BeachLife Festival returns for its sixth year, taking over the stunning Redondo Beach waterfront from May 2nd to the 4th, 2025. As southern California’s premier live music, art, and culinary event, BeachLife 2025 is a musical fest that promises an unforgettable experience, with an eclectic lineup of legendary artists, local emerging talent, and immersive cultural highlights that encapsulate the essence of the quintessential SoCal lifestyle. This year, BeachLife will make history with Sublime and Long Beach Dub Allstars sharing the stage — for the first time ever! These two exemplary LBC bands join an extraordinary headlining roster, featuring Lenny Kravitz,…
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LAGOS, Nigeria, 7th January /African Media Agency (AMA)/- The global spotlight will turn to Africa on May 22-23, 2025, as the RegTech Africa Conference and Awards convenes at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria, to explore the transformative power of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in reshaping the continent’s economic future. Under the theme “Unlocking Africa’s Cross-Border Payments, Trade, and Investment Opportunities through Public-Private Partnerships,” this year’s event promises to ignite actionable dialogue, foster groundbreaking partnerships, and showcase cutting-edge solutions for Africa’s growth. Organized by RegTech Africa, the premium event will convene over 1,000 global participants, including high-level policymakers, government leaders, global innovators, trade experts, investors, and industry leaders, to forge actionable solutions and build strategic partnerships. A…
Tottenham Hotspur have announced the contract extension of its captain, Son Heung-Min, until the summer of 2026 which is the end of the 2025/26 season.The club confirmed the news on its official website on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. Tottenham decided to trigger the contract extension following his dedication and impressive performance to the club since the beginning of this season.The South Korean joined the London club from Bayer Leverkusen in 2015 for £22m and has made 431 appearances for Spurs, putting him 11th on the club’s all-time list. He has scored 169 goals. Only Harry Kane, Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Smith,…
Night fell as the two scientists got to work, unfurling long nets off the end of their boat. The jungle struck up its evening symphony: the sweet chittering of insects, the distant bellowing of monkeys, the occasional screech of a kite. Crocodiles lounged in the shallows, their eyes glinting when headlamps were shined their way.Across the water, cargo ships made dark shapes as they slid between the seas.The Panama Canal has for more than a century connected far-flung peoples and economies, making it an essential artery for global trade — and, in recent weeks, a target of President-elect Donald J.…
This year’s NFL awards races are some of the most competitive in recent years.Several outstanding candidates are worthy of consideration for each award, including Most Valuable Player, Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, Offensive and Defensive Rookies of the Year and Coach of the Year.Below are our picks for this year’s awards, plus an honorable mention in each category.MVPBills quarterback Josh Allen The Bills needed Allen to be better than in 2024, and he delivered. After trading wide receiver Stefon Diggs to the Texans and watching Gabe Davis leave in free agency, Buffalo’s season could have gone off the…
United States President-elect Donald Trump has hinted at possible military intervention in the Americas and the Middle East, as well as other items on his foreign policy agenda, during a wide-ranging news conference in Florida. Trump spoke from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Tuesday, a day after Congress officially certified his victory in November’s general elections. The news conference also comes just 13 days before Trump is set to the oath of office for his second term on January 20. The president-elect touched on several domestic subjects, pledging to roll back environmental restrictions and pardon supporters who stormed the US Capitol…
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security. Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan. 20 and as a delegation of aides and advisers that includes Donald Trump Jr. is in Greenland, Trump left open the use of the American military to secure both territories. Trump’s intention marks a rejection of decades of U.S. policy that has prioritized self-determination over territorial expansion. “I’m…
Responding to two separate extradition requests issued by authorities in Egypt and the United Emirates (UAE) for Abdul Rahman Al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-Turkish poet, who was arbitrarily detained by Lebanese security forces upon his return from a visit to Syria on 28 December, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Sara Hashash said: “The Lebanese authorities must urgently reject the requests for the extradition of Abdul Rahman Al-Qaradawi made by the Egyptian and UAE authorities. “Abdul Rahman Al-Qaradawi’s arbitrary detention came after he made comments critical of the Emirati, Saudi Arabian and Egyptian authorities and the requests…
Shaybilly has started the new year on a high. With the new single, “4 Meter”, released Saturday, 4 January 2025, he’s on a mission to become an Afrobeats rockstar. Coming out all guns blazing with the sonically compelling two-minute, fifty-two-second Amapiano single that will get everyone dancing all night reveals his plan to lay down a marker as one of Afrobeats top dogs to look out for this year.Produced by Vikwynbeat and published by Byvance, Shaybilly was spot-on lyrically. “I was done compiling songs for my forthcoming album, but when Vikwynbeat previews the beat to this song, it is irresistible.…
Ireland has formally joined South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, according to a statement on Tuesday from the International Court of Justice.The filing, made on Monday, comes months after Ireland announced plans to intervene in the case before the United Nations’ highest judicial body.“Ireland, invoking Article 63 of the Statute of the Court, filed in the Registry of the Court a declaration of intervention in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip,” the court said in a statement on Tuesday.South Africa brought its case to the…