Thu 22 May 2025: New research warns that runaway melting of Earth’s major ice sheets could cause significant sea level rise and force mass migration from coastal areas— even if global warming is limited to the widely accepted 1.5°C target. A team of international scientists aimed to determine a “safe limit” of global warming for […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: A ‘comprehensive review’ of the US’s chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 has also been ordered. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the United States is reviewing whether to designate Afghanistan’s rulers, the Taliban, as a “foreign terrorist organization”. Rubio told the House Foreign Affairs Committee during […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: South African leader keeps calm in the face of an ‘ambush’ by President Donald Trump about false ‘white genocide’ claims. Johannesburg, South Africa – When the millionaire mining magnate-turned-president of South Africa landed in Washington to meet the billionaire real estate tycoon-turned-president of the United States, it was with a deal in […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: Headline consumer price index (CPI) inflation for April was 2.8%, slightly higher than March’s 2.7%, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has announced. The CPI increased by 0.3% month-on-month in April 2025. Inflation for food and non-alcoholic beverages (NAB) rose to 4.0%, the highest annual rate since September 2024 (4.6%). The monthly […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: The US has accepted a 747 jetliner as a gift from Qatar, the US media outlets reported Wednesday, citing a defense department spokesman. According to the report, the Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to rapidly upgrade the plane so it can be put into use as […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: For the first time in three years, government has proposed an inflation-linked increase to the general fuel levy. “For the 2025/26 fiscal year, this is the only new tax proposal that I am announcing. It means from 4 June this year, the general fuel levy will increase by 16 cents per […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: The United Nations agency for women stated on Monday that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s war began in October 2023. “That is one woman and one girl on average killed every hour in attacks by Israeli forces,” UN Women said in a statement. […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: The destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level ever recorded in 2024, driven by a surge in fires caused by global heating, according to “frightening” new data. From the Brazilian Amazon to the Siberian taiga, Earth’s forests disappeared at a record rate last year, losing an area the size […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: A report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Poland’s National Research Institute (NASK) revealed Tuesday that 25% of jobs worldwide are potentially exposed to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), with clerical and highly digital occupations facing the highest vulnerability. The report, “Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure,” presented what […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: Statement from Biden’s office comes after US President Donald Trump expressed doubt over timing of diagnosis. Former United States President Joe Biden was not diagnosed with prostate cancer before last week, and received his “last known” blood test for the disease more than a decade ago, his office has said. The […]
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