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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in two and a half years on Sunday as a decision was expected regarding Vucic’s participation in the BRICS summit this week. Serbia, a European Union candidate, has refused to impose sanctions on Russia, maintaining close and friendly relations. However, […]
Prabowo Subianto has officially been sworn in as Indonesia’s next president, taking his oath of office on Sunday morning to become the eighth leader of Southeast Asia’s largest democracy. The former defence minister succeeded his rival-turned-ally Joko Widodo, who stepped down after his constitutionally mandated two terms in office. Widodo’s eldest son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, […]
Editor’s note: We decided to keep our special correspondent anonymous because of concerns about their safety. At 82, Antonio Soares is blind and frail, carefully tended by his family. But time has not dimmed his memory of Sept. 7, 1983, the day that Indonesian soldiers arrived in Kraras, East Timor (also called Timor-Leste). Indonesia had occupied East Timor […]
There’s a lot of excitement and apprehension over the seemingly sudden proliferation of artificial intelligence in just about everything. Technological progress often outpaces regulation, and the next U.S. president will set the tone for AI policy. Scientific American’s associate technology editor Ben Guarino walks us through AI policies and plans from Kamala Harris and Donald […]
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil has expressed his willingness to ban online sports betting companies if regulatory measures fail. The president shared his thoughts on Thursday during a radio interview with Radio Metrópole in Salvador, Bahia. Lula emphasized the importance of protecting vulnerable families and children from the potential risks of online […]
Kenya’s Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was ousted from office on Thursday after being impeached in an unprecedented political saga that has gripped the nation. In a historic move, the Senate voted to impeach Gachagua on five of 11 charges, after a similar motion was overwhelmingly approved by the lower house National Assembly last week. The […]
VETERAN sports journalist, Dr Mumini Alao, has emerged the new president of the University of Lagos Muslim Alumni (UMA). Dr Alao, who takes over from Professor Khalid Adekoya, was unveiled alongside other members of the new national executive committee of the association on Sunday in Lagos at the 35th Annual General Meeting (AGM)/Congress of the […]
Kenyan senators have voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office despite his failure to testify at his impeachment trial after his lawyer said he had been taken to hospital. In one of the most dramatic days in Kenya’s recent political history, Gachagua had been due to appear in the Senate after lunch to […]
ISLAMABAD – President Asif Ali Zardari has underlined the importance of increasing economic cooperation and business-to-business relations between Pakistan and Turkmenistan for the mutual benefit of the two countries. He also called for greater linkages between the stock exchanges of the two brotherly countries to improve economic cooperation. The President expressed these views while […]
Admitting Ukraine into NATO before the end of the year could be a major part of Joe Biden’s legacy as president, Kiev’s envoy to the bloc, Natalia Galibarenko, has said. Vladimir Zelensky has pitched immediate membership in the US-led bloc as part of his ‘victory plan’, which he presented on Wednesday. Galibarenko explained the reasoning […]