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Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), essential for global clean energy technologies, presents a paradox for the global energy transition. While the country supplies more than 70 percent of the world’s cobalt for electric vehicles and renewable energy systems, mining continues to undermine local health, ecosystems, and climate resilience. Unless mining governance is integrated with broader climate adaptation frameworks – through ecosystem protection, community health safeguards, equitable finance, and robust land-use regulation – the very minerals enabling global decarbonization may deepen vulnerability in producing regions, according to Hassan Alzain and Kibiriti Majuto from the Yale School…

Margaret Atwood has released a new short story critiquing elected officials for a wide-ranging book ban in the Canadian province of Alberta. The controversial decision to remove books purportedly containing “explicit sexual content” has seen numerous works of literature swept up in the dragnet, including Atwood’s dystopian work The Handmaid’s Tale.In a social media post, Atwood wrote that since her famed work was no longer permissible in Alberta schools, she had written a “suitable” short work for teens, adding the work was necessary because the province’s minister of education thought students were “stupid babies”.The extremely brief story traces the lives…

Durban is once again poised to take centre stage as it prepares to host the highly anticipated reSURGEnce Conference Durban 2025, set for 20-24 September, at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre. Building on the success of last year’s groundbreaking edition, the 2025 conference promises to be bigger, bolder, and more impactful. Held under the theme: “A Thicker Slice of the Economic Pie: Access. Connect. Thrive,” the programme includes an international exhibition, a two-day conference, and business-to-business engagements aimed at advancing trade and investment. The event will bring together entrepreneurs, investors, clergy, creatives, and changemakers from across Africa, the…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureNot long now: Both sets of players line up in the tunnel and are led out on to the pitch by Spanish referee Alejandro Hernandez and his team of match officials. It’s coming up to 7pm local time in Astana and kick-off is just a few minutes away.ShareUpdated at 09.56 EDTCraig Bellamy: “No matter what, it’s going to be a difficult game,” said the Wales manager ahead of today’s qualifier. “Playing [Kazakhstan] at home in Cardiff was a good challenge as well, how they set up, how they look to…

9:30 a.m. Breakfast by the sea Start your day with a leisurely beachfront breakfast at Bar Casino, in a 19th century mansion with a facade adorned with portraits of famous explorers including Magellan and Columbus. The building never actually served as a gambling institution: “Casinos” were social clubs that sprung up across Catalonia in the 1800s, created to host all manner of public meetings and performances. Today, it’s a no-frills bar and cafe where €10 will get you a cup of coffee, a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice and a crusty bread roll (entrepà) stuffed with Ibérico ham. Pull…

81 The International African Energy, Oil and Gas Summit (IAEOGS) will return to Windhoek, Namibia, from October 6 to 9, 2025, for its fourth edition. The organisers say the summit has become one of the biggest investment platforms in Africa, bringing together financiers, project developers, and major stakeholders in the oil, gas, and renewable energy industry. According to a statement released on Wednesday, the summit is coming at a time when Africa’s energy sector is recording major attention from global investors. In 2024 alone, the continent attracted over 120 billion dollars in new investments, with about 75 billion dollars directed…

Israel, with the complicity of the United States, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the population, as well as direct mass murders and the physical destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. Israel does the dirty work. The US government funds it and provides diplomatic cover through its veto power at the United Nations. Palantir, through Lavender, provides the artificial intelligence for efficient mass murder. Microsoft, through Azure cloud services, and Google and Amazon, through the Nimbus initiative, supply core tech infrastructure for the Israeli army.This marks 21st-century war crimes as an Israel-US public-private partnership. Israel’s mass starvation of the…

This will be the fourth time Israel tries to remove Hamas from Gaza City

Inside the cavern of Catch One nightclub on the last Friday in August, neon laser beams shower the dance floor and bodies sway in devotional harmony, as ravers from every corner of Los Angeles flock to deliver an offering at the altar of Labubu.Everyone is here. The true believers and truly curious, the trend chasers, the nightlife purists, the wannabe influencers, the party crashers, and those who simply want to be seen.It’s a celebration of Labubu, the furry Ewok-like collectible that, in an age of fly-by-night TikTok trends, AI influencers, and cheap hype, seems to have become a bona fide…

Western leaders meeting with Zelenskyy and US envoy at Ukraine summit in Paris as they draw up plans to deploy troops.Published On 4 Sep 20254 Sep 2025Western leaders have held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris over the prospect of providing security guarantees in the event of a peace deal with Russia.The summit in Paris on Thursday brings together leaders from Europe, Australia, Japan and Canada, as well as Zelenskyy and United States envoy Steve Witkoff. Even as negotiations over a ceasefire continue to stall, however, the bid to agree security guarantees for Kyiv remains mired in uncertainty.The…