We are ready for the first Kenyan original series, Showmax and Canal+ announce

We are ready for the first Kenyan original series, Showmax and Canal+ announce

“When I first read the script, I loved the delivery and realness of Silas as a character. It’s not exaggerated and he’s no Rambo hero; he just tackles his cases the normal way. I found a very real edge with this script and I hope I’ll do justice to the...

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Threat of bitter break up looms in Black Lives Matter as infighting persists

Threat of bitter break up looms in Black Lives Matter as infighting persists

Amid increased scrutiny of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullor’s lavish spending, including her reported purchases of multiple homes totalling upward of $3 million and the installation of fencing and an electric gate around one of those homes, the original ten BLM chapters are demanding more accountability and transparency from...

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PhDs proliferate, openings shrink; research careers and innovation on verge of limbo

PhDs proliferate, openings shrink; research careers and innovation on verge of limbo

Nations, universities and research institutions around the world must redouble efforts to expand training for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to prepare them for jobs outside academia. So urges a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental coalition of 38 nations. The report, the result...

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Americans no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history or meaning

Americans no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history or meaning

Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be. National narratives, like personal ones, are prone to sentimentality, grievance, pride, shame, self-blindness. There is never just one – they compete and constantly change. The most durable narratives...

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Step in the mind: Humanitarianism is in trouble, needs urgent reforms for impact

Step in the mind: Humanitarianism is in trouble, needs urgent reforms for impact

The Grand Bargain, a sweeping reform deal between donor nations and the main international aid organisations, was intended to allow a more efficient and effective response to emergencies around the globe. But five years on, the plan is due for a rethink, and signatories are preparing to hammer out the...

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Cameroon women trounce Burkina Faso on return to international rugby action

Cameroon women trounce Burkina Faso on return to international rugby action

The Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon whitewashed hosts Burkina Faso on June 9, 2021, to mark an emphatic return to international action in a match played at the August 4 Stadium. Visiting Cameroon scored 37 to the good in a match that took place on the side-lines of Rugby Africa Cup...

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US President Biden wants full probe into claims Covid-19 was bioengineered

US President Biden wants full probe into claims Covid-19 was bioengineered

As for finding an intermediate host animal, researchers in China have tested more than 80,000 wild and domesticated animals, but none have been positive for SARS-CoV-2. But this number is a tiny fraction of the animals in the country. To narrow the search down, researchers say, more strategic testing is...

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Chicken egg, 1,000 years old, found intact by Israel archaeologists in Yavne city

Chicken egg, 1,000 years old, found intact by Israel archaeologists in Yavne city

In the latest instalment in the eternal debate over which came first, an intact chicken egg dating from roughly 1021 CE was discovered in Yavne, a city in central Israel, archaeologists announced on Wednesday (June 9). Found protected in a cesspit, the gem was discovered by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists...

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Covid lab-leak hypothesis: No animal has been identified as transmitter of the virus to humans

Covid lab-leak hypothesis: No animal has been identified as transmitter of the virus to humans

Debate over the idea that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged from a laboratory has escalated over the past few weeks, coinciding with the annual World Health Assembly, at which the World Health Organization (WHO) and officials from nearly 200 countries discussed the Covid-19 pandemic. After last year’s assembly, the WHO agreed...

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Germ warfare: US funded Wuhan lab coronavirus programme with $826,300

Germ warfare: US funded Wuhan lab coronavirus programme with $826,300

A public interest organisation and a law firm in the United States, Judicial Watch, has announced that it had obtained 280 pages of documents from the Department of Health and Human Services that lays bare the truth about how the United States facilitated Wuhan Institute of Virology to research into...

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