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Swiss Bus Crash Kills 28 Tousists, Including 22 Children

A bus crash in Switzerland has killed 28 Belgian and Dutch tourists, 22 of them children, as they returned from a ski trip.

(REUTERS) Geneva -The vehicle was travelling towards Sion when it veered to the right, hit a kerb and smashed into a concrete wall of a tunnel in the Swiss Alps, near the border with Italy.

Another 24 children were injured in the crash.

Six adults, including the two drivers of the coach, died in the accident.

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The Mushroom Industry Helping Ugandan Women To Grow Independent

To meet the need, Uganda trains farmers to grow the nutrient-rich fungi. Many beneficiaries are women seeking financial independence.

Photo of ​Asimwe Novia selecting mushrooms at the Mushroom Training and Resource Centre in Kyanamira, Kabale district, Uganda.

Selecting mushrooms at the Mushroom Training and Resource Centre in Kyanamira, Uganda.

Edna Namara

BUSHENYI — Dorothy Basemera Otim loves a hot bowl of wild mushroom gravy. The retired Ugandan news editor and television personality says for as long as she can remember, she has looked forward to the annual season when suddenly mushrooms spring out of the ground. But lately, that has been rare and unpredictable.

“In the last three years mushrooms have come twice and in different seasons,” she says, as she bends over to pluck some.

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