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8 hours ago | April 26, 2024

Here are five things that happened in China this week

Manyika Kangai China’s top legislature starts session The Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s ...

NEW: Heavy rains pound East Africa, claim 155 lives in Tanzania

FLOODING and landslides in Tanzania caused by weeks of heavy rain have killed 155 people and injured 236 others, the ...

2 days ago | April 24, 2024

Understanding the deepening China-Africa partnership

Jameel Asani WHEN the African Union’s 37th Summit ended in February this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

6 days ago | April 21, 2024

Weakening embassies makes for a more dangerous world

Jorge Heine IT has long been held that embassies should be treated as “off-limits” to other nations. Yet in a single ...

1 week ago | April 19, 2024

Dubai airport limits arriving flights amid storm backlog

Dubai’s main airport said on Friday it is limiting the number of flights arriving for two days, as it continues to ...

Here are five things that happened in China this week

Manyika Kangai Canton Fair kicks off The China Import and Export Fair, also known as the Canton Fair, kicked off its ...

1 week ago | April 16, 2024

UN chief calls for reform of global financial architecture, ...

UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for the “wholesale reform” of the global ...

2 weeks ago | April 14, 2024

After Rwandan genocide, the world now failing Gaza

Chris McGreal AS the war in Gaza grinds through its deadly sixth month and allegations of war crimes by Israel pile up, ...

2 weeks ago | April 12, 2024

Kenya recalls J&J children’s cough syrup over suspected ...

Kenya’s drug regulator is recalling a batch of Johnson & Johnson children’s cough syrup, it said on ...

3 weeks ago | April 7, 2024

NATO has made the world a dangerous place

Mark Blacklock ONE of the strengths of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), which has allowed it to survive to ...

3 weeks ago | April 5, 2024

Nigerien leader dissolves regional, city, municipal councils

Abdourahamane Tchiani, president of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland of Niger, issued an order on ...

3 weeks ago | April 3, 2024

South African rand slips against the dollar

South Africa’s rand slipped early on Wednesday, as focus in the absence of local economic data shifted towards a ...

4 weeks ago | March 30, 2024

What, if anything, has US gained from its trade war with China?

Though clashing in many ways, the current US administration and its Republican predecessor have one thing in common: the ...

4 weeks ago | March 28, 2024

NEW: European regulators close in on Big Tobacco’s new tea sticks

European governments are weighing the introduction of tougher rules on cigarette makers’ new zero-tobacco heat ...

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