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Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for justice and the retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died at the age of 90.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the person was a traveler who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22 and tested positive on Nov. 29.

Dozens of cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus are being detected worldwide in travelers arriving from southern Africa.

South Africa's last apartheid president F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 85.

NBC's The Voice released a sneak peak of this week's blind auditions and the South African artist who spent part of the summer in the Utica area was in the spotlight. What song did she do? Did any of the judges turn around for her? If so, which judge did she select? The sneak preview was quite revealing. Watch it.

Prosecutors in South Africa are appealing the Oscar Pistorius verdict and sentence.

UPDATE: 09/11/2014 8:35am  The final verdict will not be read today.  Judge Masipa announces that court is adjourned for the day.

Radio show host Rush Limbaugh praised Nelson Mandela, the former South African president who died this week, as a man who suffered the horrors of apartheid and prison without letting it turn him "bitter and angry."

South African President Jacob Zuma has announced that Nelson Mandela, famed fighter of apartheid has died at the age of 95. The Townsquare News Network reports: Current South African President Jacob Zuma issued a statement saying, “The founding president of our democratic nation has departed...

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