Experts scramble for answers in wake of rapid rise in cancer incidence in younger people
The cancer trend has also caught the attention of health organisations worldwide, including the World Health Organization, which in February predicted a 77 per cent rise in new cancer cases – from 20 million cases in 2022 to over 35 million cases by 2050.
With White population now 58 cent down from 80 per cent explains why Trump’s racist card appeals to white voters gripped by demographic hysteria
While the Census Bureau says there are still 195 million white people in America and that they are still the majority, the white population actually declined slightly in 2023, and experts believe that they will become a minority sometime between 2040 and 2050.
Forced into hasty retreat by Harris’ meteoric rise, Trump now faces a threat bigger than Biden
Internally, nine sources revealed that they see Harris as a far tougher opponent than Biden, who had been struggling for months in the face of doubts about his mental acuity and weakening poll numbers. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week fell to a lower than expected 233,000,
Why subsidies are fuelling protests around the world fragile African economies taking a hit
Across Africa – and a string of other emerging market nations – debt-laden governments trying to shed costly fuel subsidies are running headlong into angry populations reeling from years of increasing living costs.
Picking running mate: Inside 16 days between Kamala Harris’ launch and choice of Tim Walz
As factions squabbled over Kelly and Shapiro, Walz may have benefitted from having a fan in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A San Francisco Democrat like Harris, Pelosi has maintained that she had no preference and does not tell presidential nominees who to pick as running mates. But one former Pelosi aide described the former speaker and Walz as “super tight,” and Pelosi has recently demonstrated her status as a leading party elder via her private conversations with Biden about bowing out.
After Africa’s future was stolen via decades of state corruption the youth in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria are now reclaiming it by force
There is widespread perception among the youths of Uganda that the rulers are curtailing their development for their own benefit. Some argue that they are being exported to slave markets in the Middle East so that they do not contribute to a future population of Uganda through reproduction. They say their labour is enriching those in power and those active in the export of youth to the Middle East slave market.
When bitcoin bros and MAGA faithful met in Nashville and the result was insults overflow – an enduring right wing hallmark
It was an hour before the motorcade was set to arrive in downtown Nashville, and the lady in the “Trump Save America” T-shirt was explaining why she hates Kamala Harris. “I’m not meaning to say I’m a prejudiced person,” she began. Of the many ways to end such a sentence,...
Analysts: Turmoil in world market is a result of end of cheap funding, not hard and fast shifts in US economy
While Friday’s weaker-than-expected US jobs data was the catalyst for the market sell-off, with Japan’s blue-chip Nikkei index on Monday suffering its biggest one-day rout since the 1987 Black Monday selloff, the employment report alone wasn’t weak enough to be the main driver of such violent moves, they added.
How Ugandan politics has evolved since the ‘Nairobi Peace Jokes’ through bloodbath and false hope to opposition-propped ‘eternal president’
President Tibuhaburwa Museveni may be an elected President but he remains 100 per cent military in heart, mind and actions, and he is the champion of the de-democratisation and militarisation processes in Uganda. He takes full advantage of the fact that the Uganda Constitution 1995, whose making he presided over, invests all power and authority over everything – underground and above-ground – including power and authority. Power is concentrated in the hands of the institution of the presidency, which he has captured for the past 38 years.
As African leaders fret about biased credit rating, here’s how continent’s craving for modernity fuelled debt bomb
Essential to the plan were the “Big Three” US-based credit rating agencies – S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s Ratings and Fitch Ratings, which together account for more than 90 per cent of global ratings. The rating agencies collected fees for their services and began applying their complex analyses to the region.
