New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern By Reuters New Zealand will not actively take any measures to become a republic in the short-term after the death of Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, though she expects the Pacific nation will eventually become one. “I’ve never sensed the urgency. There’s so many challenges we face.

By Reuters Some Turkish banks are curtailing corporate lending after the government’s latest raft of regulations raised their costs and forced many to cut their balance sheet risks, five banking and private sector sources told Reuters. The new rules, part of President Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox management of the economy, have especially depressed longer-term lending. The

By Anadolu Agency After winning the second four-year term, the opposition-backed governor of Japan’s southern Okinawa province on Monday reiterated his demand that the relocation of a US military base should be halted. However, the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has insisted the US base within Okinawa will “only” be relocated from the Futenma

By Reuters China’s waiver of 23 interest-free loans to African countries last month amounted to only 1.1% or less of Chinese lending to the continent, a study showed on Monday. China’s foreign ministry said in August it had cancelled 23 loans to 17 African countries that matured in 2021, but did not give further details.

Carlos Alcaraz celebrates with the trophy after winning the U.S. Open Reuters/Shannon Stapleton By The Associated Press Walking out for his first Grand Slam final at age 19, Carlos Alcaraz bumped fists with fans leaning over a railing along the path leading to the Arthur Ashe Stadium court. Moments later, after the coin toss, Alcaraz

By Anadolu Agency Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s center-left coalition government looks likely to be voted out of office as all signs are pointing to a new right-wing government being formed after Sunday’s general election. Parliamentary votes in over 6,100 districts have now been counted, which corresponds to 93% of the vote. The right-wing bloc

By Reuters Britain dismissed as untrue on Sunday Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assertion that only a fraction of grain exported from Ukraine under an international deal was going to poor countries. Putin said on Wednesday, without citing a source, that only two of 87 ships, carrying 60,000 tonnes of products, had gone to poor countries.

South Africa 1874 One Pond depicting Thomas François Burgers, 4th State President of the Republic of South Africa. Image via Wikimedia Commons By Face2Face Africa The Aksumite of Northern Ethiopian are the early tribes of Africa to introduce coins in the 2nd to the 9th century as a means of trading. These coins were made

File Photo/Somali Times The previous governments in Somalia and the large number of foreign forces in the country have been planning for a long time to free Al-Shabab from the country, but they have failed, because Al-Shabab still controls many parts of the country. It now appears that the new government led by corrupt president

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant By Anadolu Agency Ukraine on Sunday said operations at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant have been completely halted. The last of the Zaporizhzhia plant’s six reactors was disconnected from the power grid early at 3.41 a.m. (0041GMT), according to a statement by Energoatom, Ukraine’s atomic power operator. “Preparations are underway for