The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SCD), is launching the Blue Peace Financing Structure for the first ever Blue Peace Bond. The event will be held during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, on January 19, 2023, from 9.00 to 10 am, at…
The 2023 Golden Globe Awards ceremony on NBC received the lowest ratings in the history of the network. Despite drawing over 6.3 million viewers, the 2023 Golden Globe awards ceremony received the lowest NBC rating in history of the network. The 80th annual event was held January 10 and boasted historic wins that included Angela…
Thirty-nine people were killed and more than 100 others injured when two buses crashed in a head-on collision overnight on an arterial road in Senegal’s central Kaffrine region, President Macky Sall told reporters Sunday. Images of the incident showed the completely mangled front end of a white bus, with blood-flecked seats, personal items and a…
Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy has emerged as the elected Speaker of the United States’ House of Representatives. McCarthy emerged in the early hours of Saturday after 15 rounds of voting overcoming the opposition of right-wing rebels who had upset his bid to lead the chamber for several days. The Californian veteran politician eventually secured the…
A six-year-old boy from Richneck Elementary School, Newport News, Virginia, in the United States, has been detained by the police after shooting his teacher. The police said the teacher, a woman in her 30s is battling life-threatening gun wounds in a hospital after the grave incident happened around 2 pm on Friday. According to Evening…
