•Trump walks away during a commercial break at the presidential debate yesterday Minutes after being hustled by Kamala Harris during their US presidential debate yesterday, Donald Trump appeared in front of reporters to get the last word, reports AFP. As the debate drew to a close, cries of surprise went up at the entrance to […]
•Trump and Harris Former President Donald Trump last night repeated a claim that migrants arriving in the US after fleeing prisons and mental institutions will be deported if elected again on November 5. He said “We have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums,” Trump [&he...
Kenya’s High Court has put a stop to a contentious deal involving India’s Adani Group, which was set to take over Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). The decision, celebrated by critics, is being called “a victory for the Kenyan people,” reports AFP. The Adani Group had been in discussions with the Kenyan government to invest […...
•Swiss leading Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who faces a string of allegations in Switzerland and France, was found guilty of rape by a Swiss appeals court today, overturning an earlier lower court acquittal. After being acquitted last year, a Geneva appeal court said it had found the 62-year-old former Oxford Un...
•UK prison Thousands of prisoners in British jails were due to be released early today, as part of government moves to ease overcrowding. Recently released figures showed that the prison population in England and Wales was at its highest-ever level, reports AFP. But with concern about released prisoners reoffending, the government insisted tha...
•Australian PM, Anthony Albanese Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a plan to ban children from using social media. The prime minister today said that the government would introduce legislation in 2024 to enforce a minimum age for access to social media and other relevant digital platforms, reports Xinhua/NAN. “We know s...
•Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala The World Trade Organisation said today that open trade alone was not enough to reduce inequalities between wealthy and developing nations and more was needed to help poorer countries. The WTO’s 2024 report on global trade looked at the role that commerce has played to narrow the gap between economies since its [&hellip...
•PHOTO (From left): Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s President Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov raise their arms as they pose for a group photograph, at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg. Foremost Professor of Political Scien...
•Protesters in France More than 100,000 left-wing demonstrators rallied across France yesterday to protest against the nomination of the centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister and denounce President Emmanuel Macron’s “power grab”. The interior ministry said 110,000 people took to the streets nationwide, including 26,000 in Paris, while ...
•Taxi driver Napoleon Osorio Napoleon Osorio is proud of being the first taxi driver to have accepted payment in bitcoin in the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency legal tender: El Salvador. He credits President Nayib Bukele’s decision to bank on bitcoin three years ago with changing his life, reports AFP. “Before […]...
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