(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 23, 2019 US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Polish President Andrzej Duda during a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. – Polish President Andrzej Duda will be hoping for a pre-election windfall from a trip to Washington on June 24, […]
Minneapolis leaders voted unanimously Friday to disband the US city’s police force and replace it with a “community” safety department, a reaction to transformational changes demanded in mass protests against racial injustice. The plan comes three weeks after the death of African-American George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, a killing that sparked widespread calls […]
Arikana Chihombori-Quao warns against sending 300m Chinese to Africa by 2030 A former African Union Ambassador to the United States and president, Africa Diaspora Development Institute (ADDI), Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, and others have kicked against the maltreatment of Africans in China. ADDI is the umbrella organisation of over 210 million people living in the Diaspora. […]
Melinda Gates has slammed U.S. President Donald Trump for pulling funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) at a time of coronavirus pandemic. Melinda described Trump’s move as dangerous and nonsensical. She spoke Wednesday when she announced an extra $150 million of funding from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to WHO. The money is […]
The Vermont independent senator’s 2020 bid started off strong. Bernie Sanders has announced that he is ending his presidential campaign. The Vermont independent senator’s 2020 bid started off strong. He narrowly missed first place in Iowa before picking up wins in New Hampshire and Nevada. All the while, his campaign continued to rake in millions […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists and Internet Society today released a joint fact sheet that explains the importance of encryption to press freedom and the free flow of information. Encryption is the process of scrambling information so it can only be read by someone with the keys to open and unscramble the information. As such, […]
G20 leaders will hold an online videoconference today in a bid to fend off a coronavirus-triggered recession or even depression. The meeting, to be chaired by Saudi King Salman, is expected to be held at 1200 GMT. The group had faced criticism for being too slow in addressing the coronavirus crisis. US President Donald Trump […]
(CNN)Bill Clinton reflects emotionally in a new documentary about his 1990s affair with Monica Lewinsky, saying that he feels “terrible” the affair has defined the former White House intern’s life and seeks to explain the sexual relationship as something that he “did to manage my anxieties for years.”Clinton, asked why he entered into the relationship, says […]