Tue 14 July 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ US gives SA another deadline: The hearing concerned the Section 301 Investigations into the Acts, Policies, and Practices of 60 Economies Related to the Failure to Impose and Effectively Enforce a Prohibition on the Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labour. “In the […]
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Tue 14 July 2026: Police forces across England will receive a £251 million ($335 million) funding boost to strengthen protection for Jewish communities following a rise in antisemitic attacks, the British government announced. Under the three-year package, London’s Metropolitan Police will receive £86 million to recruit around 300 additional officers as part of plans to […]
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Mon 13 July 2026: Israel reportedly conducted a years-long covert operation aimed at recruiting former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an intelligence asset before developing a plan for regime change that would have installed him as Iran’s new leader, according to a report by The New York Times citing former US officials. The operation ultimately […]
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Mon 13 July 2026: Yemen’s internationally recognised government says its forces have carried out a strike at Sanaa airport to prevent an Iranian aircraft from landing there. The Yemeni capital, Sanaa – and much of northern Yemen, including the port city of Hodeidah on the country’s western Red Sea coast – is controlled by the […]
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Mon 13 July 2026: Wildfires burning in France’s Fontainebleau forest have led to home evacuations and caused disruptions to train and motorway traffic, as a heatwave continues to affect Western Europe. The wildfires broke out near a motorway outside Fontainebleau, located about 60km (42 miles) southeast of Paris and home to one of France’s best-known royal palaces. By Monday […]
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Mon 13 July 2026: For the BJP-VHP-RSS holy trinity, the donations scam in the Ram temple has grown into more than just a risk of electoral loss. It has also become a loss of ideology and of face. I am in a cab in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, where our family village home […]
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Mon 13 July 2026: Russia said Monday it would give an “appropriate response” to the latest sanctions imposed by the United Kingdom and the European Union over alleged Russian cyber and hybrid operations across Europe. “Moscow will give an appropriate response,” the Russian Foreign Ministry told state news agency RIA in response to a question […]
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Mon 13 July 2026: Cybersecurity experts are warning that criminals are using artificial intelligence to launch more convincing cyberattacks, making it easier to target businesses and organizations. Finnish cybersecurity officials say threats remain at a high level, with phishing, ransomware, account theft and supply-chain attacks among the most common dangers, according to a report by […]
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Mon 13 July 2026: Brent crude oil prices rose about 5% on Monday after renewed US-Iran attacks heightened concerns over shipping and energy supplies through the Strait of Hormuz. The international benchmark climbed to around $80 per barrel as of 0550GMT after both sides carried out fresh missile and drone strikes over the weekend. The […]
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Performers reenact the trans-Atlantic slave trade at Christiansborg Castle, a former slave trading post, during the high-level consultative conference on the next steps to the landmark United Nations resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans on June 19, 2026, in Accra, Ghana. (Photo by Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images) Mon 13 July 2026: Descendants of enslaved Africans […]
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