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Valve has launched the Steam Machine gaming computer at a higher price than it previously expected, in what it has attributed to soaring component costs.The gaming giant said in a blog post, external on Monday that its new gaming PC, which also doubles as a console, would retail at £879 in the UK and $1,049 in the US – a price tag it said reflects hardware costs rising in recent years.”The overall effect is that our original goal for the price of Steam Machine is no longer viable,” Valve added.The price also comes amid a broader pattern of device manufacturers…

Nigel Farage has said “it’s not the public’s business” to know details of how he spends a £5m gift from a billionaire Reform UK donor.Speaking to the BBC, the Reform leader said the money from British cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne was an “unconditional gift, I can spend it on cars if I want to”.He went on to say the money was for his personal security and he will need protection “until the day that I die”, but declined to confirm how much he has spent.Farage has argued he did not need to declare the gift because he received it before…

A tanker fire at the Ugwu Onyeama axis of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway has claimed three lives and destroyed property estimated at N900 million. The Deputy Superintendent of Fire, Federal Fire Service, Maxwell Ucheagwu, confirmed the incident to reporters on Tuesday in Enugu. According to Mr Ucheagwu, the fire incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, 22 June, following a collision involving a Dangote truck loaded with bags of cement and a tanker transporting Liquefied Natural Gas. He said the Federal Fire Service Command in Enugu received a distress call at about 3:28 a.m. and immediately deployed personnel and firefighting…

Belgium winger Jeremy Doku has become a father after temporarily leaving the Red Devils’ FIFA World Cup camp to be with his family, bringing a heartwarming conclusion to a story that sparked widespread debate across European football. The Belgian Football Association confirmed on Monday that Doku and his wife have welcomed a baby boy named Praise, just days after the Manchester City star travelled to London ahead of Belgium’s World Cup clash against Iran. According to the federation, the decision to allow Doku to leave the national team camp followed consultations with the team’s medical staff after it became clear…

Oprah Winfrey took the Croisette at Cannes Lions on Tuesday, drawing a crowd that filled the event venue’s stage-level seating to the brim about 30 minutes ahead of the 10 a.m. start time of her keynote appearance. Soon, folks started making their way to the upper level to ensure they could catch the TV host, producer, actress, author, philanthropist and outright media icon. And when Winfrey took to the stage, phone cameras lit up the room as the crowd erupted into a roar. Winfrey came to town to receive the 2026 Cannes LionHeart an honor celebrating “individuals who are driving positive change.”…

The police have confirmed eight deaths in a violent clash between crop farmers and cattle herders in Gulma Town, Argungu Local Government Area of Kebbi State. Reacting to the development, which occurred on Monday, the authorities have imposed a curfew and deployed additional security personnel to the area. The Kebbi State Police Command said the violence followed a dispute over alleged destruction of farmland by cattle. Police spokesperson Bashir Usman said in a statement on Tuesday that the incident began at about 3 p.m. when cattle being grazed by a herder, Yaron Dogo, allegedly stray into a farm belonging to…

Ebola has now infected more than 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an outbreak that has spread to a third displacement camp and killed an 18-month-old girl. Congo’s government confirmed that its death toll reached 254. The speed of its spread across three provinces of eastern Congo has prompted warnings from African health experts that the outbreak could eventually surpass the epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people across West Africa from 2014 to 2016. A Congolese health report stated that the 18-month-old baby was tested for Ebola on June 14 in the Hungbe displacement camp and…

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump said that de la Espriella had “won easily”, even though his lead of 0.96 percentage points in the preliminary count is the narrowest in recent Colombian history.Writing on Truth Social, Trump said he was looking forward to working together “to build a powerful relationship”.The relationship between the two historic allies had suffered in recent years as Trump traded insults with Colombia’s outgoing president, the left-winger Gustavo Petro.Trump had called Petro a “sick man” and a “drug-trafficking leader” without providing any evidence, while Petro had said that the US president was basing his immigration policy…

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Ivorypay, a stablecoin payment infrastructure company operating across 17 African countries, has launched support for the X402 payment protocol, making it the first company on the continent to do so. The integration allows software applications and AI agents to make and receive stablecoin payments natively over HTTP, using the standard 402 Payment Required status code. X402 is an open protocol that enables machine-to-machine payments without human intervention. When a client application requests a paid resource from a server, the server responds with an HTTP 402 status code and a payment request. The client settles the payment in stablecoins on-chain, and…