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new video loaded: Countries Stop Accepting Small Shipments Bound for the U.S.By Jiawei Wang•August 29, 2025Some post offices around the world are not accepting small parcels to the U.S. as the “de minimis” exemption ended on Friday. The loophole once allowed packages valued at less than $800 to enter the country tariff-free.Recent episodes in BusinessShow more videos from Business

It is a weekday morning and I am standing beside Pierce Brosnan on a deserted backstreet, watching a woman in a hairnet and white wellies hosing down the entrance to a fishmarket. The former James Bond is in full flow. “You know the scene in MobLand where I’ve got my foot on that guy’s throat and Tom Hardy is shooting the shit out of everyone?” He is talking in his rich, buttery burr about the recent series in which he and Helen Mirren play the heads of an Irish crime family. “We shot that right here!” He waves at the…

Thailand's Constitutional Court has removed the country's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office.

273 Telecommunications giant, Econet Telecom Lesotho (ETL), has staged its third Econet Expo, unveiling innovative digital solutions aimed at driving national development and improving everyday life for Basotho citizens. The expo, which opened on at Maseru Mall, is Lesotho’s biggest digital festival and will run until tomorrow under the theme “Digital First: Shaping Lesotho’s Tomorrow.” The event reaffirms Econet’s ambition to position itself not just as a telecom operator but as the leading enabler of digital transformation in Lesotho. Speaking at the official launch, ETL General Manager for Sales and Services, Mr. Lebohang Ramaisa, said this year’s expo features a…

Michelle RobertsDigital health editor, BBC News andAoife WalshBBC NewsGetty ImagesChickenpox can start with flu-like symptoms, such as a high temperature and headache.All young children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be offered a free chickenpox vaccine by the NHS from January next year.It will be given as two doses, at 12 and 18 months of age, combined with the existing MMR jab which protects against measles, mumps and rubella.A catch up campaign is planned for slightly older children so they don’t miss out. Until now, parents who wanted to protect their child against the chickenpox varicella virus, which causes…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureIt will be a huge opportunity for Anderson to impress in the senior set up. What are your thoughts? Any one else you want to see Tuchel name in his squad? Let me know your thoughts via email, which you can find at the top of this blog.We will be bringing you the full squad as it is announced live at midday.ShareDavid HytnerThomas Tuchel’s priority will be to fine-tune his existing options in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Serbia. But he wants a look at Anderson.ShareAnderson…

There are two types of horror – one that shocks you into more inventive ways to hide behind a pillow; and the other that creeps under your skin, quietly prickling the back of your neck and haunting you for weeks. The Séance Of Blake Manor falls into that second camp: an atmospheric take on an 1890s Irish murder mystery.You play Detective Ward, who has been sent to the titular Blake Manor to investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane two nights before a seance is due take place. Mystics from across the globe have gathered at the crumbling mansion to converse…

Washington — Surveillance of Otsieno Namwaya Amid Ongoing Civil Society Attacks The Kenyan police should end its apparent harassment of Otsieno Namwaya, associate Africa director at Human Rights Watch, over his work documenting serious rights abuses in Kenya, Human Rights Watch said today. Between August 23 and 25, 2025, security officials conducted surveillance at Namwaya’s house. The incidents followed weeks of attempts by individuals believed to be from the Operation Support Unit, which is based within the Directorate of Criminal Investigations of the National Police Service, to clandestinely get access to Namwaya. “The surveillance of a Human Rights Watch staff…

The National Elections Commission faces the possible freezing of its bank and mobile money accounts after M-Tosh Prints Media petitioned the Commercial Court, charging Chairperson Davidetta Browne-Lansanah with ignoring a $171,000 debt ruling. The Consortium of Legal Practitioners, headed by Cllr. Arthur T. Johnson, filed the request on the grounds that NEC Chairperson Davidetta Browne-Lansanah has failed to honor commitments to settle a debt of slightly more than $171,000 owed to M-Tosh, a Liberian-owned company. “I respectfully write to bring to the attention of the Honourable Court the continued and willful failure of the National Elections Commission (NEC), headed by…

By Amy Sherman | PolitifactPublished On 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025Senator Chris Murphy, a leading supporter of stricter gun laws, said hours after an August 27 deadly Minneapolis school shooting that legislation enacted during the Biden administration led to a decline in mass shootings.“There is something deeply wrong with a country that chooses to make running for their lives part of kids’ back to school ritual,” Murphy wrote on X. “When we finally passed a gun safety bill in 2022, mass shooting began to drop. But it was an unacceptably small start. We must do more.”Murphy referred to the Bipartisan Safer Communities…