Ugandans have criticised an agreement with United States President Donald Trump’s administration to receive deportees from the US, questioning the lack of approval from the East African country’s parliament and suggesting the deal is a means to ease political pressure on President Yoweri Museveni. After facing sanctions from Washington thatRead More →
Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez return to the F1 grid after both drivers were dropped by their teams at the end of 2024. Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas will be back on the Formula One starting grid next season after Cadillac announced the signing of the multiple race winners asRead More →
When President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ivan Chenin left his comfortable life as a student in Moscow to deliver aid as a volunteer to the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics of eastern Ukraine, which Russia now claims as its “new territories”. After returningRead More →
Maputo, Mozambique – Down the main aisle of a bustling conference pavilion in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, Lucia Matimele stands surrounded by lush green leaves, peppers on the stalk, and bunches of ripe bananas. “We have land, we have water, we have farmers!” she enthuses. “What we need is investment.” MatimeleRead More →
Amnesty said more than 10,000 civilian structures were destroyed by Israel – many of them after the ceasefire. Amnesty International is leading calls for a probe into Israel’s widescale destruction of civilian property in southern Lebanon, saying those actions must be investigated as war crimes. The human rights organisation saidRead More →
Fund said decision against Caterpillar and five Israeli banks due to their contribution ‘to serious violations of rights in situations of war and conflict’. Norway’s $2-trillion wealth fund, the largest in the world, has divested from US construction equipment giant Caterpillar over the firm’s purported involvement in rights violations perpetratedRead More →
Here are the key events on day 1,279 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is how things stand on Tuesday, August 26: Fighting An 82-year-old woman was killed and three people were injured in a Russian attack on Kupiansk city, in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said. Russian attacksRead More →
BREAKINGBREAKING, US president says Lisa Cook removed from position ‘effective immediately’. United President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook amid unproven claims of mortgage fraud. In a letter posted on social media on Monday night, Trump said Cook was being sacked “effective immediately” inRead More →
Israel has struck Nasser Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip, killing at least 21 people, including five journalists, as well as medics and rescue workers, in the latest deliberate attack on civilians and the besieged enclave’s decimated health system. Monday’s attack, which killed journalists who worked for AlRead More →
The US president publicly acknowledged ‘real starvation’ last month. A global hunger monitor, backed by the United Nations, has declared famine in Gaza City and the surrounding areas. The confirmation that Israel has engineered a man-made catastrophe prompted outrage from many nations, with a notable exception. Neither the White HouseRead More →
