The Nigerian government announced in late April that Danish shipping giant Maersk would invest $600 million in the country.

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Kenya’s defence chief, General Francis Ogolla, and nine other senior officers were killed in a helicopter crash in mid-April.

False information spreading online was rife ahead of India's national elections. In one case, a video of popular actor Allu ...

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Global energy storage platform provider Powin LLC (Powin) today announced its new multi-cell-based hardware platform, the ...

Aqara, a leading provider of smart home products, announced the global availability of its next-generation Matter hub, the Hub M3. Designed with a focus on edge computing, the M3 prioritizes privacy ...

EDXM Global (EDXMG), a fast-growing digital asset company for institutional customers, announced today the launch of its settlement platform. EDXM Global sets a new standard in the digital asset ...

Soon after the US House of Representatives passed a bill in May 2024 to codify a definition of anti-Semitism into federal civil rights law, some detractors said it would effectively prohibit Americans ...

Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, close to the quake's epicentre, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the ...

As Israel sends tanks into Rafah, X accounts downplaying the civilian toll of the Israel-Hamas war are claiming a video shows Palestinians putting on makeup and preparing to fake their deaths. This is ...