Los Angeles, United States | AFP | Superstar LeBron James warned his young Los Angeles Lakers teammates that his patience was wearing thin after a third narrow loss less than two weeks into the new regular season. “You probably don’t want to be around when my patience runs out. I’m …

Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | The Democratic Republic of Congo is “not ready” to hold long-delayed elections in December, the main opposition party said Tuesday, the day after the army handed over 150 trucks and a dozen aircraft for use by the electoral commission. “One hundred fifty trucks can’t …

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Wilfried Zaha claims he suffered racist abuse and threats to his family after he won a controversial penalty in Crystal Palace’s 2-2 draw against Arsenal. Palace forward Zaha was clipped by Granit Xhaka in the closing minutes of Sunday’s Premier League clash, with Luka …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former finance minister Prof Ezra Suruma has said that Uganda’s financial sector is defective and should be reformed to serve all Ugandans. Suruma said that three decades after liberalization, the banking sector has not reached the ordinary grassroots Ugandan even though the World Bank and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tea farmers in Greater Bushenyi are counting loses following a drop of tea prices by at least Shillings 200 per kilogram. Greater Bushenyi is comprised of Bushenyi, Mitooma, Sheema, Buhweju and Rubirizi districts. John Bomukama, a tea farmer in Bitooma Sub County in Bushenyi district, …

Berlin, Germany | AFP | Angela Merkel on Monday announced she will quit as German chancellor when her mandate ends in 2021, as she sought to curtail a series of political crises that have rocked her fragile coalition. Often described as the world’s most powerful woman and Europe’s de facto …

Washington, United States | AFP | Some 75,000 youths under the age of 18 were sent to US emergency rooms due to gun violence from 2006 to 2014, at a cost of some $2.5 billion, researchers said Monday. That’s the equivalent of around 8,300 cases per year, according to the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 600 staffs of Makerere University have missed their October Salary after a technical error, Charles Barugahare, the University Secretary has said. URN has learnt that all staff invoices for October 2018 were uploaded on the Integrated Financial Management System – IFMS on October …

Madrid, Spain | AFP | Julen Lopetegui’s brief and inglorious reign as Real Madrid coach lasted just 139 days after the club confirmed he had been sacked on Monday. Lopetegui was dismissed following a meeting of the board of directors, who concluded there had been a “great disproportion between the …

Tampa, United States | AFP | NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which launched earlier this year, has set a new record for becoming the closest human-made object to the Sun, the US space agency announced Monday. “The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles (42.73 million kilometers) from the …