THOUSANDS FLEE NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE IN 1 WEEK AS VIOLENCE SURGES, SAYS UN REFUGEE AGENCY

Tue 07 October 2025: The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, expressed deep concern on Tuesday over the intensifying conflict in northern Mozambique, where nearly 22,000 people were forced to flee their homes in late September due to a fresh wave of violence. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, UNHCR’s Mozambique representative, Xavier Creach, described the surge as […]

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HOW SAFE IS YOUR FACE? THE PROS AND CONS OF HAVING FACIAL RECOGNITION EVERYWHERE

Tue 07 October 2025: Walk into a shop, board a plane, log into your bank, or scroll through your social media feed, and chances are you might be asked to scan your face. Facial recognition and other kinds of face-based biometric technology are becoming an increasingly common form of identification. The technology is promoted as […]

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ONE CHILD (IS) EITHER KILLED OR MAIMED EVERY 17 MINUTES IN GAZA, SAYS UNICEF

Tue 07 October 2025: UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, on Tuesday decried the grave price paid by innocent children in Gaza, calling on Israel to declare an immediate ceasefire to end what it called an “unprecedented” violence in the besieged enclave. “For nearly two years now, children have paid the heaviest price in this […]

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WORLD BANK RAISES CHINESE GROWTH FORECAST TO 4.8% FOR 2025 DESPITE US TRADE DISPUTE

Tue 07 October 2025: The World Bank raised its economic growth forecast for China on Tuesday to 4.8% for 2025 in spite of months of trade disruptions between the world’s top two economies. The new gross domestic product (GDP) growth projection is 0.8 percentage points higher than the World Bank’s April forecast, and it is […]

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FRENCH PROSECUTORS PROBE APPLE’S SIRI FOLLOWING COMPLAINT

Tue 07 October 2025: French prosecutors said on Monday they are investigating tech giant Apple‘s voice assistant Siri after receiving a complaint from a tech researcher accusing the company of illicit data collection. The probe, which was first reported by the news website Politico, has been entrusted to a police force specialised in cybercrime, the prosecutors’ office in Paris said […]

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‘EUROPEANS FEEL THE DANGER OF WAR ON THEIR OWN SKIN’ SAYS RUSSIA’S MEDVEDEV AMID DRONE DISRUPTION

Tue 07 October 2025: On Monday, Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian President, commented that the source of recent drone disruptions across Europe is still unknown, yet he suggested that these events act as a stark warning to Europeans about the perils of conflict. Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, played down the theory […]

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TWO YEARS OF GENOCIDE: WHY GAZA’S RESISTANCE WILL NEVER SURRENDER

Tue 07 October 2025: Since the outbreak of the genocidal war on Gaza nearly two years ago, the world has been confronted with an extraordinary reality: a besieged people whose homes are levelled, whose hospitals are bombed and whose families are torn apart, yet who rise from beneath the rubble — sometimes barefoot, often with […]

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HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY | TUESDAY – 07 OCTOBER 2025

Tue 07 October 2025:   Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Mkhwanazi to stand before parliamentary committee: Mkhwanazi’s allegations have implicated several high-profile figures. He accused Police Minister Senzo Mchunu of interference. He also claimed the late former minister Nathi Mthethwa tried to stop Richard Mdluli’s prosecution. These serious claims form the basis of […]

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VENEZUELA’S MADURO CLAIMS US EMBASSY “FALSE FLAG” PLOT THWARTED AMID MILITARY BUILD-UP

Tue 07 October 2025:  President Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday that Venezuelan security forces thwarted a “false flag operation” aimed at planting explosives at the US Embassy in Caracas. In a televised interview, Maduro alleged the plot was orchestrated by “extremist sectors of the local Venezuelan right” to escalate tensions with Washington, coinciding with a […]

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