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Nigerian billionaire Dangote proposes new East Africa refinery
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote unveiled plans to build a crude oil refinery in Tanzania that would replicate the output of his giant plant in Lagos to leverage continent-wide calls...
Volkswagen unveils China NEV blitz: 20+ models in 2026, AI agents and Level 3 ADAS roadmap
Volkswagen logo Volkswagen unveiled a China-focused product blitz with more than 20 new-energy vehicles in 2026 (about a new product every two weeks), 13 NEVs this year for the...
Canada’s Once-Thriving Limestone Quarry Is Now A World-Famous Garden With Endless Breathtaking Flowers
Quarries typically evoke a certain kind of imagery: roughly hewn walls, crushed rubble underfoot, and stone slabs carelessly abandoned in unsightly heaps. But, on Canada's Vancouver Island, one such...
South Africa’s police chief suspended over corruption allegations
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's top police official was suspended by the president on Thursday after he was charged with breaking finance laws related to an allegedly corrupt police...
UK borrowing lowest for three years but Iran war clouds outlook
[Getty Images] Annual UK government borrowing has fallen to a three-year low, but analysts do not expect the improvement to last because of the impact of the Iran war....
Posts resurface old video of violent demonstrations to fan anti-immigrant sentiment
South Korea's acceptance of more immigrants in recent years to address the problem of its rapidly shrinking workforce has also fuelled anti-foreigner sentiment in the country, but footage circulating...
MotoMaster Hydra Edge Plus Tire Review
Clarington, ON - Canadian Tire is an institution that, from coast-to-coast, generations of Canucks have been visiting for a plethora of needs over the past century. For those outside...
UK goods prices rise on conflict-driven inflation, clothing, footwear escape for now
According to the UK Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) latest CPI inflation figures, clothing and footwear prices fell by 0.8% in the 12 months to March 2026. This marks...
PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the explosion and fire struck the...
Taiwan leader cancels Eswatini visit after overflight permits revoked
President Lai Ching-te has cancelled a state visit to Eswatini this week after several countries along the route abruptly revoked overflight permissions, Taiwanese officials said on Tuesday, blaming China.Presidential...
