US Seals Migration Deal Allowing Costa Rica Deportations
Washington and San José formalised a deportation deal on Monday that will allow the United States to send up to 25 people at a time to Costa Rica — migrants who are not necessarily Costa Rican, deposited on Central American soil as part of the machinery of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, which has been […]
Golf Legend Woods Tees Up For Masters Preparation Run
Tiger Woods will step back into competitive golf on Tuesday night — not the walking kind, not the punishing four-day grind across wet fairways that his body has made increasingly clear it cannot sustain — but competition nonetheless, when he tees it up for Jupiter Links Golf Club in the Tomorrow’s Golf League finals in […]
Meloni’s Reform Push Crushed In Italian Referendum Defeat
The thing about political invincibility is that it exists entirely in other people’s minds. The moment they stop believing it, it vanishes — not gradually, like morning fog, but all at once, like light leaving a room when someone throws the switch. Giorgia Meloni learned this on Monday. Italy’s right-wing prime minister suffered her first […]
How Bola Tinubu Took Nigeria To Windsor To Sell It Out — Part 1
By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦. There are moments in politics when ceremony is not diplomacy but camouflage. The carriages, the polished brass, the choreography of smiles, the staged intimacy beneath chandeliers—all of it can function as a cosmetic shield for a government whose authority is eroding where it […]
Power Plant Attacks Will Trigger Retaliation, Iran Warns
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards drew a direct line Monday between any US or Israeli strike on Iranian power infrastructure and retaliatory attacks on electricity systems supplying Israel and American military bases across the region — a symmetrical threat that signals Tehran is moving toward a doctrine of matched infrastructure targeting as the war enters its fourth […]
Kim Jong Un Retains North Korea’s Top State Post – KCNA
Kim Jong-un was formally reappointed president of North Korea’s state affairs commission Sunday, extending his grip on the country’s highest state post into a third consecutive term while his parliament enacted a series of measures flowing from last month’s ruling party congress — including constitutional revisions whose content the government declined to disclose. The Supreme […]
Leftist Emmanuel Gregoire Captures Paris Mayoral Seat
France’s Socialist Party claimed the most symbolic prize in French municipal politics on Sunday as Emmanuel Grégoire won the Paris mayoralty, while the far-right National Rally fell short of breakthrough victories in Marseille and Toulon despite posting what its own leader called the strongest local election result in the party’s history. Grégoire, a 48-year-old former […]
Trump To Iran: Open Hormuz In 48hrs Or Lose Power Grid
Donald Trump issued Iran a 48-hour ultimatum Saturday to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on its power plants, a dramatic escalation that came less than 24 hours after the president had spoken of winding down the four-week-old war he launched alongside Israel against Tehran. Posting on Truth Social just before midnight […]
UN Chief Claims Cooperation With Trump’s Gaza Peace Board
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has acknowledged cooperating with Donald Trump’s rival international body on Gaza reconstruction while dismissing the broader organisation as a personal vanity project that bypasses the multilateral principles the United Nations was built on — as the world’s foremost diplomat pushes to insert the UN into efforts to defuse the Hormuz crisis […]
Chuck Norris, Karate Champion Turned Film Star, Dies At 86
Chuck Norris, the martial artist and actor who turned authentic combat credentials into a Hollywood career spanning five decades and became one of the most recognisable action stars of his generation, died Thursday in Hawaii at the age of 86. His family announced the death on Instagram, saying he passed suddenly on Thursday morning. “To […]
Elon Musk Found Guilty Of Misleading Twitter Shareholders
A San Francisco jury found Elon Musk liable Friday for intentionally misleading Twitter investors during the chaotic months of his 2022 acquisition of the social media platform, delivering a unanimous verdict that could cost the world’s richest man hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and represents one of the most significant legal defeats of […]
War-Hit Gulf Nations Secure $16bn In US Military Hardware
The United States has approved $16.46 billion in emergency arms sales to Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, rushing air defence systems, counter-drone technology and advanced munitions to Gulf allies absorbing sustained Iranian missile and drone strikes in the weeks since US and Israeli forces launched their campaign against Tehran. Secretary of State Marco Rubio […]