Super bowl halftime show: What to expect from Kendrick Lamar’s performance Lamar is the first solo rapper to headline the Super Bowl halftime show. Kendrick Lamar during a press conference for the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show [Bill Streicher/Reuters] Published On 8 Feb 20258 Feb 2025 The Super Bowl halftime show has always been a…
It’s an alarming moment in US politics. Developments have been fast and furious, with Donald Trump flooding the news space at a rate journalists find hard to handle. His plan for an American takeover of the Gaza Strip, the reshaping of federal agencies and the unchecked power handed to Musk all beg a question: Who…
China hunts for survivors following landslide in Sichuan province Beijing’s emergency ministry reports two people have been rescued and 200 relocated. A drone view shows the site of an August 2024 flash flood and landslide in the Sichuan province, China [File: cnsphoto via Reuters] Published On 8 Feb 20258 Feb 2025 China has launched a…
US courts halt DOGE access to Treasury records, USAID furlough The judgements are the latest in the growing series blocking Trump and Musk’s disruption of the government. The US flag flies alone beside an empty flagpole that previously had the flag of USAID, outside the agency’s headquarters in Washington [File: Jose Luis Magana/AP] Published On…
EXPLAINER Do Elon Musk and DOGE have power to close US government agencies? Legal experts doubt that DOGE has power to cut spending already approved by Congress. Elon Musk at Capitol Hill on the day of a meeting with Senate Republican Leader-elect John Thune, in Washington, US, December 5, 2024 [File: Benoit Tessier/Reuters] By Louis Jacobson…
‘BJP has system sewn up’: Kejriwal’s AAP loses Delhi in assembly elections Narendra Modi’s BJP finally takes Delhi, India’s political heart, which until now has remained out of its reach. Photographs of party leader Arvind Kejriwal are seen on s wall as a worker removes chairs from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) office as the…
Baltic states cut last Russian energy link Ex-Soviet nations warn of sabotage and cyberattack threat as they cut power links with Moscow to hook up to EU network. An announcement near the Energy Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania, indicating that the Baltic States will disconnect from the Russian electricity grid to synchronise with Continental Europe [Mindaugas…
Hamas and Israel set for fifth prisoner swap under Gaza ceasefire deal Exchange of three Israelis and 183 Palestinians comes as Trump casts uncertainty over second ceasefire phase. Members of Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades gather in the square to release Israeli hostages as part of a hostage swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Deir al…
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,080 Here are the key developments on the 1,080th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian police officers try to persuade residents to evacuate from the front-line town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, Ukraine [File: Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters] Published On 8 Feb 20258 Feb 2025 Here is…
A ‘disaster’ in Lebanon In Nicosia, The Maronite Archeparchy of Cyprus, Selif Jean Sfeir, is seated in an armchair in the Archbishopric. He is recounting the history of the Cypriot Maronite community which arrived on the island 1,200 years ago from Lebanon and Syria. “There were tens of thousands living in 83 villages. But now…