🌏 Riots In South Africa, Flooding In Germany And A Badass Egyptian Mom Teaching Men How To Box

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Mass riots and looting have broken out across South Africa after former president Jacob Zuma turned himself into serve a 15-month sentence for contempt of court.

• Footage of a mom in Durban throwing her two-year-old baby off a burning building to safety during the riots has gone viral.
• 79-year-old Zuma, who ruled from 2009 to 2018, was sentenced in June after he refused to show up to an inquiry investigating alleged corruption during his time in office.
• After he turned himself, protests broke out in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday July 10 and soon turned into mass looting, arson and riots in Durban and Johannesburg, fueled by job layoffs and economic inequality worsened by the pandemic.

Also happening around the world

• 🇩🇪 Catastrophic floods in Germany and Belgium have left more than 100 people dead and thousands more missing. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing.
• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England lost to Italy at the Euro 2020 finals, and the three Black England players who missed the penalty kick became the targets of racial abuse on social media.
• 🇨🇺 Thousands of Cubans took to the streets in some of the biggest demonstrations against the Communist government in decades. Protesters voiced their anger toward the government’s handling of the country’s economic crisis – which has led to food and medicine shortages and daily blackouts – and the coronavirus pandemic.
• 🇮🇶 A fire broke out at a COVID hospital in Iraq, killing at least 62 people and leaving more than 100 injured. Most of the victims were patients and their family members who had been looking after them due to a lack of healthcare workers.
• 🇪🇸 Spain’s most followed TikToker, 19-year-old Naim Darrechi, has caused an outcry after saying he often avoids using a condom during sex by telling his sexual partners he is sterile when they ask him to use protection. He is now being investigated for his sexual deception as his actions would constitute sexual abuse under current Spanish law.

Meet Sabah Saqr, a working mother who teaches men how to box twice a week in a small gym room in Beni Suef, Egypt.

• “I started boxing by accident. I didn’t like it because I was worried about my face, about being hit,” Saqr said. But her trainer started training her after he saw her fence jumping and was impressed by her strength, power and energy.
• After winning several championships and over 10 medals, two years ago, she decided to stop competing and start coaching.
• Her students have mentioned that her serious approach to training, as well as her hard training methods, have helped her gain respect and trust from men.

With lockdowns forcing conveyor belt sushi restaurants to close in Japan, a dad decided to build his own mini restaurant at home to surprise his six-year-old son.

More Good News For Your Weekend

• 🇬🇧 After a mural of Black England football player Marcus Rashford was vandalized by racist messages following England’s loss to Italy at the Euro 2020 finals, people in Manchester, where Rashford grew up, covered the mural in hundreds of messages of support, love and solidarity ❤️

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