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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico AP 鈥?Voters across Puerto Rico on Tuesday are choosing new leaders they hope can help heal a U.S. territory wracked by corruption, hurricanes, earthquakes stanley cup and the coronavirus pandemic.Voters stood in lines across the island under a harsh sun, some nibbling on cookies or fanning themselves. Some arrived up to three hours early, eager to participate in an election featuring six gubernatorial candidates.An elderly man slowly walked past one long line, raised his cane and shouted, Let vote for our homeland! as those around him cheered.Among those candidates is Pedro Pierluisi of the pro-statehood N stanley cup ew Progressive Party, the territory former non-voting representative in Congress who briefly served as governor following huge street protests last year that led to the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rossell贸.WATCH: Puerto Rico gears up to vote in statehood referendum this NovemberA majority of polls gave Pierluisi a slight lead over Carlos Delgado of the Popular Democratic Party, which supports the islands territorial status. Lagging behind were Juan Dalmau of the stanley cup Puerto Rican Independence Party, Alexandra L煤garo of Citizen Victory Movement, C茅sar V谩zquez of the Dignity Project and independent candidate Eliezer Molina.Among those in line was 61-year-old Mar铆a Peralta, a maid whose main concern is public transportation because she sometimes must walk 45 minutes to work. Nearby stood Miguel 脕ngel Vel谩zquez, a 64-year-old handyman who said the candid Flvg Terror Hits Nairobi Mall and Fuel-Efficient Cars Mean Less for Road Repairs
JOHANNESBURG 鈥?Desmond Tutu, South Africas Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of the country past racist policy of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at salomon 90. South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country moral conscience.Tutu worked passionately, tirelessly and non-violently to tear down apartheid 鈥?South Africas brutal, decades-long regime of oppression against its Black majority that only ended in 1994.The buoyant, blunt-sp yeezy oken clergyman used his pulpit as the first Black bishop of Johannesburg and later the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town as well as frequent public demonstrations to galvanize public opinion against racial inequity, both at home and globally.Nicknamed the Arch, Tutu was diminutive, with an impi nike dunk sh sense of humor, but became a towering figure in his nations history, comparable to fellow Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela, a prisoner during white rule who became South Africas first Black president. Tutu and Mandela shared a commitment to building a better, more equal South Africa.Upon becoming president in 1994, Mandela appointed Tutu to be chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which uncovered the abuses of the apartheid system.Tutu death on Sunday is another chapter of bereavement in our nations farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Afri