Wed 16 July 2025: Scientists have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, following a collision between two giant black holes over 10 billion light-years from Earth, researchers announced Monday. Each black hole was more than 100 times the mass of the sun and spiraled into one another before merging into a new […]
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Wed 16 July 2025: Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, has reaffirmed her commitment to strengthening and enhancing the campaign against bogus colleges ahead of the 2026 academic year application season. Gondwe led a two-day intergovernmental awareness campaign in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, in East London, Eastern Cape, on Monday and […]
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Wed 16 July 2025: The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment is taking decisive action to phase out harmful captive lion breeding practices and reinforcing animal well-being through updated regulations, as part of ongoing efforts to protect South Africa’s wildlife. The department has announced significant progress toward the publication of a Prohibition Notice that […]
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Tue 15 July 2025: Pakistan said on Monday it was creating a national paramilitary force, prompting concern among opposition parties and human rights groups that it could be used as a tool of political repression. The move turns an existing paramilitary force deployed on Pakistan’s northwestern border with Afghanistan into a national security force that will […]
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Tue 15 July 2025: The WHO chief on Monday called on world leaders to prioritize HIV prevention and embrace meaningful partnerships in an effort to achieve the goal of ending AIDS. Addressing the International AIDS Society conference on HIV Science in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said governments, scientists, civil society and […]
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Tue 15 July 2025: The spiritual leadership of the Druze community in Syria on Tuesday morning urged all armed factions in Suwayda province to cooperate fully with government security forces and surrender their weapons. On Monday, more than 30 people were killed and nearly 100 others injured in clashes between armed Bedouin tribal fighters and […]
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Tue 15 July 2025: Some US House Democrats urged the Trump administration Monday to release all files associated with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “The American people deserve to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as it relates to this whole sordid Jeffrey Epstein matter,” House […]
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Tue 15 July 2025: Team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts begins excavating to identify the remains of about 800 children. Excavation has begun in Ireland at an unmarked mass burial site to identify the remains of about 800 infants and toddlers who died at a church-run home for unmarried mothers. The digging of […]
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Tue 15 July 2025: Government under pressure as a provincial police commissioner accuses the country’s police chief of colluding with criminal gangs. Cape Town, South Africa – When Patricia Blows heard a senior police official’s explosive allegations against South Africa’s political and law enforcement elite last week, her thoughts went straight to the stalled investigation into […]
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A gang member’s drawings of satanic symbols. Images courtesy Ashwill Phillips. Tue 15 July 2025: Gang-related crime in South Africa is widespread, but is under-reported outside hotspots such as the Cape Flats in Cape Town or Westbury in Johannesburg. In these areas gangs are deeply rooted and contribute to ongoing violence, drug trafficking and territorial conflict. But gangs have continued […]
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