Mon 08 December 2025: South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has cancelled the 90-day visa exemption previously granted to Palestinian passport holders, saying the decision aims to stop attempts to move residents of Gaza out of the territory under what has been described as “voluntary relocation”. In a statement issued on Sunday, the ministry said […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: Kuwait has revoked the citizenship of 24 individuals, including the prominent Islamic preacher Tariq al-Suwaidan, according to a decree published in the Kuwait Today official gazette. Decree No. 227 of 2025 states that citizenship has been withdrawn from “Tariq Muhammad Saleh al-Suwaidan, and those who acquired it through him by dependency.” The order […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: Google and Apple have issued a new round of cybersecurity warnings to users in more than 150 countries, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, after detecting attempts to hack phones using advanced spyware linked to the Israeli company Intellexa, according to media reports. The companies said the alerts are part of efforts […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group in Sudan, have announced that they have taken control of the strategically important Heglig oilfield located in South Kordofan province.According to multiple reports, including from Reuters and Al Jazeera on December 8, 2025, the RSF claimed the seizure, with sources confirming that Sudanese […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Mon 08 December 2025: On Monday, France initiated the repatriation of a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton to Mongolia, almost ten years after the fossil was illegally excavated from the Gobi Desert and subsequently seized by French customs authorities. The specimen, a rare Tarbosaurus baatar—the Asian cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex—was confiscated in […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: US President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has ended eight wars using trade measures and tariffs as leverage. “I’ve ended eight wars, largely because of trade and because of tariffs,” he told reporters as he arrived at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He defended his tariff approach as superior for national security purposes. […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Sold for R14 million? The shocking claims behind SA’s Russia–Ukraine recruit scandal: “When they got to Russia, they found themselves being contracts written in Russian,” Mahlangu told the SABC. “They couldn’t understand what the contracts entailed until some South Africans, including Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: The UK and Qatar have jointly announced $11.2 million in funding to support more than 647,000 Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh’s southeastern Cox’s Bazar district. The joint funding will support the provision of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to vulnerable refugee households, aiming to improve living conditions and reduce environmental degradation in and around the camps, according to […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: Sympathy for Israel over Palestine among US voters has plummeted to a record low, according to a recent survey by Big Data Poll (BDP). The pollster interviewed 2,005 registered voters; 29.1% said they side with Israel, while 21.4% expressed support for the Palestinians. Nearly 30% said they sympathize with neither side […]
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Mon 08 December 2025: In public discourse, we spend a great deal of collective energy debating the accuracy of facts. We fact-check politicians, monitor social media for misinformation, and prioritise data-driven decision-making in our workplaces. This focus is vital; the distinction between truth and falsehood is the bedrock of a functioning society. However, by focusing […]
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