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The ISIS extremist group said Wednesday that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and announced a replacement. A spokesman for the group said Hashimi, an Iraqi, was killed “in combat with enemies of God”, without elaborating on the date of his death or the circumstances. Speaking in an audio message, […]

A trio of Long Island colleges will receive $46.5 million in state funds to develop technology training, jobs and infrastructure, Gov. Hochul announced on Tuesday. The investments will assist in making Long Island “the country’s premiere corridor for research and innovation,” the governor said during an event at Long Island University in Brookville. “The awards […]

Dozens of nurses packed into a City Council hearing Wednesday to sound the alarm over dangerously low staffing levels. These shortages have been decried before, during and after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to hours of testimony Wednesday afternoon, the nurses and their union, the New York State Nurses Association, held a protest […]

Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said in an interview published on Wednesday that he discussed nuclear issues and Ukraine in a meeting earlier this month with United States Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns. The two men met in Turkey on November 14 in the highest-level face-to-face contact between the two sides since Russia […]

Some civil rights groups are condemning the mayor’s controversial plan to force homeless people who are determined to be suffering a “mental health crisis” off the streets and out of the subway system. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the NYPD, FDNY, and other city agencies will start forcing homeless people who are determined […]

A billionaire investor with ties to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of raping a young mother at Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion under New York’s new Adult Survivor’s Act. Epstein’s estate was also named as a defendant. The alleged victim claimed that Leon Black, once one of the most powerful men on […]

The legendary musician, composer and producer passed away Tuesday night. Njie has been at the centre of Gambian music scene for over 50 years. He is the founder member of Super Eagles, one of the most successful Gambian music group of all time. The group inspired a generation of musicians from the Senegambia region including […]

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin has died at the age of 96, Chinese state media reported. Jiang died at 12:13pm (04:13 GMT) from leukaemia and multiple organ failure in the city of Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday, publishing a letter to the Chinese people by the ruling Communist Party, parliament, cabinet […]

Kalidou Koulibaly’s nerveless volley sent Senegal into the World Cup’s knockout stages for only the second time in their history as they eliminated Ecuador at a rowdy Khalifa International Stadium.All three goals came from players based in England as Ecuador’s Brighton midfielder Moises Caicedo cancelled out a penalty by Watford’s Ismaila Sarr before Chelsea defender […]

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called upon the Internet Governance Forum to develop ‘implementable’ proposals towards digital transformation. The 17th Annual Internet Governance Forum under the overarching theme Resilient Internet for a Shared Sustainable and Common Future, has commenced in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is scheduled to run from 28 November to 2 December […]

Hong Kong-based digital asset company Amber Group announced the death of Tiantian Kullander on its website. He reportedly died unexpectedly in his sleep on November 23, 2022. “Tiantian (or “TT”, as he was lovingly known) was instrumental to the founding of Amber and a pillar of our success. He put his heart and soul into […]

QatarEnergy and ConocoPhillips on Tuesday signed two sales and purchase agreements to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Germany for at least 15 years from 2026, the first such supply deal to Europe from Qatar’s North Field expansion project. The deal will provide Germany with 2 million tonnes of LNG annually, arriving from Ras Laffan […]

The United Arab Emirates’ Rashid Rover, the first Emirati mission to the moon surface, has been integrated onto a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for its historic launch on Wednesday. The four-wheel rover has undergone its final integration process with the launch vehicle – the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander – which will launch from a spaceport […]

Electricity shortages that have been plaguing Zimbabwe are set to worsen after an authority that manages the country’s biggest dam said water levels are now too low to continue power generation activities. In a letter dated Nov. 25 and seen by Reuters, the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) told the Zimbabwe Power Company that the Kariba […]

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country’s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government’s response to the disease was succeeding. Movement in and out of Mubende and Kassanda districts in central Uganda will be restricted up to December 17, the presidency […]

A former US military pilot has been placed under “extreme” restrictions inside an Australian prison while fighting a secretive extradition battle with the Department of Justice in Washington, his lawyer said following a court hearing Monday. Ex-Marine Daniel Edmund Duggan was arrested in New South Wales on October 21, the same week Britain and Australia […]

Farideh Moradkhani, a niece of Iran’s supreme leader and an outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic, has declared her support for the ongoing anti-regime protests in the country and called on the international community to support Iranian protesters. Moradkhani, whose mother Badri Khamenei is the sister of Iran’s current top leader Ali Khamenei, described the […]

Sponsored by Saudi Arabia, the Arab Monetary Fund signed a $1 billion agreement with the Yemeni government to support an economic, financial and monetary reform program, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Sunday. The Kingdom’s Finance Minister Mohammed bin Abdullah al-Jadaan said that the program aims to help support the Yemeni government’s effort […]