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International student travel: What to know heading into the year about immigration policy shifts
Northwestern’s Office of International Student and Scholar Services has issued multiple warnings in the past academic year about heightened visa screening, visa application disruptions and travel risks regarding both new and returning...
Owner: Northwestern University
The truth about the small-boats crisis
After the Calais Jungle burned, the only migrants that remained were the birds. The square mile, where thousands of questing men looked north, has been rewilded with marsh flowers and rugged grass. There are no more celebrity visits, no Banksy...
Owner: Michael "Mike" Danson
How retired UN boss Haile Menkerios lost Sh320 million to Ruto ally in shady deals
Indeterminate
The Standard
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A retired United Nations official has accused a close ally of President William Ruto’s of conning him out of Sh320 million in a bogus investment scheme allegedly involving Department of Defence (DoD) tenders. According to court documents, Haile...
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Ethiopia’s Purchase of Russian Su-35 Fighters Shifts the Power Balance in East Africa
Following the publication of leaked documents confirming that the Ethiopian Air Force will procure at least six Su-35 fighter aircraft from Russia, significant questions have been raised regarding the implications of the acquisitions for the...
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Politician Francis Mureithi and the Sh320 Million Scam: How He Duped a UN Diplomat
A retired United Nations diplomat, Haile Menkerios, has accused a key ally of President William Ruto of tricking him out of KSh 320 million through a fake investment scheme allegedly tied to Department of Defence contracts. According to court...
Owner: Non-transparent
KEMRI Announces Major Partnership With US Billionaire Bill Gates
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has announced a Ksh516 million flagship project that aims to elevate women's health research on the continent. In a statement on Saturday, September 11, the institute said that the three-year Gates...
Owner: Robert Ndungu
The Nobel Peace Prize winner the year you were born
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Business Insider
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2025-10-10T18:28:44Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app The Nobel Peace Prize has been recognizing global strides in...
Owner: Mathias Döpfner & Friede Springer
TikTok gives data to Indonesia officials
TikTok shared a trove of data about Indonesian users' online activity with the country's government over the weekend, handing over potentially sensitive information to avert a license suspension in its biggest Southeast Asian market. Government...
Owner: Eliza Hussman Jr. & David Stephens
Africa has ‘unlimited’ solar potential. Off-grid power could help light up the continent
Center-left
Yahoo News
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Globally, more than 660 million people still lack access to electricity — and 85% of them reside in sub-Saharan Africa. Washikala Malango was one of these people. Malango was born and raised in Baraka, a village on the shores of a vast lake in the...
Owner: Apollo Global Management
Libya’s east rebuilds while desert migrants risk death en route to Europe
Every week, illegal immigrants from Sudan, Eritrea, Chad, and Niger pour across the border into Libya, which they hope will live up to its name as the “Gateway to Europe”. The Libyan authorities have a choice. Do they do what the French are...
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'Breath-taking' Lake District town ranked the most romantic to visit in the UK
Known for being the 'home' to the famous poets of the romantic era, it's not hard to see why. William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey and John Ruskin were hugely affected by their surroundings. But one place may have been the...
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Powerful photographs and untold stories at the World Press Photo Expo
The main floor of the market consists of overpriced souvenir shops and a few artisanal stores, visited mostly by tourists. It feels disconnected, fake. However, on the ground floor, facing de la Commune street, you will likely experience something...
Owner: McGill University
Mega-dinghy migrant boats carrying record numbers across English Channel
Pro-Government
The National News
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The number of migrants crammed on to boats making the dangerous English Channel crossing has risen to record levels, with an average of 80 per vessel on some days, analysis by The National can reveal. The highest number to cross in a single boat...
Owner: United Arab Emirates Government
Somaliland Recognition Won’t Cause Al-Shabaab Backlash
For more than three decades, Somaliland has governed itself as an independent country. Its democracy features real elections leading to peaceful transfers of power. It has its own currency, its own passports, and its own foreign policy. Unlike...
Owner: Middle East Forum (Non-profit)
Libyan National Army offers to help UK with migrant crisis
Center-left
Yahoo News - United Kingdom
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The Libyan National Army has offered to work with the UK to detain and deport illegal immigrants before they reach the Channel. Military chiefs in Benghazi have told The Telegraph they are keen to do more to stop their country being used as a key...
Owner: Apollo Global Management
Who are the five Nobel Peace Prize judges deciding whether Trump gets it?
Five members of Norway’s Nobel Committee could hold the key to United States President Donald Trump’s much-desired moment of glory – being named this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Each year, the Nobel Committee, whose members are elected...
Owner: Qatari Government
Officials Call for respect of Laws in South Sudan
By Lodu William Odiya The Director General for Nationality, Passport, and Migration, Maj. Gen. Elia Kosta Faustino, has urged migrants residing in South Sudan to respect the country’s laws and regulations. Speaking during the opening of a one-day...
Owner: Stella Kiden Mandela
Dr. Pablo Bose and Dr. Thomas Huddleston: Vermont’s unique rural welcome of refugees
Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a...
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Nigerian passport and monetization of citizenship
By Agbeze Kalu Onuma I have always believed that a passport is more than a booklet of paper; it is a key, a symbol, a bridge between where we are and where we dream to be. It is a tangible manifestation of the social contract between the...
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What to know about the Nobel Peace Prize
Anticipation is growing and bookies around the world are taking bets on who'll be awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, with President Trump among the most high-profile — and controversial — contenders. On Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee...
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