Tue 22 July 2025: The Pestalozzi Trust has launched a constitutional court challenge against the BELA Act, arguing Parliament failed to ensure meaningful public participation, creating a flawed and potentially unconstitutional law. South Africa’s controversial Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act is facing a significant legal challenge that could send it back to Parliament. The Pestalozzi Trust, […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: Sudan’s Telecommunications and Post Regulatory Authority (TPRA) has announced a “precautionary restriction” on WhatsApp voice and video calling services across the country beginning on Friday, July 25, 2025. In a statement, TTRA says the measure is being implemented to counter potential security threats and safeguard national security and the country’s paramount […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: The kettle is a household staple practically everywhere – how else would we make our hot drinks? But is it okay to re-boil water that’s already in the kettle from last time? While bringing water to a boil disinfects it, you may have heard that boiling water more than once will somehow make […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: The release of hundreds of thousands of pages related to civil rights leader comes despite his family’s opposition. The administration of United States President Donald Trump has released more than 230,000 pages of files relating to the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In a statement issued […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how people search online, offering instant answers while siphoning away valuable traffic from leading websites, according to data from SimilarWeb and other sources. AI-driven search results from Google, ChatGPT, and Perplexity now allow users to access information at a glance, reducing the need to click through […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: One-third of Gaza’s population has not eaten for several days due to the ongoing Israeli blockade on the Palestinian enclave, the World Food Program (WFP) said. “The hunger crisis in Gaza has reached new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: After spending nearly two decades behind bars, the Bombay High Court on Monday acquitted all 12 Muslim men accused of orchestrating the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts that killed 189 people and injured over 800, observing that “the prosecution utterly failed in establishing the case beyond reasonable doubts.” A special bench of […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: Trump Media and Technology Group Corp., the operator of Truth Social, Truth+, and Truth.Fi, announced Monday that it has amassed approximately $2 billion in Bitcoin and Bitcoin-related securities as part of its bitcoin treasury strategy. The company’s bitcoin holdings now account for roughly two-thirds of its $3 billion in liquid assets, […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: Israel’s genocide in Gaza has left soldiers serving in the occupation army “afraid” to return “home”, fearing prosecution for war crimes committed during the ongoing assault which has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. In Canada, where several citizens have served in the Israel Defence Forces […]
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Tue 22 July 2025: Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has warned neighbour Ethiopia against launching a new war between the two countries, with tensions high in the Horn of Africa region. Eritrea and Ethiopia have had fraught relations since the former declared independence in 1993, with tens of thousands of people killed in a war between the two […]
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