Vladimir Putin has secured another six-year term as Russian president, exit polls showed Sunday, paving the way for the hardline former spy to become the longest-serving Russian leader in more than 200 years. Victory for the 71-year-old was never in doubt, with all his major opponents dead, in prison or exiled, and authorities waging an…
Twenty-two migrants including seven children have drowned after a boat capsized off the Turkish coast, local officials said on Friday. Two people were rescued by the Turkish coastguard and another two managed to make it out of the water on their own, officials said. The victims’ nationalities were not yet known. The boat capsized off…
MainOne has disclosed that seismic activity on the seabed may have caused cable breaks impacting Internet access in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, and other African countries. In a recent update, the digital infrastructure company, which has been one of the most hit, ruled out human activity as the cause of the cable cut, given…
Nissan and Honda announced Friday that they will work together in developing electric vehicles and auto intelligence technology, sectors where Japanese automakers have fallen behind. The chief executives of Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. appeared together at a news conference in Tokyo to announce that Japan’s second and third biggest automakers will look…
Oil prices decline on Friday but were on track to gain nearly 4% for the week, boosted by the International Energy Agency revising its 2024 oil demand forecasts higher and an unexpected decline in U.S. stockpiles. Brent crude oil futures fell 38 cents or 0.4% to $85.04 a barrel at 0751 GMT, after crossing $85…
The repairing of undersea submarine cables might take weeks. For full and regular Internet services to return to Nigeria and other West African countries, MainOne, a digital infrastructure service provider in the region, has said. This is as it disclosed that repairing its undersea submarine cables might take weeks. On Thursday, subsea cable providers were…
As many as 60 people are feared to have drowned on a vessel carrying migrants across the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy or Malta, the operators of a charity rescue group said on Thursday.SOS Mediterranee said it rescued 25 people in a “very weak” condition in coordination with the Italian Coast Guard on Wednesday and…
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on Thursday morning for a third test flight, a huge milestone in Elon Musk’s ambitions to send humans to Mars, although the spacecraft was later lost on re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. The massive Starship rocket launched from SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas-based facility at 9:25 A.M. ET. The rocket reached orbital…
A dozen countries across Africa suffered a major internet outage on Thursday as multiple undersea telecommunication cables reported failures, network operators and internet watch groups said. The MTN Group, one of Africa’s largest network providers, said the ongoing disruptions were a result of failures in multiple major undersea cables. “Our operations are actively working to…
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, a unit of Goldman Sachs Group, aims to expand its private credit portfolio to $300 billion in five years from the current $130 billion, a senior executive said, laying out an aggressive expansion plan. “It’s a huge opportunity,” Marc Nachmann, Goldman’s global head of asset and wealth management, told Reuters in…
