(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Turkey’s annual inflation rose again in February, reaching 67.1 per cent despite a string of interest rate hikes, official data showed on Monday. The Turkish central bank held its key interest rate at 45 per cent last month, pausing after eight straight increases aimed at taming consumer prices that had remained stable […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prince Harry lost a court challenge against the UK government on Wednesday over a decision to change the level of his personal security when he visits the country. Harry launched legal action against the government after being told in February 2020 that he would no longer be given the “same degree” of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said he would not rule out the deployment of French ground troops in Ukraine. Macron said nothing was off the table to ensure that Russia does not win its war against Ukraine, after the conclusion of a Ukraine aid conference in Paris on Monday. The meeting, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A man set himself on fire outside Israel’s embassy in Washington, DC, on Sunday afternoon in an apparent act of protest. The person was hospitalised with life-threatening injuries. No one else was harmed in the incident, Israel’s foreign ministry told The Times of Israel. The demonstrator was not immediately identified. First responders […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Donald Trump on Monday ended his lengthy silence on the death of Alexei Navalny, in a statement that avoided criticism of the Kremlin and instead portrayed the Russian opposition leader’s sudden passing as a sign of a collapsing United States. Navalny died in unexplained circumstances at age 47 in an Arctic prison […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN’s top court Friday rejected South Africa’s request to put more legal pressure on Israel to halt a threatened offensive against the Gaza city of Rafah, saying it was “bound to comply with existing measures.” Pretoria has already filed a complaint against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A New York judge ordered Donald Trump to pay $355 million over fraud allegations and banned him from running companies in the state for three years Friday in a major blow to his business empire and financial standing. Trump — almost certain to be the Republican presidential nominee this November — was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Paris appeals court on Wednesday confirmed a conviction for former president Nicolas Sarkozy over illegal campaign financing but lightened his original one-year prison sentence. The appeals court said he should serve six months, with another six months suspended. The ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain’s unemployment rate dipped in the final quarter of last year but wage growth eased as the country’s inflation stayed elevated, official data showed Tuesday. The unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent from 3.9 percent in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics said in a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US President Joe Biden belatedly joined TikTok on Sunday, marking his debut on the social media platform with a 26-second video. The move comes after fierce US government criticism of the video-sharing platform in recent years, most notably from Republicans but also from the Biden administration. TikTok is owned by Chinese firm […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a former banker, paid more than 500,000 pounds ($630,000) in taxes in 2023, his office revealed on Friday. The 43-year-old, who has been prime minister since October 2022, had revenues of 2.2 million pounds in the 2022-23 tax year, a 13-percent increase on the previous year, according […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun treatment, Buckingham Palace said on Monday, just a week after he was discharged from hospital for prostate surgery. Following the announcement, the 75-year-old Charles’s estranged son Prince Harry made it known that he had spoken with the king […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) –The IMF sees a greater risk to the global economy if central banks start cutting interest rates too soon than if they move “slightly” too late, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Thursday. The US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank (ECB) and others have held interest rates elevated in recent months in an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Tunisia inked an agreement to improve social protection for Tunisia’s agricultural workers, the Tunisian Ministry of Social Affairs said. The agreement was signed in Tunis by Tunisia’s Social Affairs Minister Malek Ezzahi and Mohamed Amrani, acting representative for FAO’s subregional office for North Africa. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has assured Nigerians of his country’s willingness to promote economic ties in his official visit to President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The African Examiner writes that Secretary Blinken , who is presently on an African tour, arrived at the Presidential Villa […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday meets the presidents of Nigeria and Ivory Coast in a bid to forge a united front with key African democracies as crises engulf the world. In Abidjan, Blinken will meet Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, a veteran leader who has won US praise for consolidating […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Donald Trump’s sexual assault defamation trial was delayed after a juror reported COVID symptoms Monday, the eve of the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary vote. The juror in the civil case, at which Trump says he will testify, reported symptoms of fever, as did one of Trump’s lawyers who had a separate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israel launched pre-dawn air strikes near the Syrian capital on Tuesday, state media said citing a military source, at a time of heightened regional tensions over the Gaza war. Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israel had targeted a military position that also housed members of Lebanon’s Iran-backed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – British inflation unexpectedly rose in December, data showed Wednesday, dashing expectations of a slowdown, dimming hopes of an early interest rate cut and prolonging a cost-of-living squeeze before an election. The Consumer Prices Index accelerated slightly to four percent last month, as rising alcohol and tobacco prices sparked the first increase since […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Donald Trump is expected to be back in court Tuesday in New York for a civil case in which he has already been found liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll. A jury in May of last year concluded that Trump sexually assaulted her in the dressing room […]
