Beyond the Headlines
Indian industrialist Gautam Adani briefly became the world’s second- on the Forbes real-time billionaire tracker on Friday, weeks after becoming the first Asian to break into the top three. The self-made billionaire’s net worth surged $4 billion overnight to $154 billion, according to Forbes, ranking him ahead of LVMH’s Bernard Arnault and Amazon’s Jeff […]
Fuel prices in Kenya have soared to a record high after the new government removed the country’s petrol subsidy. On Wednesday, the price of petrol increased by 20.18 shillings to 179 KES (about $1.49) per litre while diesel and kerosene prices jumped by 20 and 25 shillings, respectively, according to Kenya’s Energy and Petroleum […]
The airport in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage in northern France is to be renamed after the late British Queen Elizabeth II, who died Sept. 8. It is not yet decided when exactly it will be renamed. Le Touquet-Paris-Plage is a popular holiday desination for British tourists. The coastal commune considers its airport the `most British of […]
Swedish Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson has formally submitted her resignation letter following a narrow loss to right-wing parties in recent elections, although the final tally was yet to be announced. Now it was up to the Riksdag and the Speaker of Parliament Andreas Norlén to oversee the process of Sweden forming a new government, […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Beijing was willing to work with Moscow as a “great power” during his first trip overseas since the early days of the pandemic. “China is willing to make efforts with Russia to assume the role of great powers, and play a […]
Thousands queued overnight into Thursday to pay their last solemn respects to Queen Elizabeth II, with some choking back tears after seeing her coffin lying in state in London. Britain’s longest-serving monarch, who died a week ago aged 96 after 70 years on the throne, is at rest in the capital’s Westminster Hall ahead […]
Kenya’s President William Ruto has deleted a tweet revoking the country’s recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as an independent state. Earlier on Wednesday, Ruto announced the development on Twitter after receiving a congratulatory message from Mohammed VI, King of Morocco. The announcement also came after Brahim Ghali, the president of Sahrawi […]
King Charles III leads a procession of the coffin of his mother Queen Elizabeth II through London on Wednesday before hundreds of thousands of people pay their final respects. Six days after her death in Scotland, Queen Elizabeth’s body will be borne on a horse-drawn gun carriage from her Buckingham Palace home to Westminster […]
Britons have a reputation for patiently waiting in line but the queue for Queen Elizabeth II’s lying in state is likely to be unprecedented even by their standards. A huge queue is expected to stretch through the night as people pay their respects to the queen in parliament’s Westminster Hall in London this week, […]
Prince Andrew will not wear a military uniform, unlike other senior British royals, at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, underlining his continuing estrangement from the family. Andrew was stripped of his “His Royal Highness” and honorary military titles at the start of the year amid ongoing fallout from a sex assault scandal. The 62-year-old re-appeared […]
