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Washington alarmed while two Iranian warships crossed the Atlantic by mid June but the mainstream press did not react. 

Cape Town, July 3.– Both Iranian warships were sighted when crossing in front of Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, on the night of 9/10 June 2021 on their way to the open Atlantic Ocean.

The Iranian ships, the destroyer Sahand and the intelligence-gathering vessel Makran, reached the south Atlantic on June 11th, likely en route to Venezuela, which has increasingly become an economic and military partner of Tehran. Iran has friendly relations with Cuba, where the ships could make a port call. The Sahand is able to voyage for five months without resupply.

However, the Iranian navy ships originally headed toward Venezuela changed course on June 16th steaming northeast up to the west coast of Africa, U.S. officials said.

Pretoria, June 29 (DP.net).– The Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu accompanied with Deputy Ambassador of Cuba in South Africa introduced Cuban engineers who will be working on the country's water system in Pretoria.

Employing 25 Cuban engineers to assist with water-infrastructure maintenance at a cost of R54.9-million for three years has allegedly resulted in South African, government-educated scientists being cast aside, as revealed in South Africa newspaper Mail & Guardian.

• Four churches have so far burned to the ground during the last few days, two of them last Monday on National Indigenous People's Day. Many in the community are Catholic Church members and are very upset about the blazes.

• It is suspected that the fires are due to a feeling of revenge for the many years of child abuse in these schools, although very few of these boarding schools were run by Catholic orders but almost all were public schools and all of them were under government supervision.

British Columbia, June 27.– Two more Catholic churches burned down in indigenous communities in western Canada early on Saturday.

In Iraq, pro-Iranian militias are killing democracy activists and the government is doing nothing about it. The power of the militias is endangering the country - and the entire region.

Baghdad, June 26.– The fear is like a burdock. It sticks to him, no matter how hard he tries, he can't shake it off. Whenever he leaves the house, he looks behind him to see if anyone is following him; on every street corner he checks whether a suspicious car is parked anywhere. Sometimes, says Mohammed al-Temimi, a black SUV with no license plate chases him. Just a week ago, two men who looked like militiamen, muscular and with shaved heads, bumped into him in front of a falafall shop. "They wanted to make it clear to me that they were watching me."