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Tehran gives Swedish official 48 hours to leave as Iran says Stockholm is bowing down to outside pressure.Published On 18 Sep 202618 Sep 2026Iran has ordered a Swedish diplomat to leave the country one day after Sweden expelled an Iranian embassy official in Stockholm.Sweden’s action was described by Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as “unjustified” on Thursday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“Without doubt, this action by the Swedish government is the result of the influence of the Zionist regime and an effort to disrupt the normal activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Embassy in Stockholm,” the Foreign…

Football Association chair Debbie Hewitt has demanded that FIFA president Gianni Infantino release all documents relating to his abandoned plan to sell a stake in the World Cup before the FIFA Council’s next meeting on October 15. Hewitt, who is also a FIFA vice-president and Council member, has written to Infantino and FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafstrom seeking full disclosure over the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal, which envisaged transferring commercial rights linked to FIFA’s major competitions to a new company backed by private investment. Read Also: Infantino apologises as FIFA admits mistakes over World Cup sell-off plan She also…

Geothermal startup Mazama Energy raised $135 million in an oversubscribed Series B, the startup said Thursday. The fresh funding will help the company develop horizontal wells in super-hot rocks capable of generating 15 megawatts of electricity per well. Mazama plans to start generating electricity sometime next year and said its first site in Oregon is capable of producing 10 gigawatts of electricity. That’s a sharp upward revision from the company’s estimate last year, when investor Vinod Khosla said the site had the potential to produce 5 gigawatts. Enhanced geothermal startups are shaping up to be the dark horse in the…

Pressed by presenter Matt Chorley on how the rise will still mean Wandsworth’s council tax is lower than many councils across the country, Badenoch said it would still worry some families.”I think if you suddenly have a nearly 100% increase in your council tax, you would be extremely worried. Families have budgets,” she said.”Just because on average it’s lower than somewhere else doesn’t mean that people are going to be able to afford it.”She refused to say what alternative rate of increase she would propose, but questioned why a 40% cut was being imposed on the council when “Andy Burnham…

A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia’s ⁠cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living feline species has been formally named and described in more than a century.The cat, called tilcayo by local communities, is part of a group called tiger ⁠cats found across much of South ⁠America. It was found in Bolivia’s ​lush Yungas forest, a mountainous region where forests are often covered by clouds and surrounded by high humidity, according to researchers. It measures about 18in (46cm) long and weighs about 3lb (1.4kg), making it smaller than the average…

On Thursday, an International Arbitration Tribunal under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris issued an award in favour of Nigeria, rejecting the claims in the arbitration instituted by Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Ltd (Sunrise). The company had made a claim against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, demanding $680 million as a settlement sum and interest in respect of another arbitration in which it is claiming over $2.7 billion in compensation and interest. The claim relates to disputes associated with the development of the 3,960 MW Mambila Hydroelectric Power Project in Taraba State. The tribunal,…

Gov. Alex Otti of Abia says he will neither be a godfather nor impose his successor on the state after serving his second tenure in 2031. Otti spoke on Thursday in Umuahia, while receiving a former Social Democratic Party Gubernatorial Candidate, Mrs Ngozi Johnson-Chukwunenye, and her supporters into the Labour Party (LP). He said that leadership succession should be based on identifying the most suitable person for the job, rather than perpetuating a “sit-tight” culture. He said that the person who would succeed him would be better equipped to provide quality leadership to the people. Otti said: “The most important thing you…

Russians head to the polls for the first time since the Russia-Ukraine war began in 2022. United Russia has been the governing party for over two decades, backed by President Vladimir Putin. Do other parties pose a challenge? Al Jazeera’s Dmitry Medvedenko reports from Moscow.Published On 17 Sep 202617 Sep 2026Share Russia election: Could other parties challenge United Russia? on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

L-R: Bismarck Rewane, managing director/CEO, Financial Derivatives Company; Aliko Dangote, president/CE, Dangote Industries Limited; Muhammadu Sanusi II; (Special Guest of Honour & Chairman) Emir of Kano, His Highness; Adetilewa Adebajo (panelist), CEO, the CFG Advisory; Bashir Aliyu Umar (speaker, Sharia perspectives of the IPO) president of the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria; at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery IPO Roadshow tagged “Kano Grand Homecoming” in Kano on Thursday, September 17, 2026. …Challenges detractors to mobilise $22bn for a competing refinery His Royal Highness Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi II, the Emir of Kano, on Thursday mounted a spirited defence of the Dangote…

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time to pump the brakes and “pace the frontier” of bleeding-edge AI development. Their motivations are suspect, but leaders at major AI companies — including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and X — are at least paying lip service to the idea of a superintelligence slowdown. Will…