President Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to Russia Saturday, Russian news outlets reported, as part of a trip where they are expected to present a new proposal to end the war in Ukraine. Mr. Trump told reporters on Friday he had sent the envoys with a proposal to end the conflict, which…
RugOne, a specialized subsidiary of rugged device manufacturer Ulefone, has officially introduced the Xsnap 7 Pro at IFA 2026 in Berlin. Setting itself apart from conventional smartphone form factors, the rugged handset features a detachable, magnetic camera module engineered to double as an independent action camera. Weighing just 39 grams, the compact, cube-shaped module captures…
United States President Donald Trump says Washington may strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain “very soon”, in just the latest in a series of threats he has made against the heavily fortified underground site located next to the bombed-out Natanz enrichment complex. Just hours after he made that threat, an Iranian oil tanker off Kharg Island was…
Tech personality Stafford Masie. (Source: Stafford Masie) As three suspended senior figures at Africa Bitcoin Corporation (ABC) gear up to fight a Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) enforcement order, well-known tech personality Stafford Masie has stepped into the CEO role. With the executives suspended, Masie, an existing ABC executive director, director of Bitcoin strategy and…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi on July 20, 2026 in Rome, Italy. Simona Granati | Corbis News | Getty Images Greater political stability under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government has boosted Italy’s appeal in the eyes of international investors, but the country’s former leaders say more needs to be done. Speaking to…
The Association of Comms & Technology (ACT), which represents South Africa’s biggest telecommunications operators, wants a five-year exemption from parts of the Competition Act so they can coordinate parts of their rural infrastructure roll-out. The pitch is simple – stop duplicating infrastructure, lower the cost of deployment and reach places that remain underserved. This is…
A suburban Illinois mother, who had become interested in the Lindsay Clancy case, has been charged with murder after she allegedly killed her 2-year-old son then attempted to harm herself, according to police and court records. A quiet street in the affluent village of Frankfort, Illinois, about 35 miles southwest of Chicago, became a scene…
Discovery Bank posted R370 million profit, while attracting 70% of new business from outside the Discovery Group. Discovery Bank has reported a normalised profit from operations of R370 million for the year ended 30 June 2026, marking a turnaround from the R68 million loss recorded in the previous period. The bank’s move into profitability comes…
Niger’s government is facing threats on two fronts: extremist militant groups attacking the state, and grievances within its armed forces responsible for fighting them. Africa Corps may have helped contain the latter this past weekend, but it has yet to resolve the former. Unlike Wagner mercenaries, whose status in a private military company allowed Moscow…
The Competition Commission has for the first time put hard numbers on how far South Africa’s township and rural businesses are shut out of online retail, and it points to informality, missing capabilities and weak infrastructure as the main reasons. The findings appear in the commission’s inaugural Rural and Township Economy Report, launched on Thursday…
