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Botswana offers to send 20,000 elephants to Germany, saying it should try looking after them instead of criticizing
Botswana's president Mokgweetsi Masisi said he wants to send 20,000 elephants to Germany to stop cr…
Mikhaila Friel
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3 travel agents for the world's wealthiest people share exactly where the 1% are traveling this summer, from Botswana to the Côte d'Azur
Goodbye, Mykonos. The 1% are jetting off to Paros and the Galapagos islands for "surf-and-turf trav…
Mark Ellwood
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EU member states agree to ban flights from southern Africa over new coronavirus variant 'Omicron' rapidly spreading there
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said it was important that Europeans "act very s…
Alexandra Ma
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UK suspending flights from 6 African countries over new coronavirus variant fears: 'Our scientists are deeply concerned'
The UK is suspending flights from several African countries over a newly identified coronavirus var…
Blake Dodge
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Ex-NRA head Wayne LaPierre and his wife secretly turned elephants they shot in Botswana into home decor: report
Taxidermy records obtained by The New Yorker show the elephants' feet were turned into home decor s…
Lauren Frias
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Queen Elizabeth had no idea what a vodka luge was at Prince William's 21st birthday, but why would she
"She looked at me and said, 'What is that?' And I said, 'Ma'am, it's a vodka luge,'" party planner …
Rebecca Cohen,Samantha Grindell
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The mysterious sudden death of hundreds of elephants in Botswana is unresolved as latest tests prove inconclusive
Since early May, 300 dead elephants have been discovered collapsed — often headfirst — near waterho…
Julian Kossoff
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Hundreds of dead elephants have been found in Botswana, and officials say a novel disease could be to blame
At least 350 elephant carcasses have been found in Botswana over the past two months, conservationi…
Ashley Collman
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Botswana's investigation into mysterious death of over 350 elephants hampered by COVID-19
Authorities in Botswana, home to a third of Africa's declining elephant population, are struggling…
PTI
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Colombia wants to deport 70 hippos from a group that once belonged to drug lord Pablo Escobar because they won’t stop breeding
Colombia's proposed plan would send at least 70 hippos that live near the drug lord's former ranch …
Joshua Zitser
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A small asteroid that hit Botswana took 23 million years to get here from the asteroid belt, astronomers found
In 2018, an asteroid struck Botswana. Astronomers traced its origins to an ancient space rock in th…
Aylin Woodward
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Video shows NRA's Wayne LaPierre shooting but failing to kill an elephant for NRA-sponsored TV show that never aired
The program never aired due to concerns the footage could cause a public relations crisis, accordin…
Erin Snodgrass
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Researchers figured out why hundreds of elephants dropped dead in Botswana this year: Their water was poisoned by algae
Months after 330 elephants inexplicably died in Botswana, officials identified the cause of the die…
Aylin Woodward
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Botswana's government is stalling efforts to get to the bottom of 350 mysterious elephant deaths, conservationists say
Botswana officials waited weeks to look into the sudden death of at least 350 elephants which have …
Mia Jankowicz
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Hundreds of elephants in Botswana are mysteriously dropping dead next to watering holes
390 elephants have dropped dead in Botswana, and conservationists can't explain why. Testing is nee…
Mia Jankowicz
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Billions of dollars of unsold diamonds are piling up around the world because no one wants to buy jewels in the middle of a pandemic
The five largest diamond producers have perhaps stockpiled "excess inventories" of about $3.5 billi…
Shalini Nagarajan
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No change in transmissibility of Omicron BA.4, BA.5, or Omicron BA.6: WHO
While there have been a few cases of new Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5, so far there is no cha…
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De Beers contributes USD 25,00,000 aid to Botswana, Namibia to fight COVID-19
"With our contribution of USD 2,500,000, De Beers is supporting the unprecedented efforts of healt…
PTI
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Biden plans to lift travel restrictions on southern African countries
The Omicron coronavirus variant has swept through the US since South Africa identified it. It now a…
Jacob Shamsian
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People with the Omicron variant have 'extremely mild' symptoms and haven't had to be hospitalized yet, says the South African doctor who first reported it
Patients have reported feeling "extremely fatigued" but do not have a cough, Dr. Angelique Coetzee …