The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo on November 21, 2025. Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Shares of data center investment firm DigitalBridge surged as much as 50% in premarket trade on Monday, following a media report that Japan’s SoftBank is in advanced talks to acquire the…
The new leadership of CBS News is facing an outcry over alleged political interference in its coverage after a report on a controversial Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration has deported immigrants was pulled at the eleventh hour. Criticism of the network grew on Monday after an investigation into alleged abuses at El Salvador’s maximum…
BRUSSELS, Belgium – On 11 December, Spotlight Initiative hosted ‘A sustainable legacy: An intimate evening of conversation and insights from global leaders on how seed investments to end violence against women and girls deliver sustainable outcomes’. The event launched the Initiative’s sustainability report, which found that a remarkable 97 per cent of programme countries had…
African countries and their leaders must apply UN findings in comparable situations of violence, whether in Sudan, the DRC or elsewhere. Two months after the United Nations (UN) Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory concluded that a genocide was underway in Gaza, little has changed. Civilian deaths continue to mount, the…
An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults are satisfied with their health insurance coverage overall, including most older Americans and those on Medicare and Medicaid, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey. But there is an undercurrent of frustration in the findings, too, with nearly one-quarter of respondents saying they’d been…
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder and chief technology officer, appears at the Formula One British Grand Prix in Towcester, U.K., on July 6, 2025. Jay Hirano | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Oracle shares fell 7% in extended trading on Wednesday after the database software maker reported lower quarterly revenue than expected despite booming…
Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP speaking at the UNEA-7 meeting. PHOTO/UNEP. By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [email protected] The most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken has found that investing in a stable climate, healthy nature and land, and a pollution-free planet can deliver trillions in additional global GDP, avoid millions of deaths and lift…
Since 2000, most countries – across all income levels and regions – have made concurrent progress in expanding health service coverage and reducing the financial hardship associated with health costs, according to a new joint report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank Group. These two indicators are the foundation of universal…
The latest analytical report released by McKinsey & Company has showed that the African continent’s data centre market could unlock between $20 billion and $30 billion in annual revenue by 2030, driven by the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud adoption, and Data-intensive consumer services. The report however said capturing the $30 billion opportunity…
PRETORIA – Climate change is driving economic losses in developing nations. It’s slowing progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals and worsening threats such as infectious diseases, food insecurity, declining air quality, and mounting strain on health systems. This is according to a recently published health policy paper by Lancet Countdown Africa, a research collaboration hosted…
