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New Savannah charter school delayed by construction costs New Savannah charter school delayed by construction costs By Blair Caldwell | May 18, 2021 at 4:59 PM EDT - Updated May 18 at 6:01 PM SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A charter school had hopes to open this fall but is now delaying that start date because of complications from the COVID-19 pandemic. Savannah Exploratory Charter Academy (SECA) had 150 students apply for the 21-22 school year, but now they are making other plans. “This is certainly not a situation where we’re folding up our tent and going home. We’re committed to making...

Rome, Italy, May 12, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA). For Gulchehra Hoja, the Chinese government’s systematic repression of Uyghur Muslims is personal: her mother, father, brother, and more than 20 relatives are detained in “reeducation camps” in Xinjiang. “Last week, I learned that one of my relatives … had died in Chinese prison. His body has not been returned to his family,” Hoja said May 11 at a virtual event hosted by the U.S. embassy to the Vatican. He was a “59-year-old father of three children, taken to the camp in 2017, and later sentenced to 19 years in prison just for studying ...

May 12, 2021 editor “We are facing a genocide in every aspect of life,” Uyghur journalist and activist Gulchehra Hoja told the event. “I speak for my mother, my father, my brother, and the millions desperate to be safe.” ROME – Without even logging in, a physician and human rights activist named Harri Uyghur managed to steal the show during an on-line event Tuesday sponsored by the US Embassy to the Holy See on the plight of Uyghur people in China, offering a powerful reminder of the human impact of repression. Uyghur, born in the Chinese province of Xinjiang into the ethnic minorit...

Taunton Magistrates' Courts in St John's Road, Taunton A PROLIFIC thief has been jailed for more than six months for a string of shoplifting offences. Daniel Andrew Westcott, 30, who gave his address as a homeless hostel in Taunton, was sent down at Taunton Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty to four offences. He was sent to prison for a total of eight weeks for the thefts from Tesco, Tesco Express and Boots. Westcott received a further 20 weeks after admitting breaching a suspended sentence order imposed for eight theft offences. He was also ordered to pay £475.15 compensatio...