ANKARA (AA) – One year into a devastating Israeli war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continue to be forcibly displaced across the Gaza Strip amid destruction, hunger, and fear. The Israeli army launched a brutal offensive on Gaza following a Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. It has killed nearly 42,000, mostly women and children, [&h...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria has announced that it will start selling crude oil in local currency instead of the US dollar. The latest announcement comes after several countries began selling oil and gas in local currencies following the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in February 2022. Mohammed Manga, director of Information an...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised to make Michigan the “car capital of the world again.” He says he will bring back thousands of jobs lost when General Motors moved more than a dozen factories to Mexico. The former president made similar promises to Rust belt states before he was elected in 2016. However, there [&hell...
A recent poll reveals that Kamala Harris’ economic policies are significantly more popular than those of Donald Trump. In a blind test of 12 proposals, four of the top five favored ideas were from Harris’s campaign, showcasing strong Democratic optimism for her presidential candidacy. The poll conducted exclusively for the British daily the Gu...
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies witnessed sharp decline after the recent assassination attempt on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, saw a decrease of 4.1% on Monday. Ethereum, the world’s largest altcoin, was at $2,288 at the time with a daily loss of more than 5%. The value of ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Republican candidate and former US President Donald Trump announced his new cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, in a livestream on Monday. “Crypto is one of those things we have to do,” Trump stated on X. “Whether we like it or not, I have to do it,” he added. During the livestream, Tr...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Israel’s war on Gaza has decimated the occupied Strip and devastated Gaza’s economy, shrinking it to less than one-sixth of its 2022 level, amid an “alarming decline” in the West Bank, the UN has said. Since Israel launched its genocidal offensive on the Gaza Strip more than 11 months ago...
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are both pushing against a $14.9 billion acquisition of US Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel. US Steel, once an industrial giant, has struggled to maintain its position in a globally competitive market. The proposed deal, seen as a potential way to counter China’s dominance in steel [&...
Islim Cheshma, Turkmenistan – AFP Afghanistan said Wednesday work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia as officials joined dignitaries in neighbouring Turkmenistan to celebrate its completion on that side of the border. Progress on the TAPI pipeline — running through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan an...
Lagos, Nigeria — AFP Weeks of fuel scarcities in Nigeria are compounding a cost-of-living crisis, with the state-run oil company acknowledging “financial strain” was hampering supplies. Olufemi Soneye, a spokesman for government-controlled Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), blamed the lingering scarcity on f...
