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Boy stranded by pricey Olympic bus fares invited to opening ceremony

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — An 11-year-old boy who was left stranded in the snow after a local bus fare was hiked ahead of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics will take part in Friday’s opening ceremony in a symbolic role, a spokesperson said. The boy, identified as Riccardo, boarded a bus home from school last week in the Cortina d’Ampezzo area with a 2.50-euro ticket, the usual fare. But the operating company had raised the cost to 10 euros ahead of the Games, which run from Feb. 6-22, and he was told to get off when he could…

Tidianes invited to celebrate Gamou at home due to coronavirus

No pilgrimage to Tidian this year. In Senegal, believers in the country's largest Muslim Brotherhood will celebrate Gamou at home due to the health crisis. Scheduled between October 29 and 30, the event has celebrated "Maouloud" - the birth of the Prophet Muhammad - since 1902 in the city of Tivaouane 90 km east of Dakar. as reported from Dakar, During a press conference on Tuesday, October 13, the Caliph's general in Tidianes, Serigne Babacar Sy Mansour, on behalf of the religious leader, invited to a celebration of…