Giant cinematic spectacles – many of which were pushed back into 2021 during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic – will vie with auteur films that gained tractions on streaming sites in a diverse race for Hollywood's biggest awards, to be handed out in late March.
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Glaciers in the Andes Mountains of South America, for example, were found to store 23 percent less fresh water compared to earlier estimates, they wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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The rules have stranded nationals overseas, split families, hammered the country's multi-billion-dollar tourist industry and prompted often bitter debates about Australia's openness to the rest of the world.
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Madagascar was already reeling from a tropical storm which killed 55 people weeks earlier, and the latest extreme weather event came as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the continent is "bearing both the brunt and the cost" of global warming.
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Dante Kade Liang allegedly stabbed 17-year-old high school pupil, Hlompho Mbetse, over the weekend.
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The boy had fallen down a narrow, 32-metre (100-foot) dry well last Tuesday, sparking a complex earth-moving operation to try to reach him without triggering a landslide.
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Its leader Herman Mashaba told journalists at a briefing on Monday on the state of their coalitions that it seemed there was no commitment to building a stable coalition in the city east of Johannesburg.
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Over 350 people were killed during the anarchy in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, with businesses looted and destroyed, leading to a loss of over R50 billion in the economy.
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Maya is the only woman amongst four shortlisted candidates interviewed by the commission to be Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng's successor after his term came to an end in October last year.
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Hlompho Mbetse was stabbed to death outside a nightclub on Wessel Road in Rivonia, Johannesburg.
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