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US President Donald Trump said that an Israeli reoccupation of Gaza would be ‘up to Israel’.

Former employees of Choose Kigali are scheduled to meet with Moise Nkundabarashi, the President of Rwanda Bar Association on Thursday, August 7, to explore possible legal action over unpaid wages. As of now, no formal legal proceedings have been initiated, despite the restaurant’s failure to comply with a signed agreement made between the company and the affected employees. Aline Umutesi worked at Choose Kigali, a high-end restaurant and art space in Kigali-Kiyovu, for 10 months. She describes her time there as “dedicated but painful,” saying she was paid for only five of those months. She publicly accused the restaurant of…

Nigeria has recorded 11 new confirmed cases of Lassa fever, bringing the total number of infections to 822 and the death toll to 155, between January 1 and July 20, 2025. The latest data, released yesterday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), covers epidemiological Week 29 (14th-20th July, 2025). It shows a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 18.9 per cent–an increase from the 17.1 per cent recorded during the same period in 2024. By epidemiological Week 29, Nigeria had recorded a total of 6,640 suspected cases, with confirmed infections reported across 21 states and 105 local…

The report says that data from acoustic sensors and strain gauges on board indicated that the hull had suffered a delamination after a dive to the Titanic in 2022, causing a loud bang. Rush was said to have dismissed that noise, and the report found that there was no one left at the company in 2023 who was able to adequately interpret the sensor data. The company’s director of engineering quit two months before the implosion.“The power was consolidated in Mr. Rush,” says Neubauer. “There was no set standard for how loud a noise or how many noises would make…

Russian Pacific Fleet says joint patrol with China in the Asia Pacific will follow naval drill in the Sea of Japan.Russian and Chinese naval vessels plan to conduct a joint patrol in the Asia Pacific region, following recent exercises in the Sea of Japan, Russia’s official Interfax has reported.Citing a statement on Wednesday from the Russian Pacific Fleet’s press service, Interfax said that ships from the Russian Navy and China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy “will form a new task group to carry out joint patrol missions in the Asia-Pacific region”.“After replenishing supplies from logistics vessels, the crews of the…

Queer romance “Kachifo, Till The Morning Comes,” Johannesburg-set funeral farce “Death & Its Friends” and feel-good heist movie “The Color Yellow” (“Manjano”) look like potential standouts at Locarno’s 2025 Africa-focused Open Doors, unspooling on-site at Locarno Over Aug. 7-12. Directed by Dika Ofoma, “Kachifo” marks the latest from Nigeria’s Blu House Studios, led by Blessing Uzzi, who wrote and produced “Freedom Way,” a hit at 2024’s Toronto Festival. At Locarno with “Death & Its Friends” and behind Netflix series“Baddies Joburg,” which she created, producer Kudi Maradzika, calls the film “‘Parasite’ meets ‘Triangle of Sadness,’” “a darkly comic family drama about…

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsDian Fossey Gorilla FundFemale gorillas appear to maintain their social relationships for many years The relationships built up between female mountain gorillas are more important than previously understood, new research from Rwanda suggests.It shows that when one of these social great apes moves into a new group, she will seek out and join another female she already knows.Scientists based the research on 20 years of data covering multiple groups of gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, in Rwanda.The scientists found that even when two females had been apart for many years, a newly arrived gorilla would still…

New Delhi, India — When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, many Indian analysts celebrated, arguing that his bonhomie with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would shield the country from the chaos that the United States president could unleash.The two leaders had effectively campaigned for each other previously, attending joint rallies. They have repeatedly described each other as friends, and in February, Modi became among the first world leaders to visit Trump in the White House.But six months later, a sobering reality has hit New Delhi, with Trump punishing it with a 25 percent tariff on imports…

Nick WagonerAug 5, 2025, 06:08 PM ETCloseNick Wagoner is an NFL reporter at ESPN. Nick has covered the San Francisco 49ers since 2016, having previously covered the St. Louis Rams for 12 years, including three years (2013 to 2015) at ESPN. In over a decade with the company, Nick has led ESPN’s coverage of the Niners’ 2019 and 2023 Super Bowl run, Colin Kaepernick’s protest, the Rams making Michael Sam the first openly gay player drafted to the NFL, Sam’s subsequent pursuit of a roster spot and the team’s relocation and stadium saga.SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers tight…

Linda Yaccarino’s next role after departing X as CEO will be another chief executive role at eMed Population Health, an AI startup building a tech platform for patients using GLP-1s. Yaccarino was a longtime advertising executive at NBCUniversal but left to join X as CEO for two years, where she managed to have a positive impact on the social network’s troubled ad revenue model, despite her and Elon Musk’s shared approach to minimizing content moderation. Though Yaccarino does not have experience in health tech, eMed said in a press release that they sought her out for her “undeniable ability to…