Nigeria is set to receive a $1.05bn syndicated loan backed by oil from the African Import Export Bank next month. The loan is part of a larger $3.3bn prepayment facility arranged by Afreximbank, with repayment terms tied to crude cargoes from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. According to Bloomberg, Afreximbank’s Senior Executive Vice President Read More
RAF may have to recall three Voyager aircraft to transport migrants to Rwanda. News comes as Rishi Sunak faces criticism over failures to fund the scheme. In 2022, a private firm pulled out due to pressure from Left-wing campaigners
Venezuela's socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro attempted to issue a message in English to U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss the upcoming expiration of Biden's generous oil and gas sanctions relief package to his regime.
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It’s the internal voice whose strict, unbending standards can make us miserable. But tuning in to it can change everythingSign up for Well Actually, a free weekly newsletter about health and wellnessWhen I first became her patient, I heard everything my therapist said as a criticism. Almost every word that came out of her mouth, I received as a telling off, a character assassination or a low mark. I thought to myself: “I’m paying this woman to help me and all she’s doing is criticising me! How...
Although it hardly looks like it, President Joe Biden may already be peaking in his race to keep the White House. His biggest internal threat remains: his inability to campaign effectively. And his biggest external threat looms: Though the country seems to expect a soft landing from inflation’s heights, this week’s economic data prove Biden’s […]
Posties always ring twice but in most of Australia from next week the reassuring tinkle accompanying the delivery of letters will only be heard every second day. The long-term shift to email has led to losses of nearly $200 million for Australia Post, ending the era of regular daily drops in the letterbox. Letters from […]
Boeing has achieved the unthinkable this week: It managed to fall even deeper into crisis. Adding to an already miserable start to 2024, Boeing stood accused Tuesday of routinely ignoring a whistleblower’s complaints about the allegedly critically flawed manufacturing process for its 787 Dreamliner planes. The whistleblower claimed Boeing retaliated against him and put him on the 777 unit as punishment. That’s when, he says, he found even more production problems. Boeing strongly denies the...
Rihanna is getting this beauty confession off her chest. The "Lift Me Up" singer revealed that she's considering plastic surgery, especially now that she's a mom of two under two. After all, she
Each pregnancy is linked with an additional two to three months of biological ageing, researchers sayPregnancy may speed up biological ageing in women, a study has found.Scientists at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York looked at the reproductive histories and DNA samples from 1,735 people in a long-term, continuing health survey in the Philippines to investigate the influence pregnancy has on the ageing process. Continue reading
There was a moment when I thought Larry David was gonna get a bullet in his head. He’s about to go on trial in the series finale of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” for violating an unjust election law in Georgia when he pisses off guest star Allison Janney — a woman who plays characters you NEVER want to piss off — by flipping her off in traffic, truthering her suicide attempt, and surreptitiously convincing Richard Lewis to break up with her. Upon entering the courtroom for the verdict, Lewis informs...