UN deploys joint exploratory assessment mission to Congo’s Uvira for ceasefire monitoring
Fresh fighting has been reported since Monday in the mining areas of Rubaya in Masisi territory, North Kivu province.
Influential US economist Jeffrey Sachs wants Trump to give relief to families hit by tariffs
The tariffs were “illegal, unfair and detrimental to the American people,” and it was not the foreign countries but the American families, who were paying for the tariffs, Sachs, a professor of economics and director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, wrote in an opinion piece published on the US-based news website Common Dreams.
Iran, US to resume talks amid hardening military posture as observers say they ‘yielded encouraging signals’
In a phone call on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi stressed the importance of “constructive engagement and using the path of dialogue” to achieve a sustainable nuclear agreement, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported.
Muslim gay asylum-seeker accuses Trump administration of cruelty after deportation to Cameroon where homosexuality is illegal
The detention facility in Cameroon’s capital of Yaoundé, where Farah was held, currently has 15 deportees from various African countries who arrived on two flights, and none is Cameroonian, according to lawyer Joseph Awah Fru, who represents them.
Transition: America’s prime Black civil rights activist, Rev Jesse Jackson, waves world last goodbye as he ‘returns to the Pavilion’ aged 84
Jesse Jackson famously marched with the Rev Martin Luther King Jr in civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s and was with King the morning he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
Declassed records show US Energy Department’s lab-leak pivot was not driven by new intelligence
Most records remain hidden within the latest 186-page tranche released by the DOE, which has long run intelligence operations that leverage its unique scientific and technological expertise to protect national security. Only a relatively small number of pages, mostly of internal email discussions, contain substantive, readable material.
Hundreds of university students in US holiday island of Hawaii slip into homelessness as rising nationwide crisis bites
The latest national US report released in July of 2025 comparing all 50 states and the District of Columbia on education, employment and health found Hawaii tied with urban Washington, DC, New York and Alaska for the highest rate of homeless youth in the country. For many of Hawaii’s young people, the climb toward stability feels steeper than ever.
Barack Obama fires back at Trump after US president’s racist video that casts him and wife Michelle as apes
Trump sparked outrage when he shared the now-deleted racist video of Obama and Michelle, 62, on Truth Social on February 5. The footage of the couple as apes was included towards the end of a clip discussing unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud during the 2020 election.
FDA: Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine can cause febrile seizure in children under five years within one day
On its website on Covid-19 vaccine safety, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges that febrile seizures have been reported after vaccination with Moderna’s shot, including during Moderna’s clinical trial.
US, China tussle over Congo minerals as resistance to Trump rises in Kinshasa as Tshisekedi accused of underselling nation’s wealth
Tshisekedi has offered US companies access to eastern Congo’s rich minerals – mostly untapped and estimated to be worth $24 trillion – as a bargaining chip for US support to help fight off rebels and build critical infrastructure in the region where Rwanda-backed rebels seized major cities last year.
