Trump likely to decouple the world’s most important geopolitical relationship and increase risk of global disruption COMMENT | IAN BREMMER | Donald Trump’s return to the White House will almost certainly trigger an unmanaged decoupling of the world’s most important geopolitical relationship, increasing the risk of global economic disruption and crisis. …
Read More »TASS: US ramping up biological warfare presence in Africa
MOSCOW, RUSSIA | TASS | The documents available to the Russian Defense Ministry show that the United States is ramping up its biological warfare presence on the African continent, Deputy Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops Major General Aleksey Rtishchev told a briefing on Tuesday. “The documents …
Read More »Ebola virus samples smuggled from Africa to US
MOSCOW, RUSSIA | TASS | Representatives of the Metabiota company illegally exported samples of the Ebola virus from Africa and transferred them to the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, the Deputy Head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces, Major General Alexey Rtischev has said. “According …
Read More »TikTok asks U.S. Supreme Court to block looming ban
WASHINGTON | Xinhua | TikTok on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a law that would ban the video-sharing app if ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, doesn’t sell it to a non-Chinese buyer by Jan. 19. “The Act will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the …
Read More »The US-Africa Axis in 2025 and Beyond
What does Trump’s victory in America mean for relations between the US and Africa in general, and between America and Uganda in particular? Good question, and it’s one that has certainly been discussed at length over the course of …
Read More »The end of US democracy was all too predictable
Philosophers have understood how demagogues come to power in free and fair elections, only to overthrow democracy and establish tyrannical rule COMMENT | JASON STANLEY | Like others, since late Tuesday night (November 5), my phone has been blaring with text messages asking how this could have happened (as some of …
Read More »U.S. stocks advance on upbeat investors’ sentiment over U.S. election
NEW YORK | Xinhua | U.S. stocks surged on Tuesday as voters headed to the polls on Election Day, reflecting market optimism and hopes for a positive outcome in the election amid strong trading activity. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 427.28 points, or 1.02 percent, to 42,221.88. The S&P …
Read More »Anomalies grip final stretch of U.S. election
WASHINGTON | Xinhua | U.S. Election Day is a week away. Both parties are neck and neck, tirelessly drumming up support while ramping up their attacks on each other. A wave of chaos has surfaced ahead of what some political experts call “the most consequential election” in U.S. history for …
Read More »Two giant pandas from China arrive in Washington
WASHINGTON | Xinhua | A pair of giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, arrived at Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, after an approximately 19-hour trans-Pacific trip from Sichuan Province in southwest China. A dedicated “FedEx Panda Express” Boeing 777F aircraft landed at the Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. …
Read More »KAMALA: Domestic problems should not make US stop support to other states
WASHINGTON | TASS | Vice President Kamala Harris, who is running for the US presidency, believes that Washington should not end its support to other countries for the sake of resolving domestic issues. During an interview to iHeartRadio, Harris was asked why Washington is helping others despite acute domestic problems. …
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