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The United States has canceled the visa of Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian writer and playwright who became the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.Speaking at Kongi’s Harvest Gallery in Lagos on Tuesday, Soyinka read out a notice he recently received from the local US consulate asking him to arrive with his passport in order to invalidate his visa.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list“For physical cancellations, please bring your visa to the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos. To schedule an appointment, please contact us via email and other information prior to the appointment,” Soyinka…

South Africa won their opening T20 cricket match against Pakistan by 55 runs despite the return of Babar Azam and amidst the tourist disaster.Babar Azam was dismissed for a duck in his return to T20 cricket as an underpowered South Africa defeated Pakistan by 55 runs in the opening match of the trifecta.Pakistan could not recover from Corbin Bosch’s twin strikes, including the wicket of Babar, as South Africa defeated the home team for 139 on Tuesday, much to the disappointment of 16,000 home fans at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listSouth Africa were 194-9…

The Trump administration has not delivered $9.7 million worth of contraceptives purchased by the United States to women overseas and is storing them in a warehouse in Belgium, but aid workers are raising concerns that the U.S. government is running out of time to expire them. CNN previously reported that contraceptives that were supposed to be donated to African countries after being procured by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) during the Biden administration have not been delivered. They are now being stored indefinitely in a Belgian warehouse, as the United States has discontinued many of its foreign…

Reiss Nelson starred in his first start for Brentford as the Bees advanced to the Carabao Cup quarter-finals with a resounding 5-0 win, ending League Two Grimsby Town’s memorable run in the competition.Although the Bees led 3-0 at halftime, the first 20 minutes told a very different story. Grimsby had more than 60 per cent possession of the ball than any other Premier League side, with Charles Burnham and Evan Khouri both making saves at their near posts. A repeat of the win against Manchester United looked like a possibility. But after Grimsby gave away the ball easily on the…

Owen Sakawa, founder of Elloe AI, wants his platform to be the “immune system for AI” and the “antivirus for all AI agents.” The idea, Sakawa said in an interview a few days ago at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, where Elloe AI was named a Top 20 finalist in the Startup Battlefield competition, is to add a layer to a company’s LLM that checks for bias, hallucinations, errors, compliance issues, misinformation, and unsafe output. “AI is evolving at such a rapid pace that there are no guardrails, no safety nets, no mechanisms to keep it from going off the rails,”…

The Fed is expected to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point at its meeting this week, and could do so at its next two meetings, according to a CNBC Fed poll from October.But 38 survey respondents, including economists, strategists and fund managers, voiced concerns about a lack of data on the government shutdown, an artificial intelligence bubble, still-high inflation and whether politics are playing a role in the Fed’s decisions.”Flying blindfolded into a snowstorm with no backup instruments is not the best situation for monetary policy,” said Guy Lebas, chief fixed income strategist at Janney Montgomery…

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) Live Keynote Pregame on October 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Imagesnokia announced on Tuesday Nvidia is acquiring a $1 billion stake in a networking company, its latest partnership with an artificial intelligence chip maker.Nokia’s stock price soared 22% on the news.Nokia plans to issue more than 166 million new shares and use the proceeds to fund AI and other general corporate objectives.The two companies also entered into a strategic partnership to collaborate on the development of next-generation 6G mobile phone technology. Nokia…

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as forecasters predicted the Category 5 storm was likely to cause “catastrophic” flash flooding, landslides and widespread damage, directly impacting up to 1.5 million people.The U.S. National Hurricane Center called on Jamaicans to evacuate to “safe locations” on Tuesday as ferocious winds and torrential rain pounded the Caribbean country’s western side after making landfall in the parishes of St. Elizabeth and Westmoreland.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation!” he said in a post to X.The National Hurricane Center reported maximum sustained wind speeds of 295…

At least 64 people were killed in a major police operation targeting organized crime in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, security officials told CNN Brasil. The dead included four Brazilian police officers, the official added. Footage obtained by CNN Brazil shows multiple fires breaking out at the scene of the attack and gunshots heard in the background. Authorities have launched an operation aimed at “combat the territorial expansion” of the criminal organization Commando Vermelho, the Rio de Janeiro government added in a long thread on X. The operation has been underway for more than a year and involved more than…

OpenAI says its deep learning systems are rapidly advancing, with more models able to solve complex tasks faster. So fast, in fact, that OpenAI internally aims to have intern-level research assistants by September 2026 and fully automated “regular AI researchers” by 2028, CEO Sam Altman said in a livestream on Tuesday. This ambitious timeline was announced on the same day that OpenAI shed its nonprofit roots and completed its transition to a public benefit corporation structure. This reorganization frees OpenAI from the limitations of its nonprofit charter while also opening up new opportunities for raising capital. Jakub Pachocki, Principal Scientist…