Thu 09 July 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ South Africans living in small towns headed for serious trouble: His comments come after the National Treasury announced that it would temporarily withhold the equitable share transfers for July from 69 municipalities. The Treasury said the transfers would resume once the affected municipalities […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: France’s ambassador to South Africa says French authorities have closed their investigation into the death of former South African ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, after concluding that he died by suicide, eNCA reported Mthethwa died in September last year after falling from the 22nd floor of the Hyatt Regency hotel in […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: Many people in the UK now use apps, smartwatches or wearable devices to track their physical activity. Fitness trackers promise to help users become fitter, happier and healthier versions of themselves. For many people, they can be useful: a nudge to move more, a way to notice patterns, or a reminder […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Anne Ancia, said the country’s Ebola epidemic continues to spread and that its true scale has not yet been fully determined. Ancia made the remarks during the United Nations’ weekly press briefing in Geneva. She said the epidemic […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: Britain’s Prince Harry and a group of other high-profile claimants have lost a privacy case against the publisher of the Daily Mail. The High Court dismissed their claims against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) after Justice Matthew Nicklin ruled that they had failed to prove allegations of unlawful information gathering, according to […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: Egypt coach Hossam Hassan on Tuesday claimed his side suffered an “unjust defeat” to Argentina in the FIFA World Cup round of 16 because of “marketing support” intended to keep the defending champions in the tournament. Hassan criticized French referee Francois Letexier after Egypt’s 3-2 defeat, saying the match lacked fairness […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: In this episode of The Thinking Muslim, we sit inside the historic Al-Nuri Bimaristan in Damascus with Dr. Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre to explore one of the most remarkable institutions in Islamic civilisation. The bimaristan was not simply a hospital. It was a place of healing that understood the human being in their […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: On July 8, at about 11:10 GMT, about 99 percent of the world experiences sunlight at the same time. Because of Earth’s tilt and the timing of the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, about 99 percent of the world’s population – some 8.2 billion people – will experience daylight or twilight simultaneously on […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: More than 5,500 children have been newly displaced by fighting over the strategic Sudanese city of el-Obeid, and thousands more are at risk, Save the Children has warned. “As families arrive in displacement sites and into local communities, they face increasingly difficult living conditions,” the international charity said in a statement. […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: The United States and Iran have exchanged attacks after the US military said Iran struck ships in the Strait of Hormuz, threatening a fragile ceasefire between Tehran and Washington. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said its strikes on Iran began on Tuesday and were conducted “in response to Iranian attacks on […]
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