorite. Right?Well, sort of. The team’s caught a clever idea in its net for Sounds Fishy, and there’s plenty of fun to be had as you try to trick your way to victory. However, something I can’t quite put my finger on holds it back from standing shoulder to shoulder with the ultimate party board games.What is it, and how does it work?Like many…

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