Sun 27 July 2025: Several thousand people demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday in favour of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of the remaining hostages held by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. At the rally, Or Levy, who himself was held hostage in the Gaza Strip for 491 days, appealed to […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: Police in South Africa are pursuing new leads in the case of a missing girl, Joshlin Smith, whose mother was sentenced to life in prison in May for kidnapping and trafficking the six-year-old girl. Search and rescue teams on Friday combed through an informal settlement in Saldanha Bay as part of […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: Senegal officials have imposed a nighttime ban on motorcycles in an eastern region after terrorists used motorbikes in recent attacks in towns just over the border in Mali. A decree published this week said the prohibition was for “security reasons”, after attackers targeted army positions in several Malian towns on July […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: The Thai Navy dispatched four vessels Saturday near its border to support land forces as a Thailand–Cambodia conflict entered a third day, according to the Khaosod English news website. The Royal Thai Navy launched the “Trat Pikhat Pairee 1” (Trat Strike 1) operation against Cambodian forces on three points along the border, after […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower in return for opaque assurances of security. The peace deal, signed in June 2025, aims to end three decades of […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: A 61-year-old Austrian man is suspected of fraudulently obtaining €300,000 ($351,000) in social benefits over several years, police said on Friday. The man allegedly exploited a disability assistance scheme since 2018 that is intended to allow people with severe physical impairments to live at home instead of in a care facility. […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: New research has shown that brain ageing grew faster during the COVID-19 pandemic even for people who did not catch the virus. The research by British scientists showed that lockdowns, fear, and isolation endured during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic could have lasting impacts on people’s cognitive function. Researchers examined brain scans from nearly 1,000 healthy […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: More than 3,800 NASA employees — over 20% of the agency’s civil servant workforce — have applied to resign under a federal buyout program, as the space agency faces major budget cuts and leadership uncertainty, according to US media reports on Friday. The deferred resignation program, part of a Trump administration […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: The Trump administration is planning to tighten rules for legal immigration, including making the US citizenship test harder and changing the H-1B visa system to favor high-wage employers, according to the director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services. “The test, as it’s laid out right now, is not very difficult,” USCIS […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: More than 100,000 children in the Gaza Strip, including 40,000 infants aged under 1, are facing imminent death due to the complete lack of baby formula and nutritional supplements, the Government Media Office in Gaza warned on Saturday. In a statement, the office described the situation as an unfolding “massacre in […]
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