Politics

Jared Isaacman’s support for Musk’s space data centers did not occur in a vacuum

Jared Isaacman’s support for Musk’s space data centers did not occur in a vacuum

It meshes with his vision of a NASA-led expansion of human civilization beyond Earth.

2027: Datti Rejects Obi, Atiku as Alternatives to Tinubu

Daily Trust

2027: Datti Rejects Obi, Atiku as Alternatives to Tinubu

Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, running mate to Peter Obi in the 2023 presidential election, has dismissed all the major politicians challenging President Bola Tinubu in 2027 as incapable of improving Nigeria. He included his former political…

Daily Trust

Man arrested for harassing a woman in Thamel

OnlineKhabar

Man arrested for harassing a woman in Thamel

Kathmandu, September 6 Police have arrested a man accused of inappropriately touching a woman while she was walking along a footpath in Thamel, Kathmandu. The arrested man has been identified as 30-year-old Salim Sah of Kabilasi…

OnlineKhabar

Trump envoys set for Zelensky meeting after Russia-Ukraine peace talks with Putin

Trump envoys set for Zelensky meeting after Russia-Ukraine peace talks with Putin

President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff on Sunday made their way to Kyiv to discuss the Ukraine war with the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. The New York Times reported that Witkoff and Kushner…

How significant are the Yemeni government’s military gains against Houthis?

Al Jazeera

How significant are the Yemeni government’s military gains against Houthis?

Government forces make gains as fighting escalates, raising fears of a return to full-scale war.

Al Jazeera

US envoys Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kyiv after talks with Putin in Russia

RFI

US envoys Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kyiv after talks with Putin in Russia

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for talks with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky a day after meeting the Russian president Vladimir Putin to discuss proposals over how to end the four-year war…

RFI

Iran war likely to drag on for another six months, ex-US defense secretary warns

The Guardian

Iran war likely to drag on for another six months, ex-US defense secretary warns

Leon Panetta tells Guardian US is risking ‘forever war’ and says Pentagon ‘turmoil’ sending message of weakness Donald Trump’s war with Iran is likely to drag on for another six months, Leon Panetta, the former US defense secretary, has…

The Guardian

Russia calls Leipzig drone attack accusations 'start of real war'

ABC News

Russia calls Leipzig drone attack accusations 'start of real war'

The German government concluded last week that Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig Airport last month.

ABC News

US envoys Witkoff, Kushner arrive in Kiyv after Putin talks

Deutsche Welle

US envoys Witkoff, Kushner arrive in Kiyv after Putin talks

The two US offcials are meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, with national security advisors the UK, France, and Germany reportedly also in Ukraine for talks.

Deutsche Welle

Iran's Hormuz leverage wanes as US economic squeeze bites

Straits Times

Iran's Hormuz leverage wanes as US economic squeeze bites

ISTANBUL, Sept 6 - Six months after a conflict that rattled markets and pushed the Gulf to the brink of a wider war, the tide may be turning against Iran as Washington unleashes an unprecedented economic offensive to achieve what military…

Straits Times

U.S. envoys Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kyiv after talks with Putin in Moscow

CBC

U.S. envoys Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kyiv after talks with Putin in Moscow

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kyiv on Sunday in their first official visit to Ukraine as part of a renewed push for peace more than four and a half years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

CBC

Rhode Island capital becomes largest US city to vote on anti-Israel divestment

Times of Israel