Thousands of young African men have signed up to fight in Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Some have posted cheerful videos with Russian soldiers. But many others say they were deceptively lured to Russia and then coerced into signing military contracts. Many have been killed on the battlefield. Though Africa is thousands of miles from the…
Amjad Masad has been building Replit for a decade, but the last 18 months have been something else entirely. The AI coding assistant company went from $2.8 million in revenue in all of 2024 to tracking toward what Masad describes as a billion-dollar annual run rate. At TechCrunch’s sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on…
We meet Kneecap backstage at Kingston’s Circuit ahead of an intimate album launch show on St George’s Day (no reader, they do not celebrate). It’s been about a year and half since we last spoke. “A pretty uneventful few months I must say,” jokes Mo Chara, given the lifetime of headlines and controversy the Belfast rap…
Israel and Hezbollah are still fighting in Lebanon despite a US-brokered ceasefire deal that took effect on 17 April, pausing six weeks of full-scale war. The agreement allows Israel to “take all necessary measures in self-defence, at any time, against planned, imminent, or ongoing attacks”. It was not Hezbollah which signed the ceasefire deal with…
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Google filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by anti-corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associated him with sexual assault allegations and a white nationalist. Starbuck is seeking $15 million in damages from Google. But the company says in its filing that his claims simply represent his “misuse of…
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Shorouk Express Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email Some 25,000 climate have descended on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the second African Climate Summit (ACS2) – in the face of Donald Trump’s hostile stance towards both climate…
Shorouk Express The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US When her husband died after a grueling U.S. Border Patrol training program for new agents, Lisa Afolayan…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email An ex-Tory MP who joined the Ukrainian Army has vowed the country won’t bow to Donald Trump’s demands, warning that the army will continue…
