By Business Daily Africa Kenya Airways is fighting to save a Sh310 million deposit it made with US plane maker Boeing Corporation for aircraft purchases after the expiry of the preservation period rendered the deposit non-refundable. The airline disclosed in its annual report for the year ending December 2022 that it risks losing the millions

By Anadolu Agency China on Wednesday asked the US to provide “an explanation” to the international community over the documents leaked from Pentagon. “Leaked Pentagon documents suggest the US is not only deeply involved in the Ukraine crisis but also has been long eavesdropping on allies,” Wang Wenbin, the spokesperson of China’s Foreign Ministry, told

The leaves of a growing cannabis or hemp plant stand in a box at the Cannabis Museum in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. The German government on Wednesday presented scaled-back plans to liberalize the country’s rules on cannabis, which would decriminalize possessing and growing limited amounts of the substance and allow its sale for

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a fighter takes off during the combat readiness patrol and military exercises around the Taiwan Island carried out by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from Nanjing in eastern China on April 8, 2023. Recent Chinese air and sea drills simulating an

French President Emmanuel Macron poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping after meeting the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, April 6, 2023. Reuters/Ng Han Guan By Reuters Comments by French President Emmanuel Macron on Taiwan are puzzling, a senior Taiwanese politician said, wondering whether France’s founding

The economic forecast is better – but still the worst in the G7 (PA) The Independent By Alastair Jamieson and Jon Stone Britain is on course for the worst economic performance of the G7, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted as it warned of more turmoil in a “fragile” global financial system. UK output is

Photo/Somali Times Somalia shady President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud met with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday at the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu to discuss genocide northern Somalia committed by warlord Muse Bihi Abdi. Read: UN Human Rights Committee has called for an investigation into the killings in Las Anod Read: Why is Somalia an

Members of nationalist group ‘Dissident Republicans’ throw petrol bombs at a police car as nationalists hold an anti-agreement rally on the 25th anniversary of the peace deal, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, April 10, 2023. Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne By Reuters A number of masked people attacked a police vehicle with petrol bombs and other objects at a

Copper mining in Kolwezi, eastern DR Congo. Photo/AFP By The East African The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has embarked on a definitive review of mining contracts awarded to a Chinese firm it co-owns with Beijing, but whose work and profits have formed continual concerns raised by the government on fairness. Officials, in trying to

By Anadolu Agency China on Monday said its latest military drills encircling Taiwan are a “stern warning to Taiwan secessionist forces and their collusion with external forces.” Wang Wenbin, the spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, said the “Joint Sword” three-day drills held by People’s Liberation Army (PLA) since Saturday, “encircling Taiwan island are a stern