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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.In the Tokyo office of Naoya Hida, a small Japanese independent watch company, there are hundreds of books and magazines dedicated to watches. Hida, now in his sixties, began a career in watch retail in the 1990s and has been collecting them for decades. He holds one up: it’s called Wristwatch Chronometers.“I purchased this book in 1996,” he says in neat English. “And in it I found the Zenith Calibre 135 movement and I fell in love with it. I tried to…

Rockstar’s long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI is launching November 19th, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X consoles. The game will be available digitally at launch, with physical cases containing codes, not discs, so your options for preordering are straightforward. The preloading phase for the game begins on November 12th, which should give you plenty of time to install the game.There are two versions of the game to choose from, the $79.99 Standard and $99.99 Ultimate editions. Both include the same preorder perks. You’ll get the Vintage Vice City Pack when the game launches. It’s a set of in-game…

NewsFeedA sports stadium in La Guaira state has been turned into a makeshift home and logistics centre for thousands of victims of the Venezuela earthquakes. As Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi reports aid organizations are planning to make this a model for other shelters.Published On 6 Jul 20266 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Political rallies are often dismissed as spectacles that bear little relationship to election outcomes. History has shown that large crowds do not necessarily translate into votes, just as modest gatherings do not always signal electoral weakness. Yet, there are moments when a political event becomes significant not because of attendance figures but because of the message it sends about the direction of a political movement. The recent Kwara’ndupe rally in Ilorin deserves to be viewed through this lens. Coming just days after the All Progressives Congress (APC) concluded its governorship primary in Kwara State, the rally became one of the…

The White House contacted FIFA President Gianni Infantino to request a review of Folarin Balogun’s red card during the FIFA World Cup, according to a person familiar with the matter. The report, first published by the Associated Press on Sunday, said the source spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the call publicly. According to the source, the White House reached out to FIFA seeking a review of the decision to send off the United States forward. However, the person said they could not provide further details about who specifically made the call or when…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “New York,” the fifth episode of “The Vampire Lestat,” now streaming on AMC+. When costume designer Lex Wood started planning the wardrobe for “The Vampire Lestat” — or Season 3 of “Interview with the Vampire” — she had one word in mind: color. And lots of it, to reflect the mania that is Season 3 narrator and the newly-formed rockstar version of Lestat de Lioncourt, played by Sam Reid.  Straying away from the red and black typically associated with vampires, Wood, who joined the Anne Rice adaptation’s costume department at the end of Season 2,…

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The suspended Deputy Dean of Student Affairs at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Dr Banji Olaleye, has claimed his suspension over alleged extortion was orchestrated long before the investigation, alleging that the university’s current administration had been seeking his removal since February. The school’s spokesperson, Dr Sunday Saanu, said on Sunday that “those claims are false.” The university management had announced the suspension of Olaleye alongside the Director of the Directorate of Educational Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Olanrewaju Ogunjobi, and the Students’ Union Government President, James Adio. The university said a petitioner accused the trio and others of extorting students through…

When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu as the 25th Chief of Army Staff on October 30, 2025, it was a well-deserved appointment. A seasoned officer with an operational record spanning counter-insurgency campaigns against Boko Haram and ISWAP, including deployments in the Lake Chad region and Sambisa Forest, he also holds several decorations, including the Purple Heart Medal for gallantry. So upon assumption of office, he set out a clear command philosophy: to transform the Nigerian Army into a more professional, adaptable, combat-ready and resilient force capable of decisively discharging its constitutional responsibilities within a joint and…

The African geoeconomic landscape is undergoing a period of profound structural transformation, characterised by intensifying great-power competition, shifting geopolitical alignments, and the increasing fusion of economic statecraft with national security. This new era presents both significant challenges and unprecedented opportunities for the African continent. Thus, the increasingly sophisticated intellectual and policy landscape requires a thorough understanding of how to navigate the inextricably linked economics and geopolitics, and to pursue proactive nation-building grounded in robust data and evidence-based strategies. As Africa faces a simultaneous contraction in global humanitarian aid, rising exposure to conflict, growing debt distress, and the World Bank’s Africa’s…