The government of Ghana announced on Saturday its decision to resume the evacuation of its nationals from South Africa amid persistent xenophobic attacks. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the first batch of evacuees would arrive this Sunday, followed by another batch on Monday. “The latestContinue Reading
Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Sunday said Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea “cannot go unanswered.” In a post on the social media platform X, Araghchi accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of ordering “a blatant UN Charter violation done at Israel’s behestContinue Reading
Brazil’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday recalled its ambassador to Argentina, Julio Bitelli, for consultations on relations between the two countries. Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira made the decision Sunday morning after consulting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Argentine President Javier Milei attended the national convention of Brazil’s LiberalContinue Reading
In major ports along China’s southeast coast, Chinese-made electric vehicles roll nonstop onto car-carrier ships bound for every corner of the globe. But for China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) industry, loading containers is no longer the endgame — it is merely the first step. Now the world’s largest NEVContinue Reading
Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned a Ukrainian attack earlier in the day against an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea that led to the vessel’s explosion and a sailor’s death. The ministry said in a statement that the attack, carried out by the Ukrainian government, also leftContinue Reading
By our Correspondent The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe had along with Power industry stakeholders flagged off the Power Force Programme, a national initiative under the Presidential Metering Initiative to train 5,000 young Nigerians as certified meter installation technicians. According Tegbe, the initiative responds directly to one of theContinue Reading
The heads of state of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) will consider a decision on establishing co-operation between the organisation’s Secretariat and the African Union (AU) at the summit in Bishkek. This was announced by the organisation’s Secretary-General Nurlan Yermekbayev at a meeting of the SCO Council of ForeignContinue Reading
Global Times The awarding of the Fields Medal to Chinese mathematicians Deng Yu and Wang Hong has drawn widespread attention both in China and abroad, with the news becoming one of the top trending topics on Chinese social media. The relevant topics such as “Wang is only 35 yearsContinue Reading
Global Times By a three-to-one margin, Americans are more likely to say that China, not the US, is more advanced when it comes to developing artificial intelligence, according to a Pew Research Centre survey. Released on Thursday, the survey was conducted in June and polled a total of 3,488Continue Reading
–– says expenditure controls prevented PEAC/PFIPC funds from becoming public spending By Our Correspondent The Budget Office of the Federation has declared that the said ₦1.3 billion appropriated by the National Assembly for the Presidential Economic Advisory Council/Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PEAC/PFIPC) never became public expenditure, asContinue Reading
