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Man dies in Bas-Uele after travelling from Haut-Uele, as head of WHO says outbreak on track to be deadliest ever The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a sixth province, officials have said, a day...

For months now, traders and market analysts have had to weigh two opposing scenarios for oil prices—the ongoing war and severely disrupted oil flows at the Strait of Hormuz and hopes that a U.S.-Iran deal would free up millions of...

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On 31 July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that it had disrupted a Cambodia-based criminal operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and law-enforcement impersonation scams. The suspected network created false identities, translated conversations, generated images of forged documents, and adapted its messages...

Romania on Thursday began shutting down its only remaining operating nuclear reactor as record-low water levels on the Danube have forced nuclear power shutdowns in central and eastern Europe in recent weeks. Nuclearelectrica has launched the process to disconnect the...

Disciplinary proceedings under way after security concerns raised over reported visits to official residence France has opened disciplinary proceedings against its ambassador to Central African Republic over allegations of misconduct, after claims he brought dozens of women into his official residence,...

Once Africa’s most revered pop brotherhood, the dynamic duo P-Square has now been reduced to a music-business case study. Peter Okoye’s fresh video series revived allegations over royalties, catalogue access and financial records, while older brother and former manager Jude Okoye...

Football is accustomed to comeback stories, but Chinedu Ozor’s unfolded far beyond the pitch. The Katsina United defender collapsed during a pre-season friendly against Niger Tornadoes at Muhammadu Dikko Stadium and was rushed to hospital, where he was reportedly pronounced dead. Condolences...

The world's leading autocracies -- China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea -- are increasingly drawing on one another's resources, military capabilities, and geopolitical leverage to withstand Western pressure. For Washington, the strategic dilemma is no longer simply whether the four...

Decommissioning remained a major activity across the UK North Sea in 2025, with industry spending hitting a record-high of £2.6 billion, or $3.5 billion, the North Sea industry regulator said in a report on Thursday. Well decommissioning remains the single...

After speaking with dozens of semiconductor professionals at the Design Automation Conference in Long Beach about AI in the chip-design workflow, Claude emerged as the common denominator in every conversation. We’re still at the tip of the iceberg when it...

State-controlled Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL) is finalizing feasibility studies for two new strategic petroleum reserves facilities as the world’s third-largest crude oil importer looks to boost its energy security. ISPRL, a government-owned special purpose vehicle, is finalizing a...

A bill about the construction of a pipeline for liquefied natural gas has failed to secure sufficient votes in the state’s legislature, prompting a sharp reaction from Governor Mike Dunleavy who was behind the bill. “The Legislature’s decision to not...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russians possess a “genetic code of winners” during a meeting with Sakhalin Region Governor Valery Limarenko, who briefed the president on support measures for participants in the special military operation and their families. Limarenko said he...

China’s biggest coal-to-chemicals producer reported record profits for the first half, raking in the equivalent of $1.4 billion as crude oil prices soared internationally, strengthening the business case for converting coal to chemicals. Bloomberg reported today that Ningxia Baofeng Energy...

New Zealand’s petroleum and mining regulator has granted a 10-year petroleum mining permit in the onshore Taranaki region as the country looks to boost natural gas supply to the domestic market. The regulator, New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals (NZP&M), on...

Route-based Approaches between Protection and Control Route-based approaches promise a paradigm shift in international refugee and migration policy. Rather than treating individual country contexts in isolation, they shift attention to developments along key migration corridors. The analytical value is obvious, given...

On August 6, 2026, Polish President Karol Nawrocki stood before a crowd at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, marking the first anniversary of his inauguration. “Let them murder the Soviets who attacked them – it does not hurt us Poles....

India turned into the world’s biggest coal power generation capacity builder, proposing as much as 638 million metric tons annually in new capacity last year. This was a surge from 329 million tons annually in new planned coal capacity a...

The West’s spree of “shadow fleet” seizures might finally be coming to an end after what Putin just told his Pacific Fleet commanders during his visit to the Russian Far East. As he phrased it, “We can see that the officials...

Given the relentless demand for computing power, electronic components are in scarce supply. Prices for certain memory chips, known as DRAM, have surged by more than 50 percent in a single quarter this year, and have roughly quadrupled since last...

The 1930 comic history, 1066 and All That, made famous the British habit of reducing national history to a sequence of memorable dates. The modern Royal Navy has its own unhappy version of that calendar. Since 1945, a series of...

For a fortnight beginning August 30, Tehran gets to feel wanted – first in Bishkek, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, then in New Delhi at the BRICS summit, Iran’s leadership will sit among presidents and prime ministers who need...

South Korean private equity firm Hahn & Co plans to reshuffle the liquefied natural gas tanker fleets of its shipping companies SK Shipping and H-Line Shipping to create Asia’s biggest and the world’s third-largest operator of LNG carriers. Under the...

This article was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative newsroom. A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling...

Popular Nigerian social media influencer and streamer, Peller (real name Habib Hamzat), is in the news, and the blogosphere is buzzing. The social media personality wed his girlfriend, Jarvis (real name Mamodu Elizabeth Aminata), on Saturday, 8 August 2026, and post-wedding,...

Despite the ongoing stalemate in the U.S.-Iran talks and persistent risks to shipping in the Middle East, oil prices fell in Asian trading on Thursday, weighed down by cuts to 2026 oil demand forecasts from both OPEC and the International...

What Five Years of Directives Add Up To On August 10, 2026, Reporters Without Borders marked five years of Taliban rule with an assessment that Afghanistan has become, in the organization’s words, a prison for information. The report catalogs more...

Hakainde Hichilema is bidding for second term, but feud between him and family of Edgar Lungu, who died in 2025, continues As Zambians go to the polls on Thursday, the ghost of the current president’s predecessor hangs over the elections. Hakainde Hichilema,...

In the city where Islam began, three leaders sat down last Friday and signed something the region has not seen before. Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif put their names to the Mecca...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has doubled down on his military and strategic alliance with Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime, betting that this axis will strengthen his own position for now. However, Kim’s strategic calculus depends on the...

Shenzhen will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC) in November 2026, particularly given its reputation as China’s Silicon Valley and a global hub for artificial intelligence and embodied intelligence. The city will showcase its advanced industrial ecosystem in robotics,...

By: B A Hamzah The war against Iran has been going on for more than five months, running up against the adage that history teaches: wars are easier to start than to end. Tactical victories can become strategic defeats if they...

Zhu Rongji, born on October 23, 1928, died on August 12, 2026. He had been a prime minister, and a great modernizer of China’s financial system. Yet his legacy seems to have faded. Premier Zhu was the man who pushed...