[ad_1] The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has played a rendition of Neil Young’s Rockin’ in the Free World with a local band at a bar called Diktat on his surprise trip to Kyiv. The song was released by Neil Young in 1989 after a planned concert in the Soviet Union was cancelled. Before […]

[ad_1] Multiple explosions were on Tuesday reported at the gas processing plant operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) at Gbarain, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the gas plant feeds the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) export terminal in Bonny Island, Rivers. Speaking […]

[ad_1] The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi, has said he was the highest beneficiary of the judiciary in the country when there were incorruptible judges. The former governor of Anambra State added that the judiciary in present-day Nigeria is weak and has been compromised by the executive […]

[ad_1] Victor Maphosa in SEOUL, South Korea AFRICA is widely perceived as the cradle of human kind and is gaining more attention as the youngest, fastest-growing and most dynamic continent on Earth, South Korea’s Foreign Affairs Minister Cho Tae-yul has said. Officially opening the Africa Culture Festival here on Friday last week, Minister Cho said […]

[ad_1] High-level OPEC officials unpacked the Organization’s short- to long-term crude oil market perspectives in a special session at the Invest in African Energy forum in Paris on Tuesday. Based on OPEC’s latest Monthly Oil Market Report – released on May 14 – and World Oil Outlook, the session identified key growth drivers of oil […]

[ad_1] Maximilian Krah, a leading member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), is standing down from the far-right party’s executive, party leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla told journalists in Berlin on Tuesday. Krah has been in the headlines for weeks following reports of possible links to pro-Russian networks and to China, as well as […]

[ad_1] Over 1,400 delegates, including 600 representing parties or signatories from over 150 countries and a significant delegation of Indigenous Peoples and other observer organizations, including women’s groups are attending two crucial biodiversity meetings in Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS by Stella Paul (nairobi) Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, May 14 (IPS) – […]

[ad_1] On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial ThoughtBy Musab YounisUniversity of California Press, 2022 Recently, as Netflix’s new science fiction series “3 Body Problem” captivates audiences globally, it has elegantly reminded social scientists of a profound notion: all humanity, long ensnared by the confines of sovereignty, struggles to unite in […]

[ad_1] We look into how the war on Gaza has been reshaping global perceptions among youth in the West and what potential reforms that might bring. Through a conversation with young online activists, we delve into some of the new shifts in young people’s perspectives of their governments, mainstream media, international law, Western democracy and […]

[ad_1] A Paris court has acquitted director Roman Polanski of defaming a British actor who accused him of raping her when she was a teenager. In 2019, he told Paris Match magazine that Charlotte Lewis had lied about being sexually assaulted by him four decades ago. Ms Lewis, 56, brought the case against the 90-year-old […]