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Anthony Joshua's 5 Most Probable Opponents Ranked by Likelihood, Earnings, & Chances of Winning
One of the great things about modern boxing is that one big win can make you a celebrity overnight. And that was the case most recently, on the 11th of October, when two heavyweights scored victories in separate bouts and immediately made their...

Pieces of Performance: Backstage Shade Festival quotables
Be sure to pay attention and learn your history. That blood, sweat, and tears ended slavery. As we watch abroad, we see the desecration of soil. While millionaires live in spoil. Now we fight once again to protect our rights. Through rallies and...

Illegal quarry ‘boss’ falls ill, taken to private hospital
News Gregory Mc Burnie 6 Hrs Ago Police vehicles including a mobile detention unit on site at the illegal quarrying plant in Manuel Congo, Guanapo on October 9. - Photo by Faith Ayoung The man described by police the "main boss" in a multi-million...
Alexander commends TTPS on bust at illegal quarry
Kejan Haynes Lead Editor - Newsgathering kejan.haynes@guardian.co.tt Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander has commended the T&T Police Service for what he described as “good work” during Thursday’s multi-agency raid...

Avian flu kills thousands of chickens in Iraq
2025-10-15T19:38:45+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Nineveh About 20,000 chickens died on Wednesday in Bashiqa near Mosul, after local authorities confirmed cases of avian influenza at two poultry farms. Ghazwan al-Dawoodi,...

19 held in quarry raid
A major illegal quarrying and mining operation in the Manuel Congo community of Guanapo was shut down early yesterday morning following a pre-dawn raid led by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS). The multi-agency operation, executed just...

Eni, YPF Move Closer To Final Decision On Major Argentina LNG Project
ENI S.p.A. (NYSE:E) shares fell Friday as the Italian energy major advanced plans for a large-scale liquefied natural gas hub in Argentina following high-level meetings in Buenos Aires. The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, met with Claudio...

Copper producer Aurubis held talks with US on support for new smelter
Germany's Aurubis is exploring US government support for a new copper smelter, following its recent recycling plant launch. Germany's Aurubis has held preliminary talks with the US government about support for a new copper smelter in the United...

French Group Wagas Plans to Build 1.5 Million Homes in Cameroon by 2035
(Business in Cameroon) - Wagas Group signed an MoU with Cameroon’s government to build 1.5 million homes by 2035. The project will rely on green bonds and sustainable financing mechanisms — a first in the Cemac region. A pilot phase in Ebolowa...

Melania Trump ditches strict fashion rule for the Navy's 250th anniversary
Niamh Spence Freelance Showbiz Reporter 18:05 ET, 05 Oct 2025 Melania Trump ditches strict fashion rules to wear MAGA hat at Navy's 250th anniversary alongside Donald Trump(Image: Getty Images) Melania Trump has appeared to flout her own style...

Spotlight: YC-backed Bujeti is building Africa’s financial control centre
When Bujeti made it into Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 cohort, it joined a rare club, one of just a handful of African startups to break through that year, even as the famed accelerator quietly scaled back its presence in emerging markets. For...

Afriland First Bank Poised for Regional Expansion After Cobac Approval
(Business in Cameroon) - The Central African Banking Commission (Cobac), the banking regulator of the six-nation CEMAC zone (Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, CAR, and Chad), has issued its first authorizations to open new bank branches...

Australia Gets Bulk of Chevron Payments to Governments
Chevron Corp has reported $14.21 billion in payments to governments for 2024 with Australia topping the list at $3.39 billion. That was more than Chevron's home country; the United States got $1.59 billion. The disclosure to the U.S. Securities...

Tariffs, chips, rare earths & US
Beijing has now struck back. On Oct 9, it imposed sweeping export controls on rare earths. World trade has entered a very volatile phase as US and China – the two pillars of the global economy – clash over technology, resources, and power. On Oct...

Russia Targets to Double Trade with Africa by 2030
Thu 09 Oct 2025 | 12:33 PM Russia is set to double its trade with African nations by 2030, according to Pavel Kalmychek, Director of the Department for Bipartite Cooperation Development at the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, according to...
Give refugees lives, not just camps
BY DION WATUNGWA & SIBONGILE NJOVO “THE world has moved on, but we are still here. It feels like we do not exist outside this camp,” said a young woman from Rwanda. “We eat once a day…when I feed my children, I pretend I am not hungry so that they...

EU commits $638 million to scale up renewables in nine African countries
The European Union has unveiled a €545 million ($638 million) package to accelerate renewable energy investment across Africa. The European Union has unveiled a €545 million ($638 million) package to accelerate renewable energy investment across...
Once a Nation, now just Postcodes
For most of our species’ history, human life was organised around small, mobile bands and village communities. Before civilisation, human groups were rule-governed but local: kinship, ritual and customary norms regulated life; enforcement rested...


Vitol Seals Acquisition of 30 Percent Stake in Ivorian Field
Eni SpA has completed a 30 percent farm-down of the producing Baleine field offshore Cote d'Ivoire to Vitol Group. "The transaction aligns with Eni's strategy of optimizing its upstream portfolio by accelerating the monetization of exploration...