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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Twelve and a half billion dollars. That’s the price tag on one of sport’s most storied franchises, and the buyers are two of the most connected names in American business. The Los Angeles Lakers are changing hands again, and this time, the ripple effects could reshape how we think about sports ownership entirely.
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East Africa raises millions of cattle, grows vast fields of cotton, and presses some of the continent’s finest vegetable oils, yet the region sends most of it abroad as raw commodity, letting other countries pocket the real money. The numbers tell a stark and uncomfortable story. And the fix, experts say, is no mystery.
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Uganda’s beloved songbird Rema Namakula has put a spotlight on something the local music industry rarely discusses openly: the way Ugandan artists speak and sing English could be the very thing blocking them from global stages. It’s a raw, honest take, and it’s got people talking.
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Every school sports day, nativity play, and graduation ceremony gets documented online these days. It feels wholesome. It feels celebratory. But buried beneath all those smiling faces is a question that is becoming impossible to ignore: who else is looking at those photos, and what are they doing with them?
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