Thu 12 June 2025: Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, former land minister, was featured in Al Jazeera’s investigation, The Minister’s Millions. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen properties in the United Kingdom owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Bangladesh’s former Minister of Land, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal. The move follows legal requests from Bangladesh authorities […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: The United States is preparing to evacuate its embassy in Baghdad due to heightened security risks in the region, three US and two Iraqi sources said on Wednesday while a US official said military dependents could also leave Bahrain. The sources did not specify which security risks had prompted the decision […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has confirmed that South Africa is closely monitoring the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant, NB.1.8.1—also known as Nimbus—which has been linked to rising case numbers in several Asian countries. Speaking at the 4th Health Working Group meeting of the G20 in Johannesburg, Motsoaledi said the […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated, according to a new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population between 2010 and 2020. Christianity grew by 122 million members in that decade, but declined as an overall slice of the world’s population. Still, […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is assembling a top team of AI experts to develop “superintelligence,” a type of AI that outperforms human capabilities. Dissatisfied with Meta’s AI progress, Zuckerberg had invited AI researchers to his Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto homes as part of efforts to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: The Trump administration is planning to send up to 9,000 undocumented migrants to the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as early as this week, the Washington Post and Politico reported Tuesday. Officials told the news outlets that foreign nationals under consideration for transfer to the facility include migrants from […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Several countries attending the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in the French Mediterranean city of Nice have called for a binding international agreement to tackle plastic pollution, a growing threat to marine ecosystems and human health. Co-chaired by Costa Rica and France, the conference has brought together leaders and senior […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: In an unprecedented conservation effort, 70 southern white rhinos traveled over 3,400 kilometers (2,112 miles) from South Africa to Rwanda via truck and Boeing 747, marking the largest rhino translocation ever recorded. As part of a rewilding program, the rhinos were moved in two groups of 35, first by air and […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Tech billionaire says some of his social media posts about US president ‘went too far’. Tech billionaire Elon Musk has expressed regret over his broadsides against United States President Donald Trump following their spectacular public falling-out. “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” Musk said in a […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Israeli finance minister ends waiver that Palestinian banks rely on to operate after Western sanctions announced. Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has cancelled a waiver that Palestinian banks rely on to operate hours after five Western governments announced he faced sanctions, along with fellow ultra-nationalist Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, for inciting […]
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