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French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he is awaiting thanks from Sahel states in Africa for stopping Islamists. Macron was speaking to French ambassadors at the annual conference on foreign policy for 2025. Macron has said that France was right to intervene in 2013 to fight Islamist militants. In a reference to Sahel nations, Macron has said that none of them would have been sovereign nations had it not been for the French army. Macron has said that France has decided to reorganize its strategy and has dismissed the conception that it was kicked out of the Sahel region. However, contrary to Macron's claims, there were prior suggestions that the French nation's military presence was not welcome in the Sahel region. Ousmane Sonko, the Prime Minister of Senegal, had criticized the French military presence in his country in May 2024. There was growing dissatisfaction with the French presence in other Sahel countries as well. Also Read: Unexplained Object falls from Sky in...

A mysterious red and hot metallic ring fell from space in a remote village of Kenya on 30th December. The object has been identified as space debris by the Kenyan Space Agency. The agency stated that the object is a metallic ring with a diameter of 2.5 meters and a weight of 500 kg. Preliminary assessments have indicated that the object is a separation ring from a rocket vehicle. The agency emphasized that while there is a lot of debris in space, most of it burns up in the atmosphere, and such incidents are rare. Space observer Jonathan McDowell has said that it is totally impossible for the debris to have come from a rocket booster. McDowell has stated that he is not convinced it’s from space, suggesting instead that it may have come from an airplane. He added that he does not see obvious evidence of reentry heating. All the space junk in orbit is a result of human activities, such as launching rockets and satellites. It often remains in orbit until it reaches the atmosphere, where it...

When Pakistan’s General Zia-ul-Haq met Afghan President Nur Mohammed Taraki in 1978, Taraki was introduced to Zia as a comrade. Taraki reportedly told Zia about the exploitation of the Afghan population at the hands of the royal family for 200 years and how the revolution had given land to nearly 11 million people. Zia gainsaid Taraki by saying that all land belongs to God. Taraki retorted by pointing out that the land belongs to the tiller.  Also Read : 10 Countries where YouTube is banned Also Read: ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu When Zia told Taraki that one should be fearful of God and should recognize his obligations towards God, Taraki responded by calling God just and stating that one should not fear a just God. Albeit this conversation might feel insignificant, it elucidates the ideological differences between an Islamist Zia and a Communist Taraki very well. Pakistan had recognized the new regime and maintained diplomatic relations ...

One of the most successful YouTubers of all time, MrBeast, otherwise known as Jimmy Donaldson, has gotten engaged to Thea Booysen. As per news reports, they met when MrBeast visited South Africa. Thea Booysen, who hails from Cape Town, South Africa, has a degree in neuropsychology from the University of Edinburgh. She is a content creator and author with a significant fan following. She began her career by streaming card-based video games on YouTube and Netflix. Her YouTube handle, TheaBeasty, has nearly 40,000 subscribers. Thea is also the co-owner of a South Africa-based e-sports organization, Nixuh. In the year 2022, she released her novel Marked Children . MrBeast rose to fame in 2017 when his YouTube video counting to 100,000 went viral. Since then, his success spree has continued, with MrBeast often performing adventurous tasks and donating large amounts of money to people. He was the highest-paid content creator of 2022. Beast had told TIME in 2024 that he does not have any acc...

YouTube  is a video sharing  platform that  was founded on February 14, 2005, by former PayPal employees Steve Chan, Jawed Karim and Chad Hurley.  YouTube has more than 2.7 billion users and over one billion hours of video content is watched every day on YouTube. However, this popular website is banned in several countries around the globe. Read to find out:- 1. China YouTube has been inaccessible from mainland China since  March 24, 2009.Despite the fact that YouTube is banned in China several Chinese media institutions like CGTN have YouTube accounts. Due to the ban many Chinese users resort to using VPN to access YouTube in China. As per Alexa YouTube is the 5th most searched website in China. 2. North Korea Julien Pain of the Reporters without borders  once described North Korea as the world's worst Internet black hole. Internet is inaccessible in North Korea and only some high ranking officials can access the Internet. However, foreigners are allowed t...