Tanzania’s president reallocates independence festivities budget to special school infrastructure
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has cancelled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday and directed that the budget instead be used to build dormitories for children with special needs. The 61st Independence Day event was to cost $445,000, money that will be used to build eight dormitories in primary schools...
US gun violence: Former President Obama revisits ‘single darkest day of my presidency’
At an event marking the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, former President Barack Obama reflected on what he still considers the worst day he spent in office. “I consider December 14, 2012, the single darkest day of my presidency,” Obama said Tuesday...
‘Floating’ Cristiano Ronaldo denies 530,000,000 two-year petrodollars offer from Saudi club
Cristiano Ronaldo has rejected advances from the Australian A-League as the former Man United star edges closer to deciding his next destination. Ronaldo is without a club heading into the January transfer window. He was let go by Manchester United last month after his full interview with Piers Morgan aired....
President Kiir endorsed by South Sudan ruling SPLM party to vie for the top seat in 2024 polls
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, who has been in office for over a decade, will run for president in elections due to be held in about two years, his party said on Tuesday. Oil-rich South Sudan secured independence from its northern neighbour Sudan in 2011 but plunged into civil war...
US navy intercepts fishing trawler trafficking 50 tonnes of weapons in Gulf of Oman
US naval forces in the Middle East have intercepted a fishing trawler smuggling more than 50 tonnes of ammunition rounds, fuses and propellants for rockets in the Gulf of Oman along a maritime route from Iran to Yemen. Navy personnel operating from expeditionary sea-base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3)...
M23 militias want direct contact with EAC facilitator Uhuru Kenyatta and DRC President Tshisekedi
M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reiterated their call for a meeting with former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and have vowed to continue to respect a two-week-old ceasefire. Kenyatta is the East African Community (EAC) facilitator in the Nairobi-led peace talks that are aimed at...
Missing $80 trillion reported by Switzerland-based BIS triggers fears of steep global economic meltdown
The world faces a staggering financial meltdown with potential losses exceeding the total number of US dollars in circulation. This warning does not come from some headline-grabbing doomsayer but arguably the most respectable financial body of all, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). This is a body of central bankers...
There’re no laws of nature, what we’ve are consistent maths theories that seem to match parts of nature
I was recently reading an old article by string theorist Robbert Dijkgraaf in Quanta Magazine entitled There are no laws of physics. You might think it a bit odd for a physicist to argue that there are no laws of physics but I agree with him. In fact, not only...
Whistle-blower details how FBI, other US agencies trail him to keep a leash on Covid origin
A scientist who believes that Covid was created at a US-funded lab in Wuhan has accused the FBI of following him with drones and breaking into his home in an effort to silence him. Dr Andrew Huff, a former vice president at EcoHealth Alliance, claimed that as he started to...
‘Terrified by what I saw, Covid was genetically engineered’, says American scientist who worked at Wuhan lab
An American scientist who worked at a research laboratory in Wuhan, China, has claimed that the novel coronavirus was a “genetically engineered agent” that leaked from the US-funded facility. It was reportedly exposed by Dr Andrew Huff, an epidemiologist and former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, in The Truth About...
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