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The U.S. Is Making Prison Deals in Other Countries
Esquire
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June 26, 2025
Is it possible for a nation of Reichstags to develop a world full of gulags, or does that stretch historical analogies beyond the breaking point? Let’s let the Intercept settle this question. An Intercept investigation finds that the Trump...
ECOWAS: As Tinubu’s two years of robust leadership comes to an end, By Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe
Premium Times
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June 23, 2025
President Tinubu handing over the chairmanship of ECOWAS to President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone The exit of President Tinubu as ECOWAS chairman will be profoundly felt. His contribution to making ECOWAS a stable, peaceful and united...
Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations
The Intercept
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Trump administration could resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own without any chance to object on the grounds that they might be tortured. This may clear a legal path for the...
US embassy in Monrovia tells visa applicants to make social media accounts 'public' for vetting
Africanews
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June 25, 2025
Liberians applying for US visas will have to give American authorities access to their social media, according to the US embassy in Monrovia. In a statement posted on its website, the embassy said that people “applying for an F, M, or J...
Wicknell Chivayo: How a self-styled knight giving away cars and wads of cash got people talking
Nehanda Radio
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June 22, 2025
By Shingai Nyoka | BBC News, Harare | A flashy tycoon in Zimbabwe has a nation entranced – some beguiled, others alarmed – by his habit of giving away cars along with wads of cash to those he deems patriotic – even presenting them to those he has...
US mulls travel ban, Gonzales warns region about selling passports
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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June 16, 2025
News Sean Douglas 4 Hrs Ago US President Donald Trump, front, at a business meeting and roundtable at Qasr Al Watan, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on May 16. At right is Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khaled Bin Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan....
What is the worldwide caution alert? See travel advisories for US
Treasure Coast Palm - Florida
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Following U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, tensions escalate between the two nations and their allies. The U.S. State Department issued a worldwide cautionary advisory for U.S. citizens abroad. President Trump's travel ban remains in...
China and Africa consolidate dynamic partnership
Friends of Socialist China
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June 16, 2025
On June 11, 2025, the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held in Changsha, capital of China’s Hunan Province. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi...
Cars, cash and a tycoon stirring debate in Zimbabwe
BBC
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Shingai NyokaBBC News, Harare ShareSave "Sir Wicknell", who started out as a wages clerk for a bus firm, has become such a celebrity that his face is decorating minibus taxis A flashy tycoon in Zimbabwe has a nation entranced - some beguiled,...
Politicians, Academics, Actress: Meet the 15 nominees for ambassadorial roles
GhanaWeb
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June 23, 2025
Exercising his executive powers, President John Dramani Mahama has nominated fifteen individuals to serve as Ambassadors, Consular-Generals, and High Commissioners in his first batch of diplomatic appointments. In a formal letter dated June 10,...
Yoweri Museveni: Ugandan president to seek 7th term in 2026 polls, ruling NRM...
TUKO
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June 24, 2025
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni is officially seeking a seventh term, extending his grip on Uganda for the past four decades despite growing youth-led resistance After 39 years in power and two constitutional amendments, Museveni’s bid for 2026...
SystemSpecs: The giant powering Africa’s digital future
Nairametrics
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June 16, 2025
When the world began to whisper about Africa’s emergence as the next digital frontier, a quiet revolution was already underway. Long before tech hubs sprouted across Lagos and before the words “fintech,” “startup,” or “unicorn” became daily...
How Guinea became a gateway for Russian weapons to reach the Sahel
Modern Ghana
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Despite the departure of the Wagner Group from Mali, Russia is continuing to strengthen its military presence in the country through its Africa Corps. Using satellite imagery, shipping logs and eyewitness reports, journalists from RFI have...
Top 10 stories of the day: Shivambu appeals for volunteers | US strikes Iran | Record price for Clifton apartment
The Citizen (South Africa)
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June 22, 2025
Here’s your daily news update for Sunday, 22 June 2025: An easy-to-read selection of our top stories. News today includes Floyd Shivambu making a public appeal for progressive volunteers just a day after being snubbed from his party’s...
Kalsoume Sinare to Madrid, Nii Amasah Namoale to Brasilia, Kojo Bonsu to Beijing
The Herald Ghana
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June 23, 2025
President John Dramani Mahama, has nominated 15 individuals for appointment as Ambassadors, High Commissioners, and Consul-General Designates to represent Ghana in various diplomatic missions abroad. The nominations, made in consultation with the...
African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 Upstream E&P Track To Foster Dialogue And Deals Amid African Exploration Surge
MENAFN
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June 20, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Amid Africa's ongoing exploration and production surge, this year's African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies conference will host a dedicated Upstream E&P Track. The track - taking place as part of...
Trump’s Foreign Student Crackdown Puts These 16 Struggling Colleges At Risk
Forbes
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St. Francis College is trying to turn things around. After operating in a deficit since fiscal year 2017, the 166-year-old Roman Catholic college in Brooklyn, New York, ended fiscal 2023 with $66 million in net income, thanks largely to the $160...
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Iodine Deficiency in Reproductive Women From 1990 to 2019, and Projections to 2035: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study in 2019
Dove Medical Press
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June 21, 2025
1Department of General Surgery, Cancer Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, 830011, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of General Surgery, Xiangya Hospital Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, People’s...
When Will Genetically Modifying Our Children Go Mainstream?
Gizmodo
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June 22, 2025
In late May, several scientific organizations, including the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT), banded together to call for a 10-year moratorium on using CRISPR and related technologies to pursue human heritable germline...
Cape Town killers jailed after brutal murder for insurance payout
Cape Town ETC
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June 22, 2025
In a harrowing case that has left South Africans stunned, four people have been handed hefty prison terms for orchestrating the cold-blooded murder of 23-year-old Nosipho Mafana, a mentally disabled woman who was killed in a twisted plot to cash...