A man walked into a Viennese gallery one day in the summer of 2023 looking to sell a Gustav Klimt painting. The person who greeted him thought it was a joke, and gently sent him on his way.But when the owner of the W&K gallery was told what had happened, he ran down the street …
The release of novelist Boualem Sansal has de-escalated a crisis in relations between France and its former colony Algeria, but much work remains to be done to normalise ties deeply scarred by history.Algerian-born Sansal, who received French citizenship in 2024, was released on Wednesday after over a year in prison on charges of seeking to …
Google will pay more than $40 million to support South African news media, many of them floundering in a digital age, the country’s competition authority said Thursday.Tech giants, including TikTok, X and Facebook, have come under fire for anti-trust practices that the watchdog says hurt local media by limiting their ability to distribute and profit …
At about 10 o’clock every morning, women in hijabs and loose long dresses wade through Zanzibar’s turquoise shallow tides to tend their sponge farms — a new lifeline after climate change upended their former work.Rising ocean temperatures, overfishing and pollution have steadily degraded marine ecosystems around the island, undermining a key source of income for …
Zanzibar women turn to sponge farming as oceans heat upThu, 13 Nov 2025 10:40:10 GMT Read More »
Mobutu Sese Seko ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades as a dictator who plundered the country’s vast mineral wealth while propped up by the West.But 30 years after his fall, an exhibition at the National Museum in the capital Kinshasa — opened at his family’s initiative — hopes to tell …
At least $50 million for the freedom of an Emirati sheikh: that is the king’s ransom paid two weeks ago to jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda who are pushing to topple the Malian government and impose Islamic law.Alongside a crippling fuel blockade, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, known by its Arabic acronym …
A decade on from deadly attacks in Paris, the world’s two most notorious jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda have significantly evolved and their branches still pose a global security threat, especially from Africa, analysts say.With strong central leadership, the groups were once able to train and then send commandos into Europe to carry …
Ten years after Paris attacks, jihadist threat has evolvedThu, 13 Nov 2025 02:18:50 GMT Read More »
A US jury in the first civil trial over a fatal Boeing 737 MAX crash determined Wednesday that the aircraft manufacturing giant owes $28.45 million to the family of a newly-wed Indian victim.The case involves the survivors of Shikha Garg of New Delhi, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, one of two …
Jailed French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal arrived in Germany for medical treatment on Wednesday after Algiers agreed to a German request that he be pardoned.A spokeswoman for German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who on Monday had urged Algeria to free the 81-year-old given his “fragile health condition”, confirmed to AFP that Sansal had landed in Germany and …
Pardoned French-Algerian writer Sansal arrives in GermanyWed, 12 Nov 2025 20:44:41 GMT Read More »
Jailed French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was on his way to Germany for medical treatment on Wednesday after Algiers agreed to a German request that he be pardoned.German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who on Monday had urged Algeria to free the 81-year-old, confirmed he was en route and thanked Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune for the “humanitarian gesture”. Germany …
Jailed writer Sansal on way to Germany after Algeria pardonWed, 12 Nov 2025 18:07:09 GMT Read More »
