Influential US economist Jeffrey Sachs wants Trump to give relief to families hit by tariffs
The tariffs were “illegal, unfair and detrimental to the American people,” and it was not the foreign countries but the American families, who were paying for the tariffs, Sachs, a professor of economics and director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, wrote in an opinion piece published on the US-based news website Common Dreams.
Kenya’s chief justice launches new manual to boost prosecution of terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, in conjunction with bilateral partners, developed the structured curriculum to enhance the adjudication of terrorism cases in African countries grappling with the menace.
Freedom is coming: How Iraq’s Saddam Hussein neighbour Zainab survived violence to build women’s most powerful tool in the world
In 1991, at age 19, Zainab escaped Iraq through an arranged marriage to an older Iraqi man living in the United States. Her family saw it as salvation – a way out before the Gulf War made leaving impossible. Zainab thought it was freedom. She was wrong. The marriage that saved her from Saddam’s Iraq became its own prison. Her husband was controlling, isolating and abusive. She’d escaped one authoritarian regime only to land in another – this one domestic, private, and just as suffocating.
Iran, US to resume talks amid hardening military posture as observers say they ‘yielded encouraging signals’
In a phone call on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi stressed the importance of “constructive engagement and using the path of dialogue” to achieve a sustainable nuclear agreement, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported.
World’s largest annual human migration witnessed 258 million since start of 2026 Chinese Spring Festival
China’s railways have witnessed 258 million passenger trips so far during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush this year, as the travel period passed its halfway mark, the national railway operator said on Sunday. On February 21, the 20th day of the 2026 Spring Festival travel season, about 17.19 million...
Kenya’s Silicon Savannah welcomes African Centre for Technology as it starts construction of its headquarters
ACTS’ investment further strengthens Konza’s growing ecosystem of academic and research institutions, including the Open University of Kenya (OUK), Riara University and the Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kenya-AIST), reinforcing Konza’s positioning as a national and regional hub for advanced skills, research, and innovation-led growth.
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