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Billy Joel has postponed his tour by four months so can recover from surgery.The 75-year-old musician revealed he has been struck down by a mystery medical condition and needed to undergo an operation – so he’s pushed his 2025 shows back to give him time to recuperate.”Billy Joel’s upcoming concert dates will be rescheduled due to a medical condition,” a statement posted on his Instagram page said.”The current tour will be postponed for four months to allow him to recover from recent surgery and to undergo physical therapy under the supervision of his doctors.”Joel is expected to make a full…

“DRUG WAR” KILLINGS Pangalangan, who served in the ICC from 2015 to 2021, said international criminal law has evolved “to bring the highest leaders of governments to be accountable for their actions”.  “There is no such thing as head of state immunity, and there is no immunity that attaches to the acts committed by, in this case, President Duterte, even at the time when he was president,” he told CNA’s Asia First on Thursday.  Duterte, who arrived at Rotterdam The Hague Airport on a chartered plane on Wednesday, will be brought before an ICC judge in the coming days for…

In SummaryThe African AI market is projected to reach $4.92 billion by the end of 2025, while the robotics market is expected to reach $763.42 million.In Africa, AI and Robotics are contributing to diverse sectors, but the sectors having the most positive impact are agriculture, healthcare, and finance.The African AI market is projected to reach a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 27.42% from 2025 to 2030, resulting in a market volume of $16.53 billion by 2030.Africa has over 2,400 AI companies, with a significant increase in AI startups, especially in tech hubs like Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Egypt.Deep…

Niantic, the company behind the runaway hit Pokémon Go, said Wednesday that it has agreed to sell its video game business for $3.5 billion to Scopely, a company owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.Pokémon Go, an augmented reality mobile game, became a cultural sensation when it was released in 2016. Tens of millions of people around the world headed to streets, parks, beaches and even to the middle of the ocean to capture monsters from the Japanese cartoon franchise.The deal is the latest acquisition by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in a multibillion-dollar push into the video game industry.…

The Trump administration has abruptly cleared out a second group of migrants it brought to the American military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, returning to the United States 40 men it had flown there in the past few weeks, according to officials familiar with the matter.The government has not announced that it relocated the men to one or more Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Louisiana, nor was the reason for the move clear. But the officials familiar with the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue, said it happened on Tuesday.The move comes days…

President Trump has pardoned an imprisoned former Tennessee state senator who was two weeks into a 21-month sentence for his role in a campaign finance fraud scheme.Inmate records show that the former lawmaker, Brian Kelsey, a Republican, was released from a minimum-security satellite camp at FCI Ashland in Kentucky on Tuesday, the same day, his lawyer said, that he received a clemency letter from the president. The lawyer, Joy​​​​ Longnecker, provided a copy of the letter to The New York Times on Wednesday.Federal prosecutors charged Mr. Kelsey in 2021 with five criminal counts that stemmed from his failed 2016 congressional…

As Ontario Premier Doug Ford heads to Washington, D.C. for a meeting at the White House, his threat to tariff or cut off U.S. energy remains on the table and could return after the high-stakes date. Ford and his team are set to fly in and out of the U.S. capital on Thursday for a meeting with President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. The result of those talks could calm or reignite trade tensions.The meeting comes after a whirlwind week in which Ontario levelled a 25 per cent surcharge on the energy it exports to the U.S. before Trump…

The Tigers have rocketed to the top of the Broome Basketball Association senior men’s ladder as the semester one basketball competition began at the BRAC on March 12.

It’s time for the three-quarter-mark edition of the NBA Rookie Rankings.The good news is that a few rookies are at least improving as the season rolls along. The bad news is that this continues to be arguably the least productive rookie class of the last 20 years. Only five rookies are averaging double-figures in points, and one of those players, the Philadelphia 76ers’ Jared McCain, will play under 600 minutes this year because of a knee injury. For reference, last year there were eight double-figure scorers. The year before, there were nine. In 2022, we actually had 12! In 2021,…

President Trump’s imposition of tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports could make it more expensive to produce cars in the United States, dealing another blow to automakers already facing the potential of rising steel prices because of other policies from his administration.Top of mind for auto executives was the bid by the Japanese steel maker Nippon Steel to buy U.S. Steel. Many of them had hoped that Mr. Trump would be open to negotiating a deal to allow the acquisition to go ahead. Instead, the president confirmed last month that he opposed the proposed deal.Many auto industry executives believe…