Arsenal may have handed Liverpool 2025 English Premier League title after draw with Everton

Arsenal may have handed Liverpool 2025 English Premier League title after draw with Everton

Everton were awarded a penalty two minutes after halftime when Myles Lewis-Skelly hauled down Jack Harrison in the box and Ndiaye scored from the penalty spot to leave Arsenal’s flagging title hopes in tatters.

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Infidelity: Storm on social media as microcheating is all the rage, boundaries tested and trust rocked

As relationship norms evolve and terms like “polyamory” come out of the shadows, liking or commenting on a photo may seem fairly innocuous. Many couples don’t care, Medcalf said, but people who do shouldn’t feel bad for it.

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Comesa leather value chain strategy that aims grow regional industrialisation launched in Kenya

Comesa leather value chain strategy that aims grow regional industrialisation launched in Kenya

Africa Leather and Leather Products Institute (ALLPI) Executive Director Nicholas Mudungwe reinforced the need for commitment and collaboration in implementing the strategy, likening the process to marriage, where teamwork and adaptability are essential.

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African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation approves listing of human medicines on the continent  

African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation approves listing of human medicines on the continent  

The African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation (AMRH) initiative is a continental programme under the African Union development agency-NEPAD, established to strengthen regulatory systems for medicinal products across Africa. It works to improve access to safe, effective and quality-assured medicines by supporting the alignment of national and regional regulatory frameworks, capacity building, and the establishment of robust oversight mechanisms.

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Africa’s 60 per cent fallow agricultural land lures foreign investors, but their dreams end up in smoke

Africa’s 60 per cent fallow agricultural land lures foreign investors, but their dreams end up in smoke

In 2021, the Senegalese village of Niéti Yone welcomed investors Frank Timis and Gora Seck from a US-registered company, African Agriculture. Over cups of sweet green tea, the visitors promised to employ hundreds of locals and, one day, thousands. Timis, originally from Romania, was the majority stakeholder.

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France’s Le Pen refuses to bow out of 2027 vote after being convicted of graft and barred from running

France’s Le Pen refuses to bow out of 2027 vote after being convicted of graft and barred from running

Judge Benedicte de Perthuis said Le Pen had been “at the heart” of a scheme to misappropriate more than 4 million euros ($4.3 million) of EU funds and use them to pay the far-right party’s staff back home.

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Make America Stupid Again: How Trump’s provincialism in education will kill Enlightenment scholarship

Make America Stupid Again: How Trump’s provincialism in education will kill Enlightenment scholarship

Long after Jefferson’s death in 1826, the seeds of Enlightenment ideas had a hard time finding purchase in the rocky soil of American xenophobia and anti-intellectualism. In 1841, the brilliant mathematician James Joseph Sylvester, only 27 years old but already writing papers whose conceptual brilliance astonished the field, was hired by the University of Virginia. As historian Lewis S. Feuer noted, Sylvester was “the first observing Jew to be called to the United States to fill a full professorship in a secular subject.”

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Newly capped England international Eze inspires Palace to beat Fulham to reach FA Cup semis

Newly capped England international Eze inspires Palace to beat Fulham to reach FA Cup semis

London’s oldest football stadium bathed in beautiful spring sunshine alongside the River Thames was the perfect setting for the first FA Cup clash between the clubs since 1907. With so many of the usual suspects having bowed out, fans of Fulham and Palace arrived with genuine belief that this could be the year they win their first major silverware.

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SADC’s failure in Congo: South African military’s strength – the backbone of the brigade – has significantly deteriorated

SADC’s failure in Congo: South African military’s strength – the backbone of the brigade – has significantly deteriorated

Tanzania’s shifting stance added to the confusion. Tanzania chose not to participate in the East African Community Regional Force deployed to eastern DRC before SAMIDRC. Although initially supportive of SAMIDRC, it gradually moved towards a neutral position.

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New investigation finds Germany knew about Covid lab leak in 2020 but hid evidence from public for political reasons

New investigation finds Germany knew about Covid lab leak in 2020 but hid evidence from public for political reasons

The FBI had evidence in 2021 that the virus leaked from a lab, but wasn’t allowed to present it, The Wall Street Journal reported last year. Investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker said major US news outlets have not reported on the German investigation “because it doesn’t fit their politics.”

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