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There’s plenty of uncertainty to go around this year, including a global trade war, shifting policy priorities, and an economy that’s starting to stumble. Breakthrough Energy, a climate tech organization founded by Bill Gates, has also been shifting in response. The group always placed long bets, though it appears to be reappraising some of them. Its policy team was scrapped in March, for example, and it didn’t continue funding a publication that covered the climate tech world. Still, its investments in startups continue, as does its longest bet, a fellowship program for budding entrepreneurs. Breakthrough Energy Fellows, as the program…

The Israeli military has said that its planned operation in Gaza City would prevent Hamas fighters from regrouping and planning future attacks. Israel entered Gaza City earlier in the war, but said this time it would move into parts of the city that Israeli soldiers have not previously attacked or held.The risks to civilians who leave — and those who stay — are enormous. Further intensification of military operations in Gaza City would cause a “catastrophe” for civilians, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has warned.Gaza City and the surrounding region are officially suffering from famine, the Integrated…

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Julien Duvivier’s mysterious and passionately despairing 1937 movie is rereleased, with its luminous lead performance from Jean Gabin as a charismatic Parisian criminal hiding out in the labyrinthine Casbah of Algiers; he is protected there by the dense polyglot population of Indigenous locals that the French colonial authorities consider it imprudent to provoke. He is effectively given sanctuary, but also imprisoned in the unpoliceable, unknowable quarter that, like Polanski’s Chinatown, is a place that baffles and thwarts the imperial powers-that-be.It was a film remade by Hollywood in 1938 as Algiers, which was the debut of Hedy Lamarr and made a…

67 Ride-hailing platform Bolt has revealed that its highest-earning drivers in Kenya grossed more than KSh1.2 million each in the first half of 2025, showing the growing profitability of gig work in the country’s expanding digital transport sector. According to the company, its top 50 drivers made an average of KSh1.28 million between January and June, which translates to about KSh213,000 monthly. This figure is significantly higher than the typical salary of many white-collar workers in Kenya and highlights how the ride-hailing industry is reshaping income opportunities in urban centres. The company explained that the reported earnings include trip payments,…

The Ha Tšosane community has been fighting to close and relocate the dump for years Residents near Maseru’s Tšosane dumpsite have been choking on smoke since Saturday night. The community won a court settlement in February 2023, requiring Maseru City Council to relocate the dump to Tšoeneng, but no progress has been made. The department told Parliament that R400-million was needed for a new landfill. Maseru residents living near the Tšosane dumpsite have been choked by smoke from a fire that has been ablaze since Saturday night. Keep up with the latest headlines on WhatsApp | LinkedIn Mapakalitha Maishi, a…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe New Road outfield looks like the circus has been in town. Shazzad making Tongue prod and poke, but he survives. 17 needed.ShareJosh Tongue gets off the mark with a nudge down to the rope, beating a disconsolate fielder. Khurram Shahzad gets the cherry with the fat lady warming up. 17 needed.ShareNotts seven down! 22 neededPatterson-White cuts four more, then pushes at Allison and gets a nibble through to Roderick. Worcs are cock-a-hoop. 22 needed.ShareAllison delivers a long hop and Patterson-White says thanks very much. We get a close…

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning about what it calls the “worrying trend” of students hacking their own school and college IT systems for fun or as part of dares.It has told teachers that they are failing to understand and recognise what it calls the “insider threat” pupils pose. It says more the majority of so-called “insider” cyber attacks and data breaches in education settings – meaning they have been carried out by someone with access to internal systems – originate with students.”What starts out as a dare, a challenge, a bit of fun in a school…

Focusing only on Boko Haram’s ISWAP faction is no longer an option for the region’s security forces. After being weakened by years of clashes with rival Boko Haram faction Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) is making a comeback in the Lake Chad Basin. Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria’s intensified national counter-terrorism operations and coordinated aerial and ground assaults have slowed down ISWAP’s Camp Holocaust campaign. But the focus on ISWAP has allowed JAS to regroup and bolster itself. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Added to this is the…

Bridget Jones’s Diary star Sally Phillips is set to lead a new BBC crime drama, The Hairdresser Mysteries. Created and written by Jim Cartwright (The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Afternoon Play), the six-episode show is described as “a nostalgic nod to the ’70s” where high-end hairdresser Lily Petal (Phillips) opts out of the competitive city scene to buy a small village salon at the top of a cobbled street. “Everyone tells their hairdresser everything and soon she becomes the hub of her new village’s secrets and revelations,” a plot synopsis reads. “Using her own brand of uncannily…