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Ugandan athlete Kimuli  survives death but country mate at the wheel Kikuba, was not that lucky Ohio State, US | THE INDEPENDENT | A former Ugandan athlete Musa Kimuli is nursing severe head injuries in a US hospital following a fatal road accident in which a fellow Ugandan died on …

New York, US | Xinhua |  Long COVID is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work in the United States, with lost wages estimated at least 170 billion U.S. dollars a year, a significant economic burden at a time when the cost of living is rising steeply, …

Los Angeles, US | Xinhua | The New York State and New York City (NYC) departments of health said Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified polioviruses from sewage samples in the largest city of the United States, suggesting likely local circulation of the virus. …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng urgently summoned the U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns late Tuesday night and lodged stern representations and strong protests over Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s visit to China’s Taiwan region. Noting that Pelosi risks universal …

Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mukono municipality Member of Parliament Betty Bakireke Nambooze has been cleared by the Medical Board to travel to the United States for treatment. The breakthrough comes after the intervention of the Speaker of Parliament Annet Anita Among who directed the Medical Board to fast-track …

Why American policymakers shouldn’t conflate reasserting its global primacy with establishing a more secure world COMMENT | DANI RODRIK | When I started teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School in the mid-1980s, competition with Japan was the dominant preoccupation of U.S. economic policy. The book `Japan as Number One’ by Harvard’s …

Washington, USA | Xinhua | U.S. household wealth declined for the first time in two years in the first quarter this year, edging down to 149.3 trillion U.S. dollars, Reuters reported. The U.S. Federal Reserve on Thursday released figures on the financial health of U.S. households in a report for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Bad news: America is back in Somalia THE LAST WORD Museveni’s Umeme mistake: Why the refusal to renew their concession is not a big loss to Ugandan workers and investors and a boom …

Caracas, Venezuela | Xinhua | Venezuela confirmed a decision by the United States to ease oil sanctions, calling for a total lifting of the U.S. sanctions on the South American country. “The Bolivarian Government of Venezuela has verified and confirmed the news … that the United States of America has …

Washington, US | Xinhua |  The White House held an event Friday afternoon to mark the Senate confirmation of the first African American woman for the Supreme Court. U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris showed up at the South Lawn, alongside Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, in front …