President Kiir endorsed by South Sudan ruling SPLM party to vie for the top seat in 2024 polls
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, who has been in office for over a decade, will run for president in elections due to be held in about two years, his party said on Tuesday. Oil-rich South Sudan secured independence from its northern neighbour Sudan in 2011 but plunged into civil war...
US navy intercepts fishing trawler trafficking 50 tonnes of weapons in Gulf of Oman
US naval forces in the Middle East have intercepted a fishing trawler smuggling more than 50 tonnes of ammunition rounds, fuses and propellants for rockets in the Gulf of Oman along a maritime route from Iran to Yemen. Navy personnel operating from expeditionary sea-base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3)...
M23 militias want direct contact with EAC facilitator Uhuru Kenyatta and DRC President Tshisekedi
M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reiterated their call for a meeting with former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and have vowed to continue to respect a two-week-old ceasefire. Kenyatta is the East African Community (EAC) facilitator in the Nairobi-led peace talks that are aimed at...
Missing $80 trillion reported by Switzerland-based BIS triggers fears of steep global economic meltdown
The world faces a staggering financial meltdown with potential losses exceeding the total number of US dollars in circulation. This warning does not come from some headline-grabbing doomsayer but arguably the most respectable financial body of all, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). This is a body of central bankers...
There’re no laws of nature, what we’ve are consistent maths theories that seem to match parts of nature
I was recently reading an old article by string theorist Robbert Dijkgraaf in Quanta Magazine entitled There are no laws of physics. You might think it a bit odd for a physicist to argue that there are no laws of physics but I agree with him. In fact, not only...
Whistle-blower details how FBI, other US agencies trail him to keep a leash on Covid origin
A scientist who believes that Covid was created at a US-funded lab in Wuhan has accused the FBI of following him with drones and breaking into his home in an effort to silence him. Dr Andrew Huff, a former vice president at EcoHealth Alliance, claimed that as he started to...
‘Terrified by what I saw, Covid was genetically engineered’, says American scientist who worked at Wuhan lab
An American scientist who worked at a research laboratory in Wuhan, China, has claimed that the novel coronavirus was a “genetically engineered agent” that leaked from the US-funded facility. It was reportedly exposed by Dr Andrew Huff, an epidemiologist and former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, in The Truth About...
President Obama is still the go-to strategist for Democrats against GOP since Harry Truman’s era
If there was any doubt that Barack Obama remains the Democratic Party’s ablest campaigner, it was removed last week when the former president swept into Georgia for the final push of US Senator Raphael Warnock’s re-election bid. As he did during the last stages of the fall midterm election campaign,...
Portugal boss Santos proves Ronaldo is non-issue after superstar’s replacement pumps in hattrick
Cristiano Ronaldo left his team-mates celebrating on the pitch as he walked down the tunnel at the end of Portugal’s win over Switzerland. Portugal won 6-1 in the last-16 clash to set up a tie with Morocco. Ronaldo was dropped by manager Fernando Santos after throwing a strop following his...
Agile Morocco dumps colourless Spain out of Qatar World Cup in ‘Mediterranean derby’
Morocco have sealed their spot in the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time in their history after beating Spain in the last 16 on penalties in Qatar. The result means Morocco – the last African side in the tournament – will now play the winner of Portugal’s clash against...
