Pissed-Off Doctors Aren’t Enough to Combat Trump’s Attacks on Public Health

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The Trump administration continues its grim dismantling of U.S. public health. Among an avalanche of public health reversals these...

Copper retreats after touching 16-month peak

LONDON: Copper prices briefly hit a 16-month peak on Wednesday due to worries about potential shortages from a series of mine disruptions, but it later retreated under pressure from a stronger dollar. Aluminium also touched its highest in 16...

The comfort food Mainers turn to in discomforting times

Unless your misfortune is skinned-knee sized, a bowl of chicken soup, a tray of lasagna or a warm chocolate chip cookie probably isn’t going to solve it. Still, in the tumultuous, deeply divided times we are living in, food can be a small comfort....

Copper Markets in Crisis After a Year of Disruptions

The global copper market has had quite the year. On September 8, approximately 800,000 tons of wet material flooded multiple levels of the Grasberg Block Cave mine in Papua, Indonesia, leading to the suspension of all underground operations. It...

Italy's Minister says Eni and Argentina's YPF are progressing with the Vaca Muerta Gas Project

Eni and Argentina’s YPF have made progress in the Vaca Muerta liquefied gas project, Italy’s foreign minister announced on Tuesday. A final investment decision is expected for this initiative soon. Antonio Tajani, who spoke at the Italy Latin...

Copper steady on expected market deficits from mine disruptions

Copper prices edged higher on Wednesday due to worries about potential shortages from a series of mine disruptions that lifted the market to a 16-month peak on Monday, but a stronger dollar curbed the gains. Three-month copper on the London Metal...

Brazilian Ambassador calls on Ghana’s climate minister ahead of COP30

The Brazilian Ambassador to Ghana, Mariana Gonçalves Madeira, paid a courtesy call on Seidu Issifu, Ghana’s Minister of State for Climate Change and Sustainability on October 8,2025. The meeting was joined by the Deputy Head of Mission, Micheal...

Where next for world heritage after Egypt finally wins top UNESCO position?

In what many celebrated as a historic moment and a national achievement for Egypt, former Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Enany was elected on Monday evening as director-general of UNESCO, the UN’s specialized agency for education,...

The best spooky and family-friendly Halloween 2025 events around Ireland

It's that time of the year again! Halloween is nearly upon us. Whether you're planning on doing something local, taking a staycation or embarking on a fun day trip, there's so many fun events planned across the country throughout the month. We...

Eyewitness: A whole lotta… oil

Remember that argument about “peak oil” that was (heatedly) going on around the time Exxon started pumping ours from under our Atlantic waters?? Predicting that we’d reached a tipping point when the world would be using so much renewable energy,...

KXEL Morning News for Wed. Oct. 08, 2025

From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom: The Trump Administration is expected to soon announce a $10 billion aid package for soybean farmers hurt by China’s embargo of the American crop. That boycott came after the President announced hikes in tariffs of...

FCX: Profiting from a Metal Powering the Modern World

Copper is not a hype story. It doesn’t rely on moonshot projections or retail euphoria. It’s not optional for the energy transition — it’s foundational. Investors can gain exposure through multiple strategies, including large-cap producers like...

From Stage to State House: How Tay Grin Could Redefine Arts and Culture Leadership in Malawi

Why the Nyau King’s vision makes him the perfect Presidential Advisor on Arts and Culture The Nyau king Tay Grin: When conversations arise about the creative economy in Malawi, one name consistently towers above the noise — Limbani Kalilani,...

This Week in Games - EA Games Gets Played

Welcome back, folks! I finally got to share my Digimon Story: Time Stranger review this week. It was definitely one of the most fun things I've worked on all year. I hope people enjoy the game for what it is. I sadly missed the boat on Cyber...

Donald Trump mocked over massive font for UN speech prompt cards

Trump rambled on for an hour during his speech(Image: AP) Donald Trump has been ridiculed after photos of his cue cards revealed they are penned in the same erratic style he uses for his tweets. A close-up of the prompt cards utilized during the...

Renaming the National Theatre after Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka

Nigeria’s political milieu, warts and all, is dynamic, feisty, loud, vibrant, winner-takes-all, and at times, quite literally, a do-or-die affair!Serious political gladiators of whichever ideological leanings, generally do not take prisoners....

Trump's massive font mocked after UN speech photo leak

Trump rambled on for an hour during his speech(Image: AP) Donald Trump has been mocked after pictures of his prompt cards show they are written in the same unhinged way he writes his tweets. A zoom in of the prompt cards used during the US...

Rubio credits Trump for breakthrough in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict

September 24, 2025 - 13:41 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that President Donald Trump invested more energy and effort than any other global leader in promoting peace, achieving tangible results in the process,...

At UNGA, Trump Says China And India ‘Primary Funders’ Of Russia-Ukraine War Through Oil Purchases

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused China and India of being the primary funders of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war by continuing to purchase Russian oil. He also noted that NATO nations have not fully cut off Russian energy and related...

'Your countries are going to hell': Trump berates Europe, slams United Nations

In a 55-minute speech on Tuesday that defied the very mission of the United Nations itself, US President Donald Trump called global warming "a con job", European policies on clean energy "suicidal", and accused the UN of offering little more than...