Man United shares plunge on New York Stock Exchange following fears Glazers are just playing games
Manchester United’s share price plummeted over nine per cent on Tuesday amid fears the Glazer family won’t sell the club after all. Shares valued at $25.55 on the New York Stock Exchange at the opening of Tuesday’s trading had slumped to $24.27 within 30 minutes. A slight rebound...
Fighting flares up in troubled eastern DR Congo hours after EAC called for pullback by armed groups
Fighting flared on Monday between the DR Congo’s army and M23 rebels in the country’s troubled east, just days after African leaders called for a ceasefire and a pullback by armed groups. “There have been clashes since 5:00 am with the M23” in the Kitshanga area, northwest of the main...
Experts vouch for decentralised economies, fear totalitarian systems by central banks via digital currencies
“We must prevent the introduction of central bank digital currencies “because that is the epitome of a centralised, controlled, even totalitarian system,” economist Richard Werner has warned. Speaking in a recent episode of The Kim Iversen Show, Prof Werner said the current inflation crisis the world is currently facing is...
Bone marrow therapy: Hope as third Aids patient is treated with HIV-resistant stem cells in Germany
A 53-year-old man in Germany has become at least the third person with HIV to be declared cleared of the virus after a procedure that replaced his bone marrow cells with HIV-resistant stem cells from a donor. For years, antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been given to people with HIV with...
Body of Ghanaian football star Christian Atsu killed in Turkey earthquake arrives home
The remains of Ghanaian football star Christian Atsu arrived home Sunday following his death in Turkey’s devastating earthquake. Atsu’s coffin, draped in Ghana’s flag, arrived by plane in Accra and was received by his family and with military honours. The 31-year-old athlete was discovered dead on Saturday following the 7.8-magnitude...
How a simple equation proves the US armed forces have triumphed in the war agaainst terror
4,000,000,029,057. Remember that number. It’s going to come up again later. But let’s begin with another number entirely: 145,000 – as in, 145,000 uniformed soldiers striding down Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue. That’s the number of troops who marched down that very street in May 1865 after the United States defeated the...
China ‘spy balloon’ scare wakes up America and Big Tech conglomerates to new era of surveillance
A day of Biden administration briefings on the Chinese spy balloon that travelled across US airspace last week ended in predictably partisan fashion, with multiple Republicans airing frustration while most Democrats defended the incident’s handling. What was unmissable was a replay of scenes from the Cold War era and a...
Extremism: Human rights abuses like seeing a father arrested or brother taken away by military forces feed radicalism
A lack of job opportunities is the leading factor driving people to join fast-growing violent extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report released by the UN Development Programme. The report titled Journey to Extremism in Africa: Pathways to Recruitment and Disengagement, underscores the importance of economic factors...
War anniversary: Russia launches 17 missile attacks in Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia cities
Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure in the cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia on Friday morning as Ukrainian officials said a long-awaited Russian offensive was under way in the east. At least 17 missiles hit the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia in an hour, acting mayor Anatolii Kurtiev...
Lucky to be alive! Earthquakes trigger traumatic memories for survivors in Türkiye and Syria
“The way the floor began shaking under my feet made me think I was back in Syria,” photographer Abdulsalam Jarroud, 24, a Syrian refugee originally from Idlib, says of the moment a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep on February 6. “It re-awakened traumatic memories I’ve been...
