Category: Latest News

Oct 29
RSF drone attacks, Somalia’s drought emergency, and WFP sticks with Palantir: The Cheat Sheet

RSF drone attacks, Somalia’s drought emergency, and WFP sticks with Palantir: The Cheat Sheet sofia Fri, 08/14/2026 - 09:26

Oct 29
Right Livelihood Award honors women taking on autocrats, discrimination and unchecked AI

The Right Livelihood Award has been given to two women and two women-led organizations to recognize work against authoritarianism, violence and AI-related harms

Oct 29
After a Sip of Stream Water, a 12-Year-Old’s Week of Nosebleeds Ended with a Live 3-Inch Leech Pulled From Her Throat

A 12-year-old had a week of nosebleeds and trouble swallowing after drinking stream water. Doctors found a live 8-cm leech in her throat.

Oct 29
INEC explains Amupitan’s absence after Obidients’ query

INEC has explained that its Chairman, Prof Joash Amupitan, is on an official assignment abroad, following a query by the Obidient Movement on his whereabou Read More: https://punchng.com/inec-explains-amupitans-absence-after-obidients-query/

Oct 29
It’s Not Too Late for Congress to Undo One of the Worst Supreme Court Decisions of the Last Term

Passing the bill would mark significant bipartisan resistance to the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda.

Oct 29
Crazed migrant allegedly executes 3 Minnesota apartment complex staffers over parking contract dispute

A disgruntled migrant allegedly gunned down three staffers at his Minnesota apartment block in a crazed rampage after he couldn’t cancel his parking garage contract. Tsegaab Binessu, 30, allegedly shot dead Nansi Fuentes Zambrano, 25, Dena Silcox, 56, and Ada…

Oct 29
UN Warns Major Emissions Cuts Needed to Limit Warming Overshoot

The world can no longer keep global warming below 1.5C and must now focus on minimizing its overshoot, the United Nations said ahead of next month’s COP31 climate talks in Turkey. The US retreat from the fight is making it …

Oct 29
The BRICS Coalition Meets In India

The coalition of second-tier and second-rate countries calling themselves the BRICS (an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) has just wound up its annual “summit,” this year held in New Delhi, India. In the twenty years since the BRICS …

Oct 29
Unearthing the Ground: Architecture and the Politics of Water

When the Ostrogoths besieged Rome in 537 AD, their first military act was to cut the aqueducts. Eleven gravity-fed channels supplied the city with up to a million cubic meters of water per day, more than enough to sustain a population of over a million, fill …

Oct 29
Iran in Port Sudan? The Next Threat to Asian Markets

The Red Sea corridor Asian trade depends on has another volatile shore, and almost nobody is watching it.