President Museveni tells off World Bank over funding cuts to arm-twist Uganda to accept homosexuality
In response to the World Bank’s decision, Uganda’s state minister for foreign affairs Okello Oryem queried the consistency of the move compared to other countries.
Two months of haggling ends with Spurs accepting Bayern’s $110m bid for Harry Kane
Bayern want Kane and Kane has appeared to want to move to Bayern. The talks wouldn’t have lasted this long if the striker hadn’t expressed a strong interest in joining the perennial German champions. It’s been believed throughout the summer that Kane doesn’t have an interest in entering negotiations to join any other side this window.
Uganda’s nuclear plants to be built by South Korea and Russia will generate 15,400mw
According to President Yoweri Museveni, two nuclear power plants built by Russia and South Korea would provide 15,400 megawatts of electricity for Uganda. The Ugandan president claims that one unit would produce 7,000 MW and another 8,400 MW, however, he did not specify a completion date or a source of...
People jump into ocean as tongues of wildfire consume Maui island resort city, kill 36
At least 36 people have died after wildfires, fanned by winds from a faraway hurricane, devastated much of the resort city Lahaina on Hawaii’s Maui island, the Maui County said in a statement late on Wednesday. Multiple neighbourhoods were burnt to the ground as the western side of the island...
Ecuadorian drug lords assassinate a presidential candidate who spoke against graft, narcotics
An Ecuadorian presidential candidate known for speaking up against cartels and corruption was shot and killed on Wednesday at a political rally in the capital, amid a startling wave of gang-driven violence in the South American country. President Guillermo Lasso confirmed the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio and suggested organised crime...
Security threats forces Biden to order ban on certain US tech investments in China
A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington said the White House had not heeded “China’s repeated expression of deep concerns” about the plan. The spokesman said more than 70,000 US companies do business in China. The restrictions will hurt both Chinese and American businesses, interfere with normal cooperation and reduce investor confidence in the US, he said.
Breakthrough as new study finds correlation between antibiotic resistance and air pollution
A paper published in The Lancet last year attributed 1.27 million deaths worldwide in 2019 to antimicrobial resistance – more people than perished from malaria or AIDS that year.
The United Nations Environmental Programme warned in July that “if unchecked, [antimicrobial resistance] could shave $3.4 trillion off GDP annually and push 24 million more people into extreme poverty in the next decade.”
Filthy wages: Why crypto’s promise as a means of dancing around banking system crashed
Without a banking partner, crypto firms cannot accept dollar deposits in return for services, or manage the conversion of crypto to dollars for clients, or pay their employees and vendors – they cannot function. The viability of the plan to develop a parallel financial system free of intermediaries is dependent, therefore, on a rapidly disintegrating truce with those same intermediaries: the banks and payments firms.
Blacklisted by banks and payment apps, adult industry gets door slammed on it by cryptocurrency
In the US, full-service sex work (also known as prostitution) is illegal in every state but Nevada, but pornography and online sex work are legal under the First Amendment. Irrespective of this distinction, banking access has been a problem for the entire sex work community since at least the 1960s, says Mike Stabile, director of public affairs at the FSC, and has only become more acute.
