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The leaders of the Brics grouping greet each other after their closing speeches on Thursday on the last day of the 15th Brics summit in Sandton. With the BRICS summit now concluded, Siphamandla Zondi looks at three aspects that will be discussed and debated for a long time. The 15th BRICS summit in…

The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi attend the Brics Business Summit on August 22, 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Brics summit is held in South Africa between (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images) China’s Xi Jinping, the…

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FXX FXX has premiered the trailer for the fourteenth and final season of the long-running, Emmy Award-winning adult animated spy comedy series “Archer”. The long-running series follows the workplace members of a dysfunctional intelligence agency in a Cold War-esque yet contemporary universe – allowing it to parody espionage, culture and…

Season 5 of Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 2 introduced the FR Advancer assault rifle, which is essentially a replica of the FFAR-1 from Black Ops Cold War. Players who used the FFAR will immediately feel comfortable with the FR Advancer, as it behaves in most of the…

Last week, the man who thawed the original freeze between capitalist America and communist China in the early 1970s returned to Beijing. Not quite Mani Shankar Aiyar going to Islamabad to cure relations - or former American basketballer Dennis Rodman going to Kim Jong-un's North Korea - but 'Henry Kissinger…

Eastern European Cold War–era computing has a poor reputation. The picture is one of a landscape littered with uninspired attempts to copy American IBM PCs, British ZX Spectrums, and other Western computers. But then there was Yugoslavia’s Galaksija, a very inspired bid to put a computer into the hands of…

The new film from Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer,” starts and ends in the round. In the opening shot, ripples expand in puddles as raindrops fall. Three hours later, we get a vision of Earth beginning to burn, as nuclear explosions bloom across the globe. Nolan is always entranced by the vast…

Skip to headerSkip to main contentSkip to footer Profile Global superstar champions Latino culture, speaks out against corruption and challenges gender norms Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny can add another feather to his global stardom cap: his 2022 release “Un Verano Sin Ti” has become Spotify’s most streamed album of…