Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang has died at 68, state media has reported. He was the second most powerful man in the ruling Chinese Communist Party until he retired last year. State media said he had been “resting” in Shanghai when he suffered a sudden heart attack on Thursday. He passed away ten minutes past […]
Las Vegas police Friday arrested a man in connection with the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur nearly three decades ago. The hip-hop legend was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. The identity of his killer is still a mystery. On Friday morning Las Vegas police arrested a man over […]
Quincy Zuma Wambitta Timberlake, a former Kenyan presidential candidate who sought refuge in Australia, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for the manslaughter of his three-year-old son, Sinclair, who tragically died in June 2014. Quincy Timberlake, now 43, pleaded guilty to the charges, and his sentencing took place at the Brisbane Supreme Court […]
Dianne Feinstein, the California senator who served for more than three decades and was a trailblazer for women in US politics, has died aged 90. Feinstein was the oldest member of the US Senate and voted as recently as Thursday. For months, the California Democrat had faced questions about alleged memory and cognitive issues. In […]
A Mozambican national, Lucky Mabunda, aged 47, has been sentenced to ten years of direct imprisonment by the Skukuza Regional Court for his involvement in the killing of a rhino within Kruger National Park back in 2019. This verdict comes while Mabunda was already serving a jail sentence for a similar rhino poaching offense. Lucky […]
AKPA Rating Agency has upgraded the ESG rating of Rosatom from ESG-3 (ESG-В) to ESG-2 (ESG-В) which corresponds to a very high level in environmental protection, social responsibility and management. Six main divisions of Rosatom – the Mining, the Power Generating, the Sale and Trading, the Fuel, the Engineering and the Machine Building – have […]
A 31-year-old man from the Northern Cape has been sentenced to life imprisonment for sexual assault accompanied by grievous bodily harm (GBH) and robbery with aggravating circumstances, involving his maternal aunt, who is his mother’s sister. The court learned that on the night of December 17, 2020, the nephew, who was residing with his aunt, […]
The United States National Security Agency (NSA) has unveiled plans for the establishment of an Artificial Intelligence Security Center dedicated to overseeing the development and integration of AI technologies within US defense and intelligence services. General Paul Nakasone, Director of the NSA and US Cyber Command, announced this initiative on Thursday, highlighting the growing significance […]
More than 2,500 people have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, the UN refugee agency said. The urgency revealed that approximately 186,000 people have arrived in European countries during the same period. Ruven Menikdiwela, director of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in […]
House Republicans have branded the first day of their impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden a success, saying they justified their case. But expert witnesses called by Republicans cautioned there was not yet enough proof for impeachment. Thursday’s hearing was dominated by the business dealings of the president’s son, Hunter, who Republicans allege was selling access […]
Chinese Premier Li Qiang said Thursday that China will adhere to the basic state policy of opening up, firmly follow the win-win strategy of opening up, work with all parties to practice genuine multilateralism, and achieve common growth through cooperation to deliver more benefits to people of all countries. Li made the remarks when meeting […]
Japanese researchers have made a significant discovery, confirming the presence of microplastics in clouds, potentially influencing climate dynamics in ways that are not yet fully comprehended. Published in the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, the study involved scientists ascending Mount Fuji and Mount Oyama in Japan to collect mist samples that envelop the peaks. Subsequent advanced […]
