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Johannesburg council proceedings disrupted (eNCA)

JOHANNESBURG - Some drama in the Johannesburg City Council on Wednesday morning. Opposition parties disrupted the sitting, refusing to allow proceedings to ...

So he's complicit to this crime. "Councillors are not doing this to frustrate him. He's the one who is doing this, and instigating this frustration.

Short hair, don't care: Saudi working women embrace cropped locks (eNCA)

As more women join the workforce, a central plank of government efforts to remake the Saudi economy, many describe the "boy" cut as a practical, ...

"The demand for it has increased, especially after women entered the labour market. "People like to see femininity in a woman's appearance," she said. It "gives me strength and self-confidence... Nouf, who works in a cosmetics store and preferred not to give her family name, described the message of the "boy" cut this way: "We want to say that we exist, and our role in society does not differ much from that of men." As more women join the workforce, a central plank of government efforts to remake the Saudi economy, many describe the "boy" cut as a practical, professional alternative to the longer styles they might have preferred in their pre-working days. As more Saudi women join the workforce, a central plank of government efforts to remake the economy, many describe the 'boy' cut as a practical, professional alternative to longer hair styles

Monkeypox vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic ready to meet demand (eNCA)

As the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, Danish company Bavarian Nordic has seen its order book fill up as the usually ...

"But I can say we have procurement requests from all over the world. "With the current demand we can easily supply the global market. The United States has so far recommended the vaccination of people who have been in close contact with an infected person, while France has recommended a single dose for contact cases in risk groups who were vaccinated for smallpox before 1980. The value of the contracts hasn't been disclosed either, but for Bavarian Nordic it has clearly been a windfall: it raised its 2022 full-year outlook four times in three weeks. According to Sorensen, the vaccine is in stock "in many countries" and can also be used against monkeypox, both before and after exposure to the virus. We have a couple of million doses in bulk that we can put into vials and make sure that the current outbreak is handled," he told AFP in an interview.

Greek state TV mocked for gasoline theft 'tips' (eNCA)

Greece's state TV was mocked over a segment that showed viewers how to siphon gasoline from cars as fuel prices soar.

commented one user on Twitter. "Are you guys in your right mind? "It's not something terribly complicated...

Christian-born female rabbi shakes up Jewish Orthodoxy (eNCA)

A woman born in France to a Christian family was not an obvious candidate to become a trailblazing Orthodox rabbi in Israel, but 40-year-old former ...