Why Russian-flag waving protesters pricked Nigerian security as Moscow’s clout in West Africa expands
Wagner Group has been identified as a potential threat to security and democracy in Nigeria. This is because of their mode of operation and interests in exploiting natural resources. A recent study has shown that foreign criminals are involved in gold exploration and insecurity in Zamfara, one of the states sharing borders with Niger.
How Harris’ White bid House is attracting record-high funding and groundswell of support for Democrats
Swing states are where elections are won and lost. Reuters has identified seven states as playing an outsized role in determining the winner of the presidential election and their electoral college votes could go either way. Six of the seven have had enough polls conducted to calculate an overall trend for each candidate and tell the story of a very close race. Nevada did not have enough data.
Man City at crossroads: ‘No chance Premier League will pardon champions for financial fair play breaches’
City’s rivals, whether rationally or otherwise, fear that legal success for City would only be the start of attempts to destabilise the competitive balance of the English game. “They worry that it will lead to City and Newcastle (owned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund) dumping a billion every summer; that’s the fear, that it blows the house down on financial sustainability across the whole of Europe,” says one European football executive.
EPL champions Man City start defence of title facing risk of demotion over financial fiddling
Manchester City have been down this road before. They were banned from European competitions for two years by UEFA for alleged breaches of financial regulations in February 2020. Yet the sanction was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in July of the same year when the court ruled “most of the alleged breaches were either not established or time-barred (outside of the organisation’s five-year statute of limitations)”. City were fined €10 million (£8.6 million or $11 million) for not cooperating with the investigation.
Harris seems to ‘walk on eggs’ as she rolls out policy aimed at outmanoeuvring Trump, addressing 2020 liabilities
While Donald Trump in recent weeks has resorted to personal and racially tinged attacks on his new rival, his campaign has been working to put Harris’ policy aims front and centre, aiming to paint Kamala Harris as a radical liberal, pointing to old videos of her discussing policy positions during the 2020 Democratic primary.
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.
