The US took control of its fifth oil vessel in recent weeks on Friday in the latest move tied to the Donald Trump administration’s effort to control Venezuelan oil exports. In an early morning operation, a joint US Coast Guard and Navy team launched from the carrier USS Gerald R Ford apprehended the tanker Olina…
The EU has reached a free trade agreement with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, 25 years after talks began and despite opposition from farmers in several European countries. The deal with the Mercosur trading bloc will require the approval of the European parliament within the next few months Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva…
Following the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, US President Donald Trump has a stronger hand ahead of his summit with China’s President Xi Jinping in April. He has found a relatively effortless way to resolve the Venezuela issue, which has been a source of global concern for over a decade. Now he has a…
With awards season heating up, BAFTA has thrown in its two cents with strong showings for One Battle After Another, Hamnet and Sinners on its 2026 Film Awards longlists. Paul Thomas Anderson’s political thriller came out on top with 16 mentions on the longlists, closely followed by Chloé Zhao’s Shakespearean heartbreaker Hamnet and Ryan Coogler’s…
After years of chatbots and image generators, AI is finally leaving the screen. At CES 2026, that shift became impossible to ignore. The annual tech showcase in Las Vegas wasdominated by “physical AI”and robotics, from Boston Dynamic’s newly redesigned Atlas humanoid robot to AI-powered ice makers (yes, really). The companies in attendance clearly want consumers…
Meta today announced three deals to provide its data centers with nuclear power: one from a startup, one from a smaller energy company, and one from a larger company that already operates several nuclear reactors in the U.S. Oklo and TerraPower, two companies developing small modular reactors (SMR), each signed agreements with Meta to build…
Makuochi Okafor,BBC Africa, Lagosand Jean Otalor Reuters Last year, Trump declared Nigeria a “country of particular concern” because of what he said was the “existential threat” to its Christian population US President Donald Trump has warned that he could order more airstrikes on Nigeria if Christians continue to be killed in the West African nation….
US lawmakers voted on Thursday to revive health insurance subsidies that expired at the end of last year, offering hope to millions of Americans facing steep premium hikes – and pressuring the Senate to follow suit. The bill, which passed with Democratic support and backing from a small bloc of Republicans defying their own leadership,…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said his risky US gamble on Argentina’s currency has paid off. Bessent said American financial support had been repaid and the US no longer held any Argentine pesos in its exchange stabilisation fund. The US had purchased the then-plunging currency last year in an effort to stave off further turmoil…
After several missiles were fired at targets in western Ukraine’s Lvov region, the Russian Defense Ministryconfirmedon Friday morning that its formidable new Oreshniks had been used – for only the second time. Reports indicate that the Stryigas fieldandgas storage facilitywere among Ukrainian targets that were hit. Thefirst useof the hypersonic Oreshniks, featuring hard-to-defend-against MIRV payload,…
