‘I never wanted to be known just for football…,’ NFL icon Ndamukong Suh opens up on how sharpest minds in sports manage their money

‘I never wanted to be known just for football…,’ NFL icon Ndamukong Suh opens up on how sharpest minds in sports manage their money

Throughout my NFL career, when I wasn’t sacking your favourite quarterback, I was networking with some of the sharpest business minds in the world. That led me to build a real estate portfolio, step into investing and become an advocate for financial literacy.

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New confidential report by UN experts accuses Rwanda of commanding and controlling M23 rebels

New confidential report by UN experts accuses Rwanda of commanding and controlling M23 rebels

Rwanda has long denied helping M23 and says its forces are acting in self-defence against Congo’s army and ethnic Hutu militiamen linked to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, including the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

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There’s no such thing as a free lunch: Listening billionaires’ stories it’s obvious they are sick of human species, whom they see as inferior beings around them

There’s no such thing as a free lunch: Listening billionaires’ stories it’s obvious they are sick of human species, whom they see as inferior beings around them

In order to roll back the labour victories of the postwar era (which had become harder to justify in the wake of falling profits), American elites both empowered finance capital (leading to a series of bubbles) and embraced deindustrialization, with many industries shifting to the Global South (notably China).

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Kenyan president among world leaders to be taxed for using private jets or first class

Kenyan president among world leaders to be taxed for using private jets or first class

UN chief Antonio Guterres said the Seville meeting aimed “to repair and rev up” a world system where “trust is fraying and multilateralism is strained.”

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UN mission in Haiti on a cliff-hanger one year after deployment of Kenyan police officers starved of personnel, funds, gear

UN mission in Haiti on a cliff-hanger one year after deployment of Kenyan police officers starved of personnel, funds, gear

In a note sent to the UN Security Council last week, Kenyan President William Ruto said 991 troops were currently deployed, mostly Kenyans but also 150 Guatemalans, 78 Salvadorans, 23 Jamaicans, six Bahamians and two Belizeans.

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Trump administration rounds up, arrests Iranian immigrants in unprecedented deportation drive

Trump administration rounds up, arrests Iranian immigrants in unprecedented deportation drive

The US Border Patrol arrested Iranians 1,700 times at the Mexican border from October 2021 through November 2024, according to the most recent public data available. The Homeland Security Department reported that about 600 Iranians overstayed visas as business or exchange visitors, tourists and students in the 12-month period through September 2023, the most recent data reports.

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Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei keeps off funerals of commanders and scientists killed by Israel

Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei keeps off funerals of commanders and scientists killed by Israel

In attendance were President Masoud Pezeshkian and other senior figures including Ali Shamkhani, who was seriously wounded during the conflict and is an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as Khamenei’s son Mojtaba.

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Dust has hardly settled as Trump warns he’d consider bombing Iran again, drops sanctions relief plan

Dust has hardly settled as Trump warns he’d consider bombing Iran again, drops sanctions relief plan

Trump also said that in recent days he had been working on the possible removal of sanctions on Iran to give it a chance for a speedy recovery. He said he had now abandoned that effort.

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Vice President JD Vance is the loyal convert-in-chief and he is on top of the world after roping in for tech billionaires for Donald Trump

Vice President JD Vance is the loyal convert-in-chief and he is on top of the world after roping in for tech billionaires for Donald Trump

After serving in the Marines and graduating from Yale Law School, Vance bounced around from a stint on Capitol Hill in Texas senator John Cornyn’s office to a federal clerkship in Kentucky to a brief stint in corporate law before cutting his teeth in the VC field at Mithril Capital, a firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel.

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‘We’re getting for US a lot of mineral rights from the Congo’, Trump makes American interests clear in DRC, Rwanda peace deal

‘We’re getting for US a lot of mineral rights from the Congo’, Trump makes American interests clear in DRC, Rwanda peace deal

Rwanda has sent at least 7,000 soldiers over the border, according to analysts and diplomats, in support of the M23 rebels, who seized eastern Congo’s two largest cities and lucrative mining areas in a lightning advance earlier this year.

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