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Africa: Parallex Bank Backs Future Africa Leaders Awards

[This Day] Parallex Bank Plc has reaffirmed its commitment to nurturing African youth talent as it sponsored the 2025 edition of the Future Africa Leaders Awards (FALA), held recently. Organised by the Future Africa Leaders Foundation, the annual awards recognise young Africans

What Margaret Atwood Would Like You to Know

“Success is never so interesting as struggle,” Willa Cather wrote. “Not even to the successful.” Would Margaret Atwood agree? She once told The New Yorker she had no plans to write a memoir, since “the parts of writers’ lives that are interesting are usually the part before

Trump's bet on Syria's new leader faces pivotal point

President Trump’s bet on Syria’s new leader is facing a pivotal moment, as Kurdish forces are under attack from President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s forces in the northeast and facing growing pressure to fold into the central government. Al-Sharaa’s government and the Kurdish-led

The Key to Minneapolis’s Successful ICE Resistance

Don’t let the made-for-Fox News spectacle of the Minnesota Occupation distract you. The most important lesson the rest of us can learn from that state’s wide and deeply spread resistance is that Minnesotans’ solidarity didn’t just spring up when Trump’s goons came to town. It

Democrats hold 6-point lead over GOP on generic ballot: Poll

Democrats are ahead of Republicans by 6 percentage points on a generic congressional ballot, according to a new poll. In the poll from Emerson College, 48.1 percent of respondents backed a Democratic candidate in a hypothetical 2026 matchup. The Republican candidate garnered

Trump’s new order and Germany’s comeback opportunity

Donald Trump is changing the world. Foreign policy is no longer hiding behind legal masquerade, it is becoming real. It is no longer based on “values”, be they left-liberal-woke or neo-con, and it no longer acts universalistically in multilateral structures, but through