21m ago Oil prices inch back up amid attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz The price of Brent crude oil, the international standard, rose about 2.5% on Tuesday to trade at $73.83 a barrel as Iran launched attacks on several vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. staple West Texas Intermediate crude was…
Reacting to the decision by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to deposit formal notifications of withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “This decision by the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger threatens to deny thousands of victims the…
Poland says it’s taking a stand over a bloody massacre. Ukraine says it’s a needless affront to a nation fighting for survival. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. Kyiv and its allies may be feeling pretty good about the present state of the war with…
Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday on “CBS Mornings” that the text of the U.S.-Iran deal would be released Friday “at the latest,” adding that the White House is pushing to release it sooner. Vance said Qatari and Pakistani negotiators, who helped mediate the agreement, “asked us not to release the full text for a…
External funding cuts, a backlash against human rights, and chronic under-investment in HIV prevention and community services are threatening to reverse years of hard-won progress in the AIDS response, a UN report warned on Friday. “There’s no question that this is the most serious disruption in the HIV response since the world came together to…
Stepping up the pressure before the upcoming G7 conference in France, US President Donald Trump has renewed threats to hit the country with massive retaliatory tariffs unless it repeals its controversial digital services tax. Read: Siri AI: A deep dive into Apple’s new intelligent assistant The primary target of the administration’s focus is France’s 3%…
The Federal Government, Thursday, disclosed that it was considering taking the issue of recurring xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa to the African Union, AU, to seek a permanent solution. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Sola Enikanolaiye, said Africa, as a continent, must recognise the need to do more to protect the lives…
Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters Eskom has issued a formal notice of its intention to reduce, interrupt or terminate electricity supply to several bulk supply points serving the City of Johannesburg, after arrear debt owed by the metro and its distributor, City Power, climbed past R5.2-billion. In a media statement on Tuesday evening, the utility said the City…
Peace talks remain deadlocked as drones hit sites in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
11m ago Trump says Iran went back on allowing U.S. to remove highly enriched uranium President Trump said Monday that Iran had informed his administration it would allow the U.S. to come in and help extract its highly enriched uranium, but that Tehran retracted that offer in its latest ceasefire proposal. “They changed their…
