JERUSALEM, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Palestinian militant group Hamas is set to hand over three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian detainees and prisoners in the latest stage of a ceasefire deal aimed at opening the way to ending the 15-month war in Gaza. Ohad Ben Ami and Eli Sharabi, both taken hostage […]
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Ukraine’s claim came just days after South Korea’s intelligence service stated that North Korean troops had been pulled back from the front lines. ADVERTISEMENT Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy has posted on X, that “Russia has once again deployed North Korean soldiers alongside its troops.” The post came just days after South Korea’s intelligence service stated
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Ablexu, a Congolese pop and R&B artist born and raised in Switzerland, uses his TikTok account of over two thousand followers to raise funds for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Despite being away from Congo, he is distressed by the lack of media coverage of the country’s ongoing crisis. Last year,
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Monrovia — The escalating violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has affected testing for the infectious mpox virus disease, which has afflicted thousands in the country and the wider region. Speaking at the weekly press briefing of the Africa Centers for Disease Control, the center’s Deputy Incident Manager in the DRC,
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From Kendrick Lamar’s potential ‘Not Like Us’ performance to high-profile trailers, this is what we’re excited for this Super Bowl Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT It’s Super Bowl Sunday this weekend. For the final match of the NFL season, two-time defending Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs will face the Philadelphia Eagles in a rematch of the previous
A trade war usually goes like this: one country imposes tariffs, essentially taxing products that come from another country. Then the other retaliates with tariffs on goods from the initiating country. That’s exactly what happened between the U.S. and China after the Trump Administration announced a 10% tariff on goods from China. China imposed retaliatory
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The 2025 UR³ Resilience Summit, convened by self-re-engineering and communication coach Stephanie “StephREDD” Kadiri, culminated in a groundbreaking two-day experience in Lagos, Nigeria. This year’s edition, themed “M.O.V.E: Maintain Optimism, Visualize & Engage,” brought together a diverse array of business leaders, professionals, and distinguished personalities to explore the art of thriving in an unpredictable world.
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This article was contributed by Damilola Adelekan, lead product manager at Remedial Health Solutions. Last year, at a small pharmacy in Lagos, I watched the owner scramble to communicate with multiple WhatsApp messages from suppliers while scanning his shelves for medicines past their expiry dates. In that moment, my decision to work in health tech
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Russian forces seized the nuclear plant after invading Ukraine in2022. They’ve held it ever since, but fighting around it has raised fears of a nuclear accident. ADVERTISEMENT The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said attacks around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have increased. Rafael Grossi made the remarks, reported by the
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James Akot has three goats. He shares them with his wife, his mother, three younger siblings, and two of his cousin’s children, in a household in Northern Bahr el Ghazal in South Sudan. The crops Akot’s family planted were washed away in the floods last year, the fourth and worst flood in the region in
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