UKRAINE’S ZELENSKYY ANNOUNCES US WEAPONS SHIPMENTS HAVE RESUMED

Sat 12 July 2025: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced Friday that the US resumed military aid shipments to Ukraine. “We have received political signals at the highest level – good signals – including from the United States and from our European friends. According to all reports, aid shipments have been restored,” he said on Telegram. Ukrainian […]

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AMBER HEAT HEALTH ALERT ISSUED ACROSS SOUTHERN UK AMID RISK OF INCREASED DEATHS

Sat 12 July 2025: UK authorities on Friday issued an amber heat health alert for large parts of England, warning that the ongoing heatwave could lead to increased deaths. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) raised the alert level from yellow to amber for several regions, including London, the East and West Midlands, East of […]

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FUEL SWITCHES CUT OFF BEFORE AIR INDIA PLANE CRASH: PRELIMINARY REPORT

Sat 12 July 2025: A preliminary report into an Air India plane that crashed in western Gujarat state last month, killing 260 people, said Saturday that the aircraft’s engine fuel control switches transitioned to the “cut-off” position, moments before the disaster. The UK-bound plane slammed into a hostel of a local medical college, with one […]

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POPE CALLS FOR GLOBAL AI GOVERNANCE TO UPHOLD HUMAN DIGNITY, FOSTER DIALOGUE

Sat 12 July 2025: Pope Leo XIV has called on the international community to establish coordinated frameworks and ethical governance for artificial intelligence, urging that the technology be used in the service of humanity and peace. In a message delivered Thursday by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to the UN’s AI for Good Summit […]

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SOUTHEAST ASIAN BLOC REITERATES SUPPORT FOR VOLUNTARY RETURN OF DISPLACED ROHINGYA TO MYANMAR

Sat 12 July 2025: More than a million ethnic Rohingya, who are mostly Muslims, have fled Myanmar over past decade due to oppression ISTANBUL Top diplomats of Southeast Asian nations Friday reiterated “continued support” to security for all communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state “as effectively as possible and facilitating the voluntary return” of the displaced […]

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GAZA’S POPULATION DROPS BY 10% AMID ISRAEL’S GENOCIDAL WAR

Sat 12 July 2025: Gaza‘s population has dropped by 10% as Israel continued its destructive war on the Palestinian enclave, official figures showed on Thursday. “Palestine, specifically the Gaza Strip, is suffering an unprecedented humanitarian and demographic catastrophe due to the ongoing Israeli aggression since October 2023,” the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said in a statement. The bureau said […]

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NIGERIA REJECTS US ‘PRESSURE’ TO ACCEPT VENEZUELAN DEPORTEES

Sat 12 July 2025: Nigeria’s foreign minister said the United States was pressuring African countries to accept Venezuelan deportees, some straight out of prison, but Africa’s most populous country could not accommodate them due to its own problems. President Donald Trump’s administration this week asked five African presidents visiting the White House to take in […]

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NIGERIAN, ZIMBABWEAN NATIONALS AMONG FOREIGNERS ARRESTED IN PAKISTAN SCAM CENTRE RAID

Fri 11 July 2025: Pakistan police arrested 149 people – including Nigerian and Zimbabwean nationals – in a raid on a scam call centre, the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) said Thursday. Later, a court in Faisalabad handed over 69 of the suspects to the NCCIA on five-day physical remand, while 62 were sent […]

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ISTANBUL’S AYASOFYA GRAND MOSQUE MARKS FIFTH ANNIVERSARY

Fri 11 July 2025: The historical Ayasofya [Hagia Sophia] Grand Mosque celebrates its fifth anniversary after the landmark decision to change its status from a museum to a mosque in July 2020. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the anniversary with a message shared on X on Thursday. “Five years ago today, we broke its chains and […]

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