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Nigeria’s customs agency says it has seized over 1,600 birds bound for Kuwait, in what it described as the country’s “largest” wildlife-trafficking bust. Ring-necked parrots and green- and yellow-fronted canaries were intercepted at Lagos International Airport, by Nigeria’s Customs Service (NCS) on 31 July, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday. It is the “largest” seizure by number, NCS spokesperson Abdullahi Maiwada told the BBC, in a country where wildlife trafficking is frequent.Nigeria’s porous borders, widespread corruption and weak enforcement have made it a key transit hub for ivory, pangolin scales and other wildlife products.The NCS said it was…

106 Cameroon’s domestic public debt has now reached CFA3,814.4 billion, excluding arrears and floating debt, according to a new report released by the Autonomous Sinking Fund (CAA). This figure, which equals about 11.6% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), highlights the increasing reliance of the Cameroonian government on domestic borrowing to manage state finances in 2025. The debt figure does not include arrears, which are invoices left unpaid for more than three months, nor floating debt, which refers to short-term unsettled obligations. According to the CAA’s analysis, over 55% of this domestic debt is made up of public securities—mostly…

Administration says Russia expressed ‘desire to meet with President Trump’ and that the US wants war in Ukraine to end.The White House has said that United States President Donald Trump is “open” to the idea of a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.In remarks on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Russian officials had expressed interest in meeting with Trump. Leavitt did not say when or where such a meeting could take place, but AP quoted an anonymous White House official saying the meeting could happen within a week.“The Russians expressed their…

Shohei Ohtani’s epic list of career accolades continues to grow.During the bottom of the third inning in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Wednesday matchup against the St. Louis Cardinals, Ohtani, 31, took the plate with 999 career hits under his belt.With the count being 1-1, Ohtani timed Cardinals pitcher Kyle Leahy’s 92 miles-per-hour sinker before winding his bat up to launch the ball 440 feet to center field into the stands to help gain Los Angeles’ first lead of the game, 2-1.Shohei Ohtani goes yard for career hit No. 1,000! pic.twitter.com/c6I2pGSuip— MLB (@MLB) August 6, 2025 It wasn’t just any homer…

WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts linked to scammers targeting people around the world in the first half of this year, its parent company Meta says.Many were tied to scam centres run by organised criminals in South East Asia, who often used forced labour in their operations, according to the social media giant.Meta made the announcement as WhatsApp rolled out new anti-scam measures to alert users to potential fraudulent activity, such as a user being added to a group chat by someone not in their contacts list.The crackdown targets an increasingly common tactic in which criminals hijack WhatsApp accounts…

Just over 20 years ago, Steven Spielberg released War of the Worlds, a remake of the HG Wells classic updated for then modern day, capturing an era of post-9/11 anxiety filtered through the prism of late-90s disaster movies. That movie’s reputation has only grown over the years – it’s basically the thinking and anxious person’s Independence Day – but the Wells text has been revisited repeatedly since its publication at the tail end of the 19th century. 2025 seems as good a time as any for another update. And if ever any viewers yearned to see a new War of…

At least 76 people were killed and dozens are missing after a boat carrying mostly Ethiopian migrants sank off Yemen, in the latest tragedy on the perilous sea route, officials told AFP Monday. Yemeni security officials said 76 bodies had been recovered and 32 people rescued from the shipwreck in the Gulf of Aden. The UN migration agency said 157 people were on board. Sunday’s incident was “one of the deadliest” migrant shipwrecks off Yemen this year, Abdusattor Esoev, the International Organisation for Migration’s chief of mission for Yemen, told journalists. The ship was headed to Abyan governorate in southern…

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“Still haven’t seen the Rolling Stones,” says Venus Williams, smiling, as she reminisced about her unforgettable professional tennis debut at the age of 14 in Oakland, California, an occasion that justified years of hype surrounding her stratospheric potential. Her first ever professional tennis match took place next door to a Rolling Stones concert. Now, 31 years later, at 45 years old, Williams is still here.Three weeks after returning to professional tennis for the first time in 16 months with a straight sets singles victory over the then world No 35 Peyton Stearns at the Citi Open in Washington, which marked…

One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief’s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company’s cloud.Meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella’s support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.Armed with Azure’s near-limitless storage capacity, Unit 8200 began building a powerful new mass surveillance tool: a sweeping and intrusive system that collects…