The groups have been active in Ethiopia’s most populous regions for years and now say they will work together. ...
Month: September 2026
Airlines criticise air traffic control as second glitch causes more disruptionAirlines criticise air traffic control as second glitch causes more disruption
EasyJet says the latest incident “once again calls into question the resilience” of the system. ...
Yemenis flee across Red Sea as Houthis and Saudi-backed forces escalate warYemenis flee across Red Sea as Houthis and Saudi-backed forces escalate war
The BBC’s Frank Gardner speaks to some of those who have fled the war by crossing the Red Sea to Djibouti ...
Data centers drive a surge in climate tech fundingData centers drive a surge in climate tech funding
The Scoop The data center buildout is driving a rush of venture capital investment in clean tech, breathing new life into startups that were at risk of being steamrolled by the Trump administration’s pullback on climate policy. Global climate tech venture investment hit $26 billion in the first half of ...
Conflict isn’t slowing deals for Gulf’s fastest-growing investment firmConflict isn’t slowing deals for Gulf’s fastest-growing investment firm
The Scene With drones and missiles still being regularly intercepted overhead, BlueFive Capital founder and CEO Hazem Ben-Gacem cooked up a play in the defense industry, over a Ramadan meal with companions with ties to a Gulf sovereign fund. Six months later, BlueFive is “ready to launch it,” Ben-Gacem told ...
Inside a low-key House Democratic leadership fightInside a low-key House Democratic leadership fight
The News House Democrats are fighting over the pecking order in their extended leadership hierarchy as they hope to win the majority. In recent days, allies of both Reps. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., and Ted Lieu, D-Calif., have laid claim to the fourth-ranking slot in the majority as they look to ...
‘This pushes the boundaries’: White House helped Pentagon explain the legality of its stock deals‘This pushes the boundaries’: White House helped Pentagon explain the legality of its stock deals
The Scoop One month before the Pentagon announced its first equity stake in a company, its top lawyer asked the White House to explain why the deal wouldn’t break the law. The White House budget office responded with a previously unreported legal opinion, reviewed by Semafor, that provides a crucial ...
Why the Senate won’t vote to repeal new Canada tariffsWhy the Senate won’t vote to repeal new Canada tariffs
The News President Donald Trump’s new Canada tariffs are infuriating Democrats and annoying some Republicans — but Congress is unlikely to vote on them before the election. Trump’s use of a nearly century-old law to impose the levies takes away individual senators’ ability to force such a vote on the ...
‘I lost my children, and I’m afraid of losing my baby again’: a day in the life of a pregnant woman in Gaza‘I lost my children, and I’m afraid of losing my baby again’: a day in the life of a pregnant woman in Gaza
Alaa lives in a tent pitched on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike that killed all three of her children. In one month, she will give birth again. As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, this week, the Guardian follows five ordinary ...
From the ridicule of Trump to the rise of Jack Welch: how the 1980s shaped and changed AmericaFrom the ridicule of Trump to the rise of Jack Welch: how the 1980s shaped and changed America
In When America Roared, Pulitzer-winning reporter Jonathan Kaufman looks back to a decade of greed and excess, and uses it to explore where we are today Donald Trump is “so much a creature of the 80s but even in the 80s, everyone made fun of him,” Jonathan Kaufman said. General ...