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BBC PULLS STAFF AFTER AIRING BOB VYLAN’S GLASTONBURY PERFORMANCE

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Fri 04 July 2025: The BBC has removed several senior staff from their duties after airing a controversial live performance at the Glastonbury music festival by rap-punk duo Bob Vylan, who condemned Israel’s military and denounced genocidal violence against Palestinians. During their live-streamed set, the band’s vocalist led a chant of “Death, death to the IDF” and made remarks criticizing Israel’s “violent military […]

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DISTRESSED BY ALL THE BAD NEWS? HERE’S HOW TO STAY INFORMED BUT STILL LOOK AFTER YOURSELF

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Fri 04 July 2025: If you’re feeling like the news is particularly bad at the moment, you’re not alone. But many of us can’t look away – and don’t want to. Engaging with news can help us make sense of what’s going on and, for many of us, is an ethical stance. So, how can you also […]

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ETHIOPIA’S PM ABIY AHMED SAYS MEGA DAM GERD ON THE NILE ‘NOW COMPLETE’

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Fri 04 July 2025: Sudan and Egypt are concerned about its effect on their water supply, but Abiy says the dam will benefit them all. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said a multibillion-dollar mega dam on the Blue Nile, which has caused deep consternation to downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan over its effect on […]

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RUSSIA ‘WILL NOT BACK DOWN’ ON UKRAINE WAR GOALS, PUTIN TELLS TRUMP

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Fri 04 July 2025: Russian president says future talks need to be between Kyiv and Moscow amid signs latter does not want US involvement. Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his United States counterpart, Donald Trump, that Moscow will not give up on its goal of eliminating the “root causes” of the war in Ukraine. […]

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LAWMAKERS: FRANCE SHOULD REGULATE PRIVATE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

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Fri 04 July 2025: France must better regulate private schools and allow prosecutions for abuse of pupils whenever it was committed, two lawmakers said in a report published on Wednesday after allegations of decades of abuse at a Catholic school. The parliamentary investigation into French schools was triggered by dozens of complaints of physical and […]

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AI LEARNING TO LIE, SCHEME, AND THREATEN ITS CREATORS

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Fri 04 July 2025: The world’s most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors – lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals. In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair. […]

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CHINESE SPACECRAFT TAKES PICTURES OF MOON, EARTH FROM 336,509 MILES AWAY

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 Images of Earth and the moon captured by the Tianwen 2 robotic probe are released on July 1, 2025 by the China National Space Administration. The pictures were taken by the probe’s narrow-field-of-view navigation sensor when it was about 590,000 kilometers from Earth. (CHINA NATIONAL SPACE ADMINISTRATION / XINHUA) Fri 04 July 2025: China’s Tianwen […]

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ISRAEL HAS ABDUCTED AND JAILED 1,000,000 PALESTINIANS SINCE 1967 — US GROUP’S REPORT

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Fri 04 July 2025: On February 24, Israeli occupation troops abducted Fidaa Assaf from the village of Kafr Laqif in Palestine’s Qalqilya governorate. She was returning from Ramallah Medical Complex after undergoing medical examinations. Palestinian officials later revealed that the female prisoner, who is married and a mother, was subjected to multiple strip searches and verbal […]

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ESKOM STRENGTHENS SYSTEM AGAINST FRAUDULENT TOKENS GENERATION

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Fri 04 July 2025: State power utility Eskom says it has taken several steps to strengthen its systems against potential threats related to the generation of fraudulent prepaid tokens. In December 2024, the power utility disclosed, as part of its full-year 2024 financial results, a forensic report detailing the breach of its Online Vending System […]

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RUSSIA RECOGNIZES TALIBAN GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN

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Thu 03 July 2025: Russia has officially recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan, Russian President’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov told the RIA Novosti news agency on Thursday. Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry also confirmed the development, saying Russian Ambassador Dmitry Zhirnov met Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and conveyed the government’s decision that underscores […]

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