President Emmanuel Macron has said France’s military operation in the violence-hit Sahel region of West Africa will no longer exist in its current form, adding that it will be replaced by another mission of French troops that will further rely on other partners. “The time […]
An internal investigation into the forcible clearing of racial justice demonstrators in Washington, DC, was not influenced by former President Donald Trump’s plans to be photographed outside a church while holding a Bible. The report released on Wednesday by the Interior Department’s inspector general concludes […]
The Bitcoin Mining Council made its formal debut Thursday amid a growing debate over the amount of energy used in cryptocurrencies. “The Bitcoin Mining Council is a voluntary and open forum of Bitcoin miners committed to the network and its core principles,” MicroStrategy Inc. Chief […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed US President Joe Biden as “a big breath of fresh air” and played down differences about the effect of Brexit on the peace agreement in Northern Ireland, after they met on the eve of the G7 summit. The […]
United States President Joe Biden has announced a donation of 500 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to the world’s poorest countries to help speed the pandemic’s end, with “no strings attached”. Biden, keen to burnish his multilateral credentials on his first foreign trip […]
A non-fungible token of a digital artwork called a “CryptoPunk” sold for $11.8m on Thursday, auction house Sotheby’s said. CryptoPunks are a set of 10,000-pixel art characters made by Larva Labs in 2017. The one sold by Sotheby’s – “CryptoPunk #7523” – is of a […]
Firmin Ngrebada, prime minister of the Central African Republic (CAR), has resigned along with the entire cabinet, the latest political crisis to hit the war-weary country. The development on Thursday came during a turbulent week after France announced it was suspending military operations with its […]
The Anglo-Dutch oil giant is moving towards green energy, which also means shedding 9,000 jobs over the next two years. Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/6/10/will-oil-giants-give-way-to-environmentalists
An Israeli court has postponed a hearing in the case of two Palestinian families facing forced displacement from their homes in the Batn al-Hawa area in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan. The Ghaith and Abu Nab families were joined by a group of […]
United States government employees should not be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to their workplaces or made to disclose their vaccination status, according to guidance set to be released by the administration of US President Joe Biden on Thursday. Workers may voluntarily […]
