Mon 29 December 2025: Niger’s government on Friday adopted an ordinance authorizing nationwide mobilization, a move that would allow authorities to requisition citizens, property, and services to address internal and external threats. The decree was approved during a Council of Ministers meeting presided over by Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani and sets out measures for organizing and […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: The Nigerien government, meeting in a Council of Ministers on Friday, adopted a draft decree regulating ordinary and service electronic passports as well as the biometric national identity cards of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). According to the council’s statement, the measure aims to facilitate the free movement of persons […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: The main shooter and his accomplice in the killing of Bangladeshi political activist and 2024 uprising figure Sharif Osman Bin Hadi fled to India, Dhaka police said Sunday, adding that Indian police arrested two people for allegedly assisting their border crossing. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner SN Nazrul Islam shared the updates at a […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: An Australian-led study reveals how dying cells are cleared from the body, potentially aiding recovery from cancer, infections and inflammatory diseases. Scientists found that neighboring cells, not the dying cells themselves, play a key role in breaking them down, a media release from Australia’s La Trobe University said Thursday. Traditionally, it […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: High inflation and low growth will further the decline in UK living standards, pushing the country behind its economic peers, the UK-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) predicted. The forecast, set out in the CEBR’s annual World Economic League Table released on Friday, projects that the UK will fall […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: Which terms best represent 2025? Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English select a “word of the year.” Sometimes these terms are thematically related, particularly in the wake of world-altering events. “Pandemic,” “lockdown” and “coronavirus,” for example, were among the words […]
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Sat 27 December 2025: Prices of basic items like food are only expected to grow over the coming months as Iranians get poorer. Tehran, Iran – Iran’s currency has been registering new lows amid ongoing economic turmoil that is also reflected in a planned budget for next year that effectively shrinks public spending. Each United States […]
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Sat 27 December 2025: “Rage bait” has been named the word of the year by the Oxford University Press. It means social media content that is designed to create a strong and negative reaction. Posting content intended to antagonise people may not seem like a wise strategy for a social media influencer. But people who post content on […]
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Sat 27 December 2025: Alcohol consumption has emerged as one of Europe’s deadliest and most underestimated threats, with a World Health Organisation study revealing it plays a role in one in three deaths from injury and violence, a crisis that intensifies during holiday periods as drinking levels soar.According to a new factsheet by WHO/Europe based on 2019 […]
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Sat 27 December 2025: Fifteen years on, governments have outlawed protest, managed elections, and rewritten constitutions to ensure 2011 never happens again. Exactly 15 years ago, the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia prompted an unprecedented pan-Arab protest movement that demonstrated the overwhelming Arab desire for more democratic forms of government. In extraordinary scenes, millions of protesters […]
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