Russia wants Central African Republic to hire state-run Africa Corps and pay for it
A Central African Republic military official said on Tuesday that the Russian deputy defence minister made the demands about a shift to Africa Corps and payment for its services earlier this year during several visits to the country.
Missed signals, lost deal: Hopes of India, US raising trade to $500b fade as talks collapse
Officials on both sides said a mix of political misjudgement, missed signals and bitterness broke down the deal between the world’s biggest and fifth-largest economies, whose bilateral trade is worth over $190 billion.
Israeli parliament approves apartheid as US Republicans and Democrats close ranks against PM Netanyahu
Despite its most powerful ally and arms dealer’s stated preference for a two-state solution, Israel’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday in favour of a symbolic measure to annex the occupied West Bank,
How elimination of funding for some ‘woke’ studies by Trump administration killed cancer research
While researchers across the country have lost grants, two of the Trump administration’s political targets – Columbia and Harvard – have been hit especially hard. And across the board, many of these grant terminations appear to be part of the administration’s anti-DEI, anti-trans, and anti-vaccine agendas.
New York teachers fired for refusing Covid vaccines take case to US Supreme Court
Several lower courts, including the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in November 2024, ruled against the teachers. The New York City Department of Education, its Chancellor, Melissa Aviles-Ramos, and New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan are among the defendants named in the combined lawsuit.
Pope Leo blasts Israel for ‘barbarity of war’ after its army kills 67 aid-seekers in Gaza
Israel’s military said its troops had fired warning shots towards a crowd of thousands of people in northern Gaza on Sunday to remove what it said was “an immediate threat”.
Congo, Rwanda bicker over withdrawal of M23 rebels from cities in the east hours after signing ceasefire deal in Qatar
In it, both parties committed to “building trust” through various measures, including an exchange of prisoners and detainees as well as restoring state authority in all parts of the country, including rebel-held areas.
‘Enshittification’ of American power: How US hegemony is sustained by network logic that’s difficult and expensive to break away from
So dollar clearing is an expedient. It’s also the chief enforcement mechanism of US financial policy across the globe. If foreign banks don’t implement US financial sanctions and other measures, they risk losing access to US dollar clearing and going under. This threat is so existentially dire that, when Lam was placed under US sanctions
While Africa has been vital to development of HIV medication, Trump’s funding cuts to UN threatens vaccine research
Significant advances have included clinical trials for lenacapavir, the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, recently approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration. One study to show its efficacy involved young South Africans.
Air India crash investigation report pinpoints pilot confusion that led to the accident that killed 260
The commanding pilot of the Air India plane was Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, who had a total flying experience of 15,638 hours and, according to the Indian government, was also an Air India instructor. His co-pilot was Clive Kunder, 32, who had 3,403 hours of total experience.
