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Today β€” 26 June 2024Main stream

Goma games: how chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures

βœ‡The Guardian
By: Arlette Bashizi， Reuters
26 June 2024 at 03:00

Chess players from Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are introducing children traumatised by violence to the joys of playing the board game

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Β© Photograph: Arlette Bashizi/Reuters

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Β© Photograph: Arlette Bashizi/Reuters

Before yesterdayMain stream

Ed Dwight Goes to Space 63 Years After Training as 1st Black Astronaut

βœ‡NYT: Science
By: Amanda Holpuch
19 May 2024 at 18:34
Edward Dwight was among the first pilots that the United States was training to send to space in 1961, but he was passed over. On Sunday, he finally made it on a Blue Origin flight.

Β© Blue Origin, via Agence France-Presse β€” Getty Images

Edward Dwight was one of six people who went to space aboard the Mission NS-25 crew capsule from Blue Origin on Sunday. Upon exiting, he raised his arm and said, β€œLong time coming.”
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