Malawi military aircraft goes missing moments after leaving from Lilongwe airport with vice president on board
Vice President Saulos Chilima had been facing corruption charges over allegations that he received money in return for influencing the awarding of government contracts, but the charges were surprisingly dropped by prosecutors last month. That led to criticism that Chakwera’s administration was not taking a hard enough stance against graft.
New study in Kenya’s Samburu national park finds African elephants call each unique names
Researchers tested their results by playing recordings to individual elephants, who responded more energetically, ears flapping and trunk lifted, to recordings that contained their names. Sometimes elephants entirely ignored vocalizations addressed to others.
In first-ever conviction, Spanish court sentences Valencia fans to nine months in jail for racially abusing Madrid’s Vinicius Jr
Valencia fully cooperated with the investigations and had already banned the fans shortly after the incident at its stadium. But no one had ever gone to trial in Spain for racially abusing a player and many similar cases of abuse like the one faced by Vinícius had been shelved by prosecutors in the past.
Militants allied with Islamic State reportedly kill 80 civilians, displace hundreds in eastern DRC
Eastern Congo has struggled with armed violence for decades as more than 120 groups fight for power, land and valuable mineral resources, while others try to defend their communities. Some armed groups have been accused of mass killings.
Doctors Without Borders: Sudan’s notorious paramilitary group loots a main Darfur hospital
Most patients and the medical team, including Doctors Without Borders staff, managed to flee the shooting. It was not immediately clear whether there were casualties from the attack, according to the aid group.
By using dollar as the currency of political and economic sanctions US dares world to find an alternative
Over the past three weeks, I have been asking financial services executives, global investors and other experts in Asia and the United States how long they think the Americans can keep at it without meaningful blowback. Several of the sources requested anonymity to speak candidly about the situation.
Serious integrity questions raised about why a journal retracted study showing Covid vaccines may cause cancer
Subsequent research and case studies have largely validated the findings of the retracted study conducted by Mei and Hui Jiang, of Stockholm University in Sweden.
Central African Republic suspends Chinese Daqing SARL gold mining company for alleged links to armed groups
The Central African Republic has been in conflict since 2013, when predominantly Muslim rebels seized power and forced the President Francois Bozize from office. Mostly Christian militias fought back. A 2019 peace deal only lessened the fighting and six of the 14 armed groups that signed later left the agreement. The Coalition of Patriots for Change was founded in 2020 in the aftermath of the agreement.
The big ‘Techno Foods’ lie: Artificial foods won’t feed the world, they are marketed to make tech entrepreneurs richer
Lab meat (or cellular meat) is not “fake” meat but is an attempt to grow real meat in a laboratory. Stem cells are taken from a live animal and placed in a man-made soup of genetically modified growth hormones and other synthetic “nutrients” which are brewed together in steel vats or bioreactors.
EU election widens ideological fissures on back of radical swing as far-right births new political order
The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) will be the biggest political family in the new legislature, gaining five seats to field 189 deputies, a centralised exit poll showed.
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