•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 […]...
•Gray Cranes flying above northern Israeli Hula A person in the state of Missouri has become the first in the United States to test positive for bird flu without a known exposure to infected animals, authorities said yesterday. The adult patient, who has underlying conditions, was admitted to hospital on August 22, received antiviral medicatio...
•President Tinubu of Nigeria and Chinese President Xi Jinping Nigeria has signed a $3.3 billion agreement with China to develop the Brass Industrial Park and Methanol Complex. This was disclosed by the Ministry of Finance in a statement signed by the Director, Information and Public Relations, Mohammed Manga, yesterday. According to the statem...
•Fire outbreak A fire killed 17 boys when it tore through the dormitory in which they were sleeping at a boarding school in central Kenya in the early hours of today, police said. “We saw several children in there that had been burnt,” Phillip Gathogo, a local resident, told reporters. “I was just lucky to […]
•British flag Transport authorities in London have introduced a new public bus service linking two areas of the capital with large Jewish populations, as anti-Semitic incidents hit record levels. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he had been struck by the fear felt by Jews who told him they had received abuse when changing buses to […]
•Thailand’s new Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra Thailand swore Paetongtarn Shinawatra in as prime minister today, capping a month of political turmoil that saw her predecessor thrown out of office and the main opposition party dissolved. Paetongtarn, the daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, took the oath in a closed-door...
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