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In SummaryThe Environmental Performance Index (EPI) evaluates nations based on metrics like air quality, waste management, and renewable energy use. African countries are leading with innovative solutions like turning waste into energy and banning single-use plastics.Grassroots initiatives, like community cleanups and “Green Ambassadors,” showcase collective efforts toward urban sustainability.How often do you think about the air you breathe, the streets you walk on, or the water you drink? For many Africans, these questions are becoming increasingly important as urbanization continues to accelerate across the continent. But amidst the challenges, some nations are setting extraordinary examples of cleanliness and environmental sustainability. These…

Efforts to minimize the damage from a leaked Signal chat.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it had terminated 113 contracts valued at $4.7 billion Tuesday, including a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) consulting contract for Peru’s climate change activities.”[Tuesday] agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7B and savings of $3.3B, including a $145K USDA consulting contract for ‘Peru climate change activities,'” the department posted on X. DOGE credit card scissor (iStock)DOGE also announced the Department of Labor had canceled $577 million in “America Last” grants, totaling $237 million in savings.The funding that was canceled included $10 million for “gender equity in the Mexican workplace,”…

The federal authorities said this week that they had broken up a major dogfighting kennel in Oklahoma led by the former National Football League running back LeShon Johnson, seizing 190 pit-bull-type dogs in what they described as the most ever taken from a single person in a federal case.In a news release, the Justice Department said on Tuesday that a 21-count indictment against Mr. Johnson, 54, had recently been unsealed in federal court in Muskogee, Okla. He was arrested on March 20 and arraigned the same day before being released, according to court documents.Mr. Johnson, who played for the Green…

ATHENS, Ga. — They were the most tense, most exciting moments of the Georgia football season, arguably the most exciting in the entire college football season: an epic game against Georgia Tech that stretched to eight overtimes and well past midnight. And as Nazir Stackhouse stood on the sideline, he was fighting an internal battle.Stay awake, he kept telling himself. Somebody score and end this. Stay awake. Don’t fall asleep.That’s what happened a few years before at Tennessee. The Georgia offense was on a long drive, and Stackhouse, a nose tackle, was on the bench with the rest of the…

A shop owner so concerned he was being targeted by a crime syndicate he sold his business and moved house, as the alleged extortions were caught on camera.

To be sure, China undoubtedly plays a much larger role in some areas. One important study finds that indirect Chinese imports via third countries are higher in strategic sectors. Last year, America imposed heavy import duties on Vietnamese solar panels for containing excessive Chinese content. That assessment is probably right, given China dominates global solar panel supply chains. And if we focus only on the increase in Vietnam’s exports to America since 2018, rather than the total, the estimated share that reflects indirect Chinese content rises to about 40 per cent. Chinese manufacturing investment is also pouring into Vietnam. In…

Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua was killed when Israeli fighters jets bombed his tent shelter in northern Gaza.A Hamas spokesperson has been killed by an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza, news outlets have confirmed, as Israel’s army continues its renewed assault on the besieged enclave. Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua was killed when Israeli fighter jets bombed his tent shelter in the northern city of Jabalia in the early hours of Thursday morning, according to Al-Aqsa television and the Shehab News Agency. Several more people were wounded in the strike, including children, according to Hind Khoudary, an Al Jazeera correspondent in…

The Atlantic on Wednesday posted screenshots and a fuller text chain from the Signal group chat that inadvertently included a journalist, after the White House and top administration officials on the chat claimed no “war plans” were discussed.The screenshots show the timing and targets of the attack on Houthis in Yemen earlier this month were shared by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and discussed in the chat. The White House has stated — and Cabinet officials testified Tuesday — the information in the group chat wasn’t classified, even though Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg received tactical details before the attack.   At 11:44…

A U.S. Army wife stationed at Fort Eisenhower in Georgia awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to the 2023 murder of her infant son, who was found stabbed to death in a shower curtain.April Evalyn Short, 31, of Fort Eisenhower, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, according to a statement Tuesday from Tara M. Lyons, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. As part of the negotiated plea agreement, Short will serve 20 years in prison, along with substantial financial penalties and five years of supervision after her release, according to Lyons. There is no parole in the federal system. April…