Mon 09 June 2025: Eskom has called on communities to stop illegal connections and energy theft as South Africa heads into a week of severe winter conditions. The power utility warned that these activities often lead to transformer overloads, equipment failures and, in some cases, explosions and extended outages—forcing Eskom to implement load reduction to […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: From dangerous diet tips to disinformation, cyberbullying to hate speech, the glut of online content harmful to children grows every day. But several European countries have had enough and agree the EU should do more to prevent minors’ access to social media. The European Union already has some of the world’s […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Foreign interference in elections is a real concern but sometimes used as an “alibi” by democracies to divert attention from domestic issues, the head of a democracy think-tank said Monday. According to a new report by Stockholm-based International IDEA, disinformation and manipulation of social media algorithms to influence results are among […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Ukraine’s “creativity”, including its massive “Spider’s web” drone attack deep inside Russia, holds profound lessons for Western militaries, the top NATO commander overseeing battlefield innovation told AFP. “What the Ukrainians did in Russia was a Trojan horse — and the trojan horse was thousands of years ago,” French Admiral Pierre Vandier, […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Rwanda announced its withdrawal from the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), accusing the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo of “instrumentalising” the bloc with the support of member states. “Rwanda’s right to the rotating presidency, as stipulated in Article 6 of the treaty [establishing ECCAS], was deliberately ignored” with instructions […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: A Japanese research institute announced Tuesday that the final phase of a clinical trial testing a Parkinson’s drug as a potential treatment for familial Alzheimer’s disease has been underway since May. The project, led by Towa Pharmaceutical Co. in partnership with Kyoto University’s Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, uses […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Elon Musk’s threat, which he later retracted, to cut off NASA’s use of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft would be a huge blow to NASA, depriving the space agency of the only American vehicle capable of transporting astronauts to the International Space Station and dramatically changing how NASA would access the 100 billion […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: White British children are currently a minority in one in four schools across England, The Telegraph reported, citing government records. The report was based on the results of school census data collected from more than 21,500 educational institutions across the country in early 2025. According to the figures, in 72 English […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Iranian intelligence agencies have obtained a large trove of sensitive Israeli documents, some related to the nuclear plans and facilities, Iran’s state media reported on Saturday according to Reuters. There was no immediate official comment from Israel and it was not clear whether the report was linked to a reported hacking of […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Israeli soldiers kidnapped the activists onboard the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen late Sunday, said the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. “SOS! the volunteers on ‘Madleen’ have been kidnapped by Israeli forces,” the international NGO, which organized the mission, said on Telegram. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who was in phone contact with the […]
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