Sat 18 April 2026: Plans to launch reflective satellites and up to 1 million additional spacecraft in low Earth orbit could disrupt human sleep, wildlife, and ecosystems, scientists have warned. “The proposed scale of orbital deployment would represent a significant alteration of the natural night-time light environment at a planetary scale,” said the presidents of […]
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Sat 18 April 2026: Poland experienced a record number of cyberattacks in 2025, with incidents rising by more than 140% year-on-year, the country’s digital affairs minister said Thursday. Poland recorded 682,000 reports of cyber incidents last year, according to a cybersecurity report published by the Ministry of Digital Affairs. “2025 was a record year in […]
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Sat 18 April 2026: The UN refugee agency has warned of an ‘unmarked graveyard for thousands of desperate Rohingya refugees’ in South Asia The United Nations refugee agency has revealed that nearly 900 Rohingya refugees were reported dead or missing in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea in 2025. This was the deadliest […]
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Sat 18 April 2026: Leo is the third pontiff to visit the fossil fuel-rich country after John Paul II in 1992 and Benedict XVI in 2009. Pope Leo XIV is set to arrive in Angola on the third leg of a landmark African tour that has unfolded alongside an escalating war of words with United States […]
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Sat 18 April 2026: The Israeli military says it established a “yellow line” demarcation in southern Lebanon, similar to the one separating its forces from territory still held by Hamas in Gaza It claimed it has already struck suspected Hezbollah fighters approaching its troops along the line. “Over the past 24 hours, [army] forces operating […]
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Sat 18 April 2026: Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect. Whether in a quick text message, a long email, a casual chat with a friend, or a comment online, the words […]
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Sat 18 April 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Presidential spokesperson responds to fresh Trump SA white genocide claims: Although Trump did not explicitly say that only white farmers were approved through the program, his comments alluded to it when speaking of a white “genocide” in the country. “We stopped third-world […]
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Fri 17 April 2026: Amnesty International calls Traore government’s move a ‘flagrant attack’ on basic rights. Burkina Faso’s military government has ordered the dissolution of more than 100 associations and civil society groups – which rights groups are calling an “attack” on basic rights. It is the latest crackdown in the West African country, months […]
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Fri 17 April 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ What now for Malema and EFF? Parliamentary rules state any custodial sentence without the option of a fine in excess of 12 months means an MP loses their seat for a period of five years after the sentence is served. But Malema’s […]
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Fri 17 April 2026: Five widely used AI chatbots frequently produced problematic answers to health and medical questions, a new study revealed. Researchers in a study published in the BMJ Open on Tuesday tested Gemini, DeepSeek, Meta AI, ChatGPT and Grok with 50 prompts across five misinformation-prone categories. These included cancer, vaccines, stem cells, nutrition […]
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