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CURLING: Canada, Denmark and United States claim final play-off places and qualify for Beijing 2022 05/08/21 Calgary, Canada – During day eight of the LGT World Women’s Curling Championship 2021 Canada, Denmark and United States secured the final three places in the play-off stage and also confirmed their National Olympic Committees a spot in the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games women’s event. The six teams who have qualified for the play-offs in ranking order are: Switzerland, RCF, Sw...

January 30, 2020 (JUBA) - South Sudan will switch to a new time zone starting from 1 February 2021, the government has officially announced. In (...)

The East African Friday January 29 2021 Summary Once the change becomes effective, South Sudan will no longer use East African Time, but will be in the same time zone as Egypt, Chad and Sudan. Advertisement South Sudan plans to reset its clock, moving back one hour on February 1. The change, which moves the country an hour behind its key trading partners Uganda and Kenya, is meant to align it to the time zone based on its geographical location. “The National Ministry of Labour informs all the...

South Sudan government has announced it will switch to a new time zone of February 1. The labor undersecretary Mary Hillary Wani Pitia said in a written announcement that the eastern African country will shift back one hour from the Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) +3 to UTC+2, adding that the new time zone is based on South Sudan’s location on the globe. “This means that the current time will be set back by one hour, the current 1:00 am will be set to 00:00 am, effective 1st February 2021,...

EU countries clamp down on UK travel over new coronavirus strain - live updates A growing list of countries worldwide, including Germany and France, are deciding to ban air traffic from the UK following reports of a new coronavirus strain. Follow the latest updates here. This live feed is now closed, catch up on the latest updates here. Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Romania and Ireland have banned all passenger flights from the UK The clampdown comes after UK detected a new...