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  • Early on Thursday, 73 students were injured and at least 16 students killed at a girls' boarding school in central Kenya.
  • The vital Strait of Hormuz, according to US President Donald Trump, "must be open to everyone" and "no one can control it."
  • A major portions of southern Lebanon has been declared a "combat zone" by the Israeli military.
  • Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that American bombings in the country's southern Hormozgan region broke the ceasefire.
  • The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health claims that Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday left at least 31 persons dead and 40 injured.
  • Due to the Ebola outbreak, Ugandan authorities announced on Wednesday that the country's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been closed.

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Lost in Congestion

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Bogota, the capital of Colombia, you can spend 272 hours a year stuck in traffic. That is equivalent to 34 working days. These are the world’s most congested cities

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