Thu 23 October 2025: A UN Population Fund official warns that 11,500 pregnant women are among the one in four Palestinians currently starving in war-devastated Gaza. Andrew Saberton said “starvation is particularly catastrophic” for both mothers and their newborn children, with premature and low birth weight babies now making up about 70 percent of newborns […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Zuma to address media: The briefing comes a day after the former president was ordered by the Gauteng High Court to repay R28.9 million with interest that the government spent on his legal fees. Wednesday after it ruled that he was personally liable […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Syrian civil defense teams on Tuesday retrieved the remains of 20 people from a mass grave east of the city of Douma in the Damascus countryside, local media said, Anadolu reports. The state-run Al-Ikhbariya channel, citing a civil defense statement, said the remains were found at a site in the Tal al-Sawan […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: The Kremlin said that Russia will be represented at a high level at the two-day summit scheduled for November. The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not travel to South Africa for a G20 summit in Johannesburg on November 22-23, but that Russia would be represented at […]
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Sigismonda Drinking The Poison (1897). Joseph Edward Southall/Birmingham Museums Trust Wed 22 October 2025: Poisoning is a term most often associated with the human body and natural environments. But it is also a growing problem in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) – in particular, for large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude. In fact, a joint study by […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: The Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has condemned the behaviour of Israeli settlers towards Christians in the West Bank, describing the situation as “absolutely unacceptable.” According to Vatican News, Parolin made the remarks during a press conference in Rome, held on the sidelines of a meeting about […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Amazon is set to dramatically expand its automation efforts, potentially eliminating the need to hire more than 500,000 workers in the US in the coming years, according to a Tuesday report by The New York Times. Citing internal company documents and interviews, the newspaper revealed that Amazon’s robotics division plans to […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Over 20% of the EU population faced poverty or social exclusion risks in 2024, per Eurostat’s Friday report. Five regions had rates over twice the EU average, with French Guiana topping the list at 59.5%, followed by Calabria (48.8%) and Campania (43.5%) in southern Italy, and Spain’s Melilla and Ceuta, each […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Mine action chief warns that unexploded munitions pose long-term danger as reconstruction begins, with 328 casualties reported in Gaza since October 2023. The UN’s mine action programme chief in the occupied Palestinian territories has said that the organisation is “deeply concerned about the heightened risk” posed by Israeli explosive ordnance in […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Wed 22 October 2025: Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and international collaborators have discovered rare remnants of “proto Earth,” the planet’s ancient precursor that existed 4.5 billion years ago. They offer a glimpse into the material that predated the massive impact that shaped our modern world. The […]
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