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A solar-powered car race started on Sunday in Australia, with 34 teams from all over the world competing to win the 2025 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.The teams were greeted by people waiting to see the vehicles embark on their 3,000-kilometre (1,864-mile) journey across the outback, from Darwin to Adelaide.The first vehicles are expected to start arriving in Adelaide on August 28th with the event closing on August 31st.

Nigeria’s military has killed 35 jihadists in a series of air strikes near its north-eastern border with Cameroon, it said in a statement. The strikes were carried out in four areas to thwart an attempt by the jihadists to attack ground troops, the military added. Nigeria has been battling jihadist groups for more than a decade, as well as violent criminal gangs, sectarian conflict and widespread kidnappings for ransom. On Saturday, a group of prominent Nigerians, including ex-government ministers, business persons and civil society activists, issued a statement, raising concern that parts of Nigeria were enduring “war-time levels of slaughter”,…

Gebze, Türkiye — Artificial intelligence and the use of frontier technologies are already transforming trade and boosting prosperity, particularly for developed and some developing countries. This ranges from the digital exchange of documents, the digitalisation of trade processes and leveraging online platforms to fast-track cross-border trade. The rapid adoption of new technologies will further consolidate the dominance of world trade by developed economies, which currently account for roughly 74 percent of global trade, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The world’s 44 Least Developed Countries (LDCs), with a population of an estimated 1.4 billion people,…

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The U.S. government plans to take a 10% stake in Intel, President Donald Trump told reporters Friday. Bloomberg was first to report the news, which pushed the semiconductor chip company’s stock up more than 7%. Trump said Intel has agreed to the proposal. Intel declined to comment. The news comes during a pivotal — and recently volatile — time for Intel. CEO Lip-Bu Tan is currently restructuring the chipmaker, shuttering certain divisions and laying off workers in a bid to focus on its core businesses and catch up to rivals like Nvidia. Earlier this month, Trump pushed Tan to resign…

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Hundreds of Italian and international filmmakers, artists and cultural figures have signed an open letter calling on the Venice Film Festival to take a “clear and unambiguous stand” against what they describe as genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The appeal, organized under the banner of Venice4Palestine (V4P), was sent on Friday to the Venice film festival umbrella organization the Biennale di Venezia, as well as the festival’s independent sections Venice Days and International Critics’ Week. In the letter, the group accuses the Israeli government and military of carrying out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing across Palestine, and urges…

The Ministry of Health and Child Care has agreed on new strategies with its partners to strengthen the procurement, storage and distribution of essential medicines in a bid to end chronic shortages at public hospitals. Speaking at a high-level meeting in Harare on Thursday, Health Ministry Permanent Secretary Dr. Aspect Maunganidze admitted that public health institutions had long struggled with erratic drug supplies, delayed deliveries and shrinking donor funding. “We have to agree that there have been challenges in terms of supply levels – from medicines, sundries to equipment. We want to face this head on by focusing on the…

Pakistan and Bangladesh are expected to sign several agreements, including on trade as the two nations move closer.Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has held talks with top Bangladeshi officials and politicians, including the foreign affairs adviser, Touhid Hossain, as the two South Asian nations aim to reset relations amid Dhaka’s fraying ties with India.Dar flew to Bangladesh on Saturday, the most senior Pakistani official to visit Dhaka since 2012, with Islamabad calling it “historic” and a “significant milestone in Pakistan-Bangladesh relations”.Relations between Dhaka and Islamabad have been easing since a mass uprising in Bangladesh ousted Sheikh Hasina as prime minister last…

Maputo — The Catholic Church has expressed its concern at the increase in cases of child kidnapping by Islamist terrorists in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. In a letter to the Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Foundation in Lisbon, cited by the independent newsheet “Carta de Moçambique’, father Kwiriwi Fonseca, from Pemba Diocese, says that “something urgent must be done to help these children. They must be found and returned to their parents, because they deserve to dream, they deserve a better future.’ Recently, Valige Tauabo, governor of Cabo Delgado, accused the terrorists of using children…