By Business Daily Africa Kenya Airways dropped three places in the latest global ranking of airlines, trailing its regional rival Ethiopian Airlines, which recorded a significant jump to fly within the top 30 carriers in the world. Skytrax World Airline Awards—which rates the world’s best carriers— placed KQ in position 81 in this year’s ranking,

By Anadolu Agency The US national debt exceeded $31 trillion for the first time amid rising interest rates to tame the record-high inflation, and growing economic uncertainty, according to Treasury Department data. The total public debt outstanding amounted to just over $31.1 trillion, the data showed on Tuesday. In July, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

British Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks at Britain’s Conservative Party’s annual conference in Birmingham, Britain, October 5, 2022. Photograph Hannah McKay/Reuters The Independent By Jon Stone Over the summer the Conservatives ejected Boris Johnson from power amid concerns that their party was falling behind in the polls. As the nights draw in for October, the

Credit: Reuters By Daily Nation It is all fun and games, they say, until someone loses an eye, and so what started off as playful social media posts by Ugandan military boss Muhoozi Kainerugaba have now forced Uganda and Kenya to confront an awkward diplomatic row and reopened old scars that the two nations have

File Photo – US aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan By Anadolu Agency The US will redeploy its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the South Korean waters after North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile, local media reported on Wednesday. The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, which left the peninsula after a joint naval drill by the US,

By Business Daily Africa The World Bank has downgraded Kenya’s 2023 growth outlook to 5 percent amid concerns over increased commodity prices including fuel and the effects of an ongoing drought. The Bank had earlier projected the country’s growth at 5.5 percent but the prospects have been dampened by high inflation rates and food insecurity

By The Associated Press Elon Musk is abandoning his legal battle to back out of buying Twitter by offering to go through with his original $44 billion bid for the social media platform. The mercurial Tesla CEO made the offer in a letter to Twitter, which the company disclosed in a filing Tuesday with the

By Anadolu Agency The number of European countries suffering from the gas supply cut from Russia’s state-owned Gazprom is growing every day at a time when winter is fast approaching. While Europe is putting Russia in an economically difficult situation with a wide range of sanctions due to the war, Kremlin’s counterattacks are deepening the

By Reuters Lawyers for Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, facing a U.S. lawsuit over the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, told a court on Monday the crown prince’s appointment as prime minister last week ensured him immunity from prosecution. Khashoggi was killed and dismembered by Saudi agents in the Saudi consulate

By Anadolu Agency British Prime Minister Liz Truss said she is a “huge Zionist” and a “huge supporter of Israel,” a video shared online showed. The video, which was shared many times on social media platforms, shows Truss speaking at a Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) event during her party’s fall conference being held in