Why Biden, Republicans are involved in fierce haggling over debt ceiling and how the impasse could end
In Congress, meanwhile, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has launched a process that would “discharge” the issue to the House floor and force a vote on raising the debt limit. It’s a cumbersome legislative procedure, but Jeffries urged House Democrats to sign on to the measure in hopes of gathering the majority needed to trigger a vote.
Weary of cannibalistic government, Ugandans reserve doubts about President Museveni’s vague modernity ‘evangelism’
Social exclusion will be seen in education, health, agriculture and even justice and human rights observance. The majority will be ignored and a few will have it all. The law will tend to apply to the excluded, not the included, as exemplified in the iron sheets scandal.
Why President Museveni cannot trust fellow Ugandans to guard him, is surrounded by Rwandans and Congolese
Africa hoped to benefit from globalisation by solving the perennial problems of food shortages and hunger by spurring agribusiness. Indeed, globalisation has allowed agricultural production to grow much faster than in the past. However, globalisation has allowed the stealing of Africa’s seeds and their storage in gene banks abroad.
In-demand Danish baby industry thrives because sperm donors are vetted vigorously for genetic abnormalities
Julie Paulli Budtz, director of brand and communications at the European Sperm Bank said: “In the past, the recipients and later the children didn’t get any information about the donor, but now we give a full description of him, his interests and his family.”
Why British women are shunting their fussy midgets and shopping for ‘Viking babies’ in Dutch sperm banks
Customers, whether single women or couples, can log in to the website and choose their donor at leisure. They are provided with a photograph of the donor as a child, often an audio file of his voice talking about himself, and a run-down of his physical qualities such as eye and hair colour, height, weight and educational standard.
Europa League: Stadium safety questioned after AZ Alkmaar thugs attack West Ham players, supporters
Order was eventually restored and David Moyes” side could head over to the away end to toast their 3-1 aggregate win, sealed by Pablo Formals” injury-time winner which fired West Ham into next month’s Europa Conference League final.
Russian forces in hasty retreat as supplies thin out and Ukrainian troops launch ground, air strikes
The blasted ruins of Bakhmut, described by both sides as a “meat grinder”, would be Moscow’s only prize for its huge winter offensive that failed elsewhere along the front. Kyiv says it has launched local advances around Bakhmut as a prelude to an upcoming big counteroffensive that it hopes will turn the tide against Russia’s 15-month-old invasion.
G7 leaders devote first day of Hiroshima summit on working on punitive sanctions against Russia
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who represents Hiroshima in parliament, wants nuclear disarmament to be a major focus of discussions, and he formally started the summit at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park. The visit by world leaders to a park dedicated to preserving reminders of August 6, 1945, when a US B-29 dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, provided a striking backdrop to the start the summit.
What Uganda calls modernity is a byword for bandit economy run by refugees, ‘imported’ criminals
Unfortunately, integration of an African country in the WTO does not favour local industrialisation but instead, as a tool of globalisation and modernisation, sustains the dependency syndrome on goods and services of foreign origin with strings attached.
Banks in US treat social media as pariah on back of $1-million-per-second withdrawals before SVB eventual collapse
Lenders are taking action, rethinking social media’s role as a potential risk rather than marketing tool, after tweets questioning SVB’s financial health prompted nervous customers to pull $1 million per second from their accounts before the bank failed on March 10.
