The Sun Valley Lodge prepares for the upcoming Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 06, 2026 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images After a blistering…
Read more Media and Corporate Moguls Touch Down in Sun Valley for ‘Billionaire Summer Camp’Prices have risen steadily in Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in Ukraine [BBC] “Life is becoming more expensive,” complains Alexander, a Moscow-based advertising specialist who…
Read more Food prices are surging in Russia. Is the war hitting Russians in the pocket?At least 21 people have died after a passenger boat sank in River Nile state in northern Sudan, a medical group has told the BBC. The boat was…
Read more At least 21 dead after boat sinks on Sudan’s River NileSustained heavy gunfire and loud explosions have been heard in Niger near the international airport outside the capital, Niamey. Multiple eyewitness accounts and videos showed air defence systems…
Read more Heavy gunfire and blasts heard near airport in Niger’s capitalUgandans under the age of 40 – and that is more than three-quarters of the population – have only known one president. Yoweri Museveni seized the top job…
Read more He once criticised African leaders who cling to power. Now he wants a seventh termInsider stock sales amounted to $16 billion in 2025, according to data from Washington Service. Jeff Bezos cashed in nearly $6 billion of Amazon stock throughout the year.…
Read more Founders and CEOs cashed in more than $16 billion of stock last year. Here are the top 5 biggest sellers.A manhunt is under way after a shooting at a tavern in South Africa left nine people dead and another 10 injured. Police said seven men and two…
Read more Gunmen kill nine in South Africa tavern attackA group of military officers say they have seized control of Guinea-Bissau amid reports that the president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has been arrested. Shortly after gunshots were heard…
Read more Guinea-Bissau soldiers say they have taken power after reports of president’s arrestTwo girls, who were among at least 25 children and a teacher kidnapped from their boarding school in north-western Nigeria’s Kebbi state on Monday, have managed to escape,…
Read more Two schoolgirls escape Nigeria kidnap ordeal, official saysThere’s something about the idea of Lapland in winter that has captivated me for years. Maybe it’s the promise of landscapes so pristine they look photoshopped, or the…
Read more Winter in Lapland: My Ultimate Arctic Bucket ListAttackers have boarded a ship off the coast of Somalia after firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at the vessel, according to a UK maritime agency. The United…
Read more Pirates fire grenades and board vessel off Somali coastA South African court has ordered an anti-migrant group to stop blocking foreign nationals from accessing public health facilities and schools, saying such actions are illegal. Operation Dudula…
Read more Anti-migrant group ordered to stop blocking foreigners from South African healthcareBitcoin (BTC-USD) extended declines on Tuesday as investor concerns over the government shutdown and slowing economic growth led to a selloff of the world’s largest cryptocurrency. The token…
Read more Bitcoin tumbles at $104,000 as selling pressure mounts, government shutdown ‘stalls’ tailwindsTanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is being sworn in shortly for a second term following an election marred by violent protests and rejected by the opposition as a…
Read more Tanzania president being sworn in after election marred by violenceThis week’s trial of three undercover operatives, accused of helping the Kremlin to wage a hybrid warfare campaign to “destabilise” France, sounds like a surefire recipe for drama,…
Read more Hand of Moscow? The men jailed for vandalism in French hybrid warfare casePerplexity AI has agreed to a multi-year licensing partnership with Getty Images that will allow its users to access the latter’s extensive library of images. Leveraging Getty’s API,…
Read more Perplexity signs deal to use Getty ImagesThe year was 1965. On a Sunday in Jaunti, a small village on Delhi’s outskirts, a hardened Indian farmer stretched out his hand to a visiting farm scientist.…
Read more MS Swaminathan: The scientist who saved India from hungerAs of Monday, the Louvre Museum in Paris was still closed following the brazen daylight heist that took place on Sunday and resulted in eight missing pieces of…
Read more What was stolen in the Louvre heist? What to know about the 8 jewelry pieces — and the ‘race against time’ to save them.A manhunt is under way for a gang of thieves who carried out a broad daylight raid on Paris’s Louvre Museum and stole jewels described as priceless. French…
Read more ‘Priceless’ jewels stolen in raid on Louvre Museum in ParisRevivals and farewells: Africa's top shots Source link
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