Winnie Nwagi is not here for the commentary. The Ugandan singer has shut down body-shaming critics with characteristic bluntness, explaining that weight loss affects the body in different ways, and that she has absolutely nothing to prove.
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For a country sitting on one of the world’s most seismically restless geological features, Uganda has been building fast and auditing slowly. That changes now. A landmark agreement signed in Kampala sets the stage for the country’s first-ever nationwide structural survey of buildings, and the stakes could not be higher.
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Nigel Farage walked away from his Clacton seat in early July, forced a byelection, and dropped more than £10,000 doing it. Now polls are open, Count Binface is on the ballot, and a separate storm is brewing over Chinese wind turbines in the Scottish Highlands. British politics, as reliably, has never been boring.
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Amazon has quietly turned one of the world’s biggest live-streaming platforms into a training ground for generative artificial intelligence. Twitch creators are now at the center of a debate about data, consent, and who really owns a livestream. The lines between entertainment and machine learning have never been blurrier.
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Iga Swiatek has not had the kind of 2026 her fans were expecting. But in Toronto, the six-time Grand Slam champion showed exactly why you never count her out. Elena Rybakina stands between her and title number 26.
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Fifty cyclists clipped into their pedals in Kampala and pointed their wheels toward the horizon, carrying with them a message that no summit or signed treaty could quite deliver the same way. Across Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi, they will cover 6,500 kilometres of tarmac, dust, and elevation. This is soft diplomacy on two wheels, and it is moving faster than you might think.
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A new chapter in Uganda’s diplomatic story opened this week as Ambassador Adonia Ayebare formally received the keys to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. After nearly two months of steady stewardship under acting minister Haruna Kasolo, the transition signals fresh energy at the top of the country’s international engagement machinery. Here is what the handover means and why it matters.
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Uganda has a new Foreign Affairs Minister with an old-school sense of discipline and a very modern demand: results. Adonia Ayebare, a seasoned diplomat who spent decades climbing the ranks of Uganda’s foreign service, walked into the ministry’s Kampala headquarters and made one thing crystal clear, the era of consequence-free diplomacy is over.
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The White House podium is about to have a new face. Karoline Leavitt, one of the most recognizable voices of the Trump administration, is stepping down as press secretary. Meanwhile, fresh inflation numbers are painting a complicated picture of the U.S. economy.
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A tragedy that unfolded in real time on a private Discord server has pushed Brazil’s data protection authority to take one of the most aggressive regulatory actions ever aimed at a major messaging platform. Five teenagers are in custody. A grieving country wants answers. And Discord is scrambling.
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