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Aberdeen is launching an ambitious bid to revive its struggling centre. Could it offer lessons for other high streets?
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Aberdeen is launching an ambitious bid to revive its struggling centre. Could it offer lessons for other high streets?

A court ruled that a parade by a Protestant group could pass through a largely Catholic area for the first time in three decades. Protesters blocked the route.
Megan SpeciaDemocratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland)Demonstrations, Protests and Riots

Two troops of chacma baboons are breaking into homes and shops but animal rights activists insist coexistence is the answerCape Town’s city council has said it will “imminently” round up two baboon troops coming into repeated conflict with residents. The animals will be sterilised and permanently moved to a newly constructed sanctuary. The plan has been fiercely criticised by animal rights activists, who say the monkeys should remain roaming freely, and that less destructive options have not been properly considered.Cape Town’s baboon problem has been brewing since the 2000s, after the city stopped culling troops in the late 1990s after pressure from the public. But in the past two years it has reached boiling point. A 2025 census found that the population had grown by a third since 2000, from 360 baboons to 493, now living in 12 managed troops. Continue reading...
Gloria DickieAnimal welfareSouth Africa

Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
Ethiopia’s army has reportedly recaptured the strategic town of Sekota from Tigrayan forces as fighting spreads.
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