Dominion, Fox News reach $787m settlement in defamation case

The voting machine maker had launched a $1.6bn lawsuit against the news network for its coverage of the 2020 US election. Fox News has reached a $787m settlement with election technology company Dominion Voting Systems, which accused the network of defamation in its 2020 United States presidential election coverage. Tuesday’s eleventh-hour agreement — reached as opening statements…

Where Outlaws Roam – Gruesome Murders On the Indian Ocean

ANALYSIS The award-winning investigative journalist Ian Urbinaexplains the video documentary series on human rights and environmental crimes committed on the oceans. Documentaries on abuses committed in oceans off the African continents are being published by AllAfrica. Two-thirds of the planet is covered by water, and much of that space is ungoverned. Human rights and environmental…

New Strategic Force Unveiled in DPRK

Updated at 0952 on 14 04 2023 Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) — The DPRK’s nuclear war deterrent for self-defence is rapidly developing at increasing speed in keeping with the immutable strategic line and policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government of the DPRK to ceaselessly develop the might of the strategic force…

Florida bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy

Florida’s Republican-dominated legislature on Thursday approved a ban on most abortions after six weeks — before many women know they are pregnant — a measure immediately assailed by the White House as “extreme and dangerous.” The bill passed 70 votes to 40 in the state’s lower House — a week after approval in the Senate…

DPRKorea tests first ever solid fuel ICBM, Hwasong-18

A longer-range solid-fuel ICBM has long been on leader Kim Jong Un’s weapons wish list. DPRKorea has announced the successful test of its first solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a key goal of leader Kim Jong Un’s plan to develop more advanced and powerful weaponry. The test was detected on Thursday by South Korea and…

Pentagon leaks: US thinks UN head Guterres too accommodating to Moscow, files suggest

By Paul Adams Diplomatic correspondent The US government believes the UN Secretary General is too willing to accommodate Russian interests, according to fresh revelations in classified documents leaked online. The files suggest Washington has been closely monitoring Antonio Guterres. Several documents describe private communications involving Mr Guterres and his deputy. It is the latest from…

Putin May Join South Africa’s BRICS Summit Virtually

By Andre van Wyk Cape Town — The South African government has elected to consider allowing Vladimir Putin’s remote attendance to the 2023 BRICS summit ion an effort to navigate the bureaucratic headache that the Russian leader’s presence risks due to the warrant of arrest issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his capture….

Korean People’s Life Seen through the Housing Law

Updated at 1543 on Tuesday 11th April 2023 by Earnest Kivumbi Benjamin Democratic People’s Republic of Korea The happy life of the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is guaranteed in part by the Law of the DPRK on Housing. The law, enacted in January 2009, stipulates that it is an essential requirement of its socialist…