UAE wants to reduce over-reliance on oil as it signs trade deals with Malaysia, Kenya, and New Zealand
Zeyoudi said Kenya will be a gateway to East Africa for the UAE and would provide a basis for further and bigger agreements with the whole bloc, which he said would start immediately.
Human rights groups say hundreds of miners still trapped, starving in abandoned South Africa mine
Police tried to force the miners out last year by cutting off their supplies and dismantling ropes they used to climb down into the mine and a pulley system used for supplies. A Cabinet minister said the aim was to “smoke them out” and the government would not send help because they were “criminals.”
Nigerian military bombs and kills own citizens instead of insurgents with aircraft donated by US on Christmas Day
The Nigerian military has a long history of killing civilians in its battle against militants and “bandits,” and has repeatedly denied responsibility for airstrikes that have killed innocent people. It has frequently been accused of covering up civilian deaths, as well, including running what a 2023 investigation by Nigeria’s Premium Times called “a systemic propaganda scheme to keep the atrocities of its troops under wraps.”
Turkey President Erdogan wants militant leader abducted from Kenya and jailed in 1999 to renounce his PKK party
After the first meeting with DEM officials, Ocalan was cited as indicating a willingness to call on the PKK to lay down arms. Two DEM sources said last week the party was now set to visit Ocalan again, as soon as January 15.
Zuckerberg in push to recover lost trust by embracing free speech but damage Facebook’s censorship caused persists
Mark Zuckerberg: As we’ve covered before, we didn’t just cross lines – we crossed sacred Rubicons created after humanity’s darkest chapters. The First Amendment, born from the revolution against tyranny and the Nuremberg Code, established after World War II’s horrors, were meant to be unbreakable guardians of human rights.
US justice department releases report on Trump attempt to overturn 2020 election
US District Judge Aileen Cannon, who presided over the documents case, has ordered the Justice Department for now to halt plans to allow certain senior members of Congress to privately review the documents section of the report.
Why Ugandans can’t ‘Think Big’ and regard presidential tokenism as manna that ameliorates economic pain
The theory that money will trickle down from, say, 100 (out of 10,000 people in a parish) targeted with money bonanzas to enrich the rest of the impoverished community is defective in a century where artificial intelligence is competing with humans in many areas of thinking power.
Trump will inherit a robust economy from Biden hat won’t need big policy reforms
Referring to recent US performance that has outstripped that of other developed nations and surprised many economists, Dynan said that “if you believe the economic growth in excess of trend is from immigration, it is going to be hard to get numbers as large as we saw in the latter part of the Biden administration.”
State in Uganda seeks opposition leader’s execution as military court hands him extra charge with death penalty
Human rights activists have accused Presdnt Yoweri Museveni’s government of widespread human rights abuses, including torture and arbitrary detention. The government has repeatedly denied allegations of election fraud and rights abuses.
Billionaires who rule world and space see no threat in Musk-Trump lies as Bezos readies Blue Origin
Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has a $3 billion contract with NASA to land humans on the moon under Artemis, following missions by SpaceX’s Starship, Musk’s fully reusable rocket in development that is designed to put humans and cargo on both the moon and Mars.
