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Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya Named First Global Ambassador for WR Chess

Nigerian chess champion Tunde Onakoya Named First Global Ambassador for WR Chess

Nigerian chess in the slum convener and champion Tunde Onakoya, has been appointed the first Global Ambassador for WR Chess by CEO Wadim Rosenstein. The duo bonded over shared humble beginnings during talks in Paris and a match mid-flight to Prague’s International Chess Festival, where Onakoya sold Rosenstein a custom Nigerian Adire chessboard for 10,000...

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Viola Davis Receives Prestigious Chairman’s Prize At NAACP Image Awards

Viola Davis Receives Prestigious Chairman’s Prize At NAACP Image Awards

Viola Davis delivered a powerful speech about self-worth, resilience and collective progress on the 57th NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night, telling the audience that personal and national growth require confronting truth and hardship. “There is no becoming without healing and without a radical acceptance of one’s truth,” Davis said after receiving the NAACP’s Chairman’s...

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US And Israel Pound Iran As Trump Signals Willingness To Talk To New Leaders After Khamenei’s Death

US And Israel Pound Iran As Trump Signals Willingness To Talk To New Leaders After Khamenei’s Death

The U.S. and Israel pounded targets across Iran on Sunday, dropping massive bombs on its ballistic missile sites and wiping out warships as part of an intensifying military campaign following the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Blasts rattled windows across the country and sent plumes of smoke high into the sky above Tehran....

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Mexican Authorities Hand Over Body Of ‘El Mencho’ To His Family

Mexican Authorities Hand Over Body Of ‘El Mencho’ To His Family

Mexican authorities returned the body of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” to his family after he was killed by the Mexican army last week, officials said on Saturday. In a brief note on X, the Attorney General’s Office said that it handed over the body of El Mencho after completing all the necessary...