GUANGZHOU | Xinhua | For Austrian resident Denis Yurchak, the search for an air conditioner to survive this year’s scorching summer felt like embarking on an adventure. Since late June, a relentless heatwave has grilled Europe, shattering numerous temperature records. After spending two days looking for a portable air conditioner …

    LONDON | Xinhua |  Britain is preparing for its seventh prime minister in a decade following Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s resignation amid mounting political pressure and declining parliamentary support. Andy Burnham, former mayor of Greater Manchester, is currently the only declared candidate for the Labour leadership and is …

  How ordinary Ugandans in security forces and the judiciary are the quiet levers of the Machinery of Injustice   COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI |  Anybody of a clear conscience must have felt a sense of personal torture the night we saw images of Eddy Mutwe (Edward Ssebuufu), the former …

    Nairobi, Kenya | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Pan-African institution AGRA has been awarded the Norman E. Borlaug Medallion by the World Food Prize Foundation, in recognition of the institution’s two decades of contribution to advancing food systems transformation across the continent. Since 2006, AGRA has worked with its partners, …

  BEIJING, | Xinhua |  Since its founding 105 years ago, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has kept standing at the forefront of China’s transformation, leading the country through construction to become one of the world’s foremost economic powers. Now with more than 101 million members, the CPC is …

  COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | South Africa is in the news, unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons. Imagine Black Africans chasing and lynching fellow Africans, who are seeking economic fortunes, out of their country. For some time, South Africa has been the number one economy in Africa because of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Technology services provider, Dimension Data Uganda has rebranded to NTT DATA, aligning its local operations with the global technology group as demand rises for artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cybersecurity services in Uganda’s expanding digital economy. The change, announced June 25, brings the Ugandan …

BEIJING | Xinhua |  Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday hailed the 105-year history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) as the “most magnificent epic” of the Chinese nation and urged the Party to press ahead to build China into a modern socialist country on schedule. Addressing a gathering marking …

  Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Rotary Uganda has recognised dfcu Bank as a key corporate partner in advancing community development, in acknowledgement of the Bank’s growing role in delivering structured, impact-led programmes across the country. The recognition was announced during a Rotary Uganda-hosted appreciation breakfast in Kampala, which brought together …

  To stop this race from morphing into a future catastrophe, there is urgent need to strengthen how space is governed   COMMENT | CASSANDRA STEER |  Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen had an emotional message before he and three colleagues set off for the Moon earlier this year on the Artemis …