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Without evidence, Trump and his allies accuse former US special prosecutor of illegal political activity.Officials in the United States have launched an investigation into Jack Smith, the former special prosecutor who led two cases against Donald Trump, US media outlets are reporting.The Associated Press, NBC News and other US news outlets confirmed on Saturday that the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency, has opened an investigation into Smith on allegations of illegal political activity.Without offering any evidence of wrongdoing, Trump and his Republican allies, including Senator Tom Cotton, have accused Smith of violating the Hatch Act, a federal law…

Blazes across several Canadian provinces and territories pose health risks to Canadians and their southern neighbours.Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada has triggered air quality alerts over the border in the United States.Several blazes continued to rage across Canada on Saturday, sending smoke wafting over several states in the US Midwest and bringing warnings of unhealthy air for at least the third day.Air quality alerts were in effect in the US states of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, as well as eastern Nebraska and parts of Indiana and Illinois.Conditions were especially dire in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with the Switzerland-based air quality…

Asari Ndem (Lead writer) There is the quiet fear creeping into many Nigerian households, after the United States government passed a sweeping new economic reform bill that includes a 1% tax on all remittances sent abroad. While this may sound like a marginal policy change in America, its implications for health in low- and middle-income countries like Nigeria are profound. For years, remittances, the money Nigerians abroad send home, have functioned as an informal but critical health safety net for many. They help families pay for everything from routine health check-ups to life-saving surgeries, as well as basic needs like…

The future of the renewable energy sector is female and Electricity and Energy Deputy Minister, Samantha Graham-Maré, is doubling down to make it happen. In an exclusive interview with SAnews on the sidelines of the Empowering Women in Energy breakfast, Graham-Maré revealed plans to review the department’s gender strategy to make it better equipped to shatter barriers and catapult women into leadership roles across electricity, renewables and previously uncharted fields like green hydrogen. The event was held as part of the third G20 Energy Transitions Working Group (ETWG) in the North West. “[The review is] giving us an opportunity to…

“This could be the holy grail:” Watch the Rhisotope team prepare to inject a rhino’s horn with radioactive materialSouth African scientists have launched an anti-poaching campaign in which rhinos’ horns will be injected with a radioactive material.The group, from the University of the Witwatersrand, said the process is harmless to rhinos but will allow customs officers to detect smuggled horns as they’re transported across the world.South Africa has the largest rhino population in the world, and hundreds of the animals are poached there every year.The university’s venture, called the Rhisotope Project, cost around £220,000 ($290,000) and involved six years of…

Adam Lambert is championing Cynthia Erivo in Jesus Christ Superstar, despite backlash surrounding her casting as the titular role. In Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical, the Tony Award winner portrayed Jesus alongside the American Idol alum as Judas at the Hollywood Bowl for the first three nights of August.  When news of Erivo’s casting was announced, it was criticized because she is a Black queer woman. However, Lambert doesn’t share the same concerns, and admitted in an interview with Billboard that he was “excited by the challenge” of the Oscar nominee leading Jesus Christ Superstar.   “Cynthia’s brilliant. Her…

Barcelona players will have “DR Congo – Heart of Africa” emblazoned on the back of their training shirts from the start of next season, after the top Spanish football team agreed on a four-year deal with the central African country.The partnership will reportedly cost the Democratic Republic of Congo 44m euros ($50m; £38m), although the club has not disclosed the figure it will receive.A rebel group has seized large parts of eastern DR Congo this year, although a ceasefire has recently been agreed.The arrangement has faced criticism from some Congolese who have questioned their government’s priorities, especially as its own…

Defence Ministry accuses Kurdish-led SDF of injuring four army personnel and three civilians in rocket attack near Manbij.Syria’s Ministry of Defence has accused the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of carrying out a rocket attack on a military position in northern Syria, injuring four army personnel and three civilians.In a statement carried by Syria’s official SANA news agency, the ministry said the military was able to repel the attack in the countryside of the city of Manbij.“The army forces are working to deal with the sources of fire that targeted the civilian villages near the deployment lines,” the ministry said,…

Six years ago, Melbourne-based film-maker Kristina Kraskov read an article about an international Microsoft Excel competition and had two thoughts. The first: “What the hell, that can’t be real.” The second: “There’s got to be a film about this – I want to watch it so badly.”There wasn’t a film about competitive spreadsheeting, so Kraskov decided to make it herself. The subject appealed to the director, whose work captures “different inner worlds that are a bit unusual on the outside”, including a short film titled Party in the Back, about a mullet festival.Spreadsheet Champions, which will screen at the Melbourne…