IRAN THREATENS ‘SPECIAL MEASURES’ IF ISRAEL ATTACKS NUCLEAR FACILITIES

Thu 22 May 2025: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned that his country will “forcefully respond” to any Israeli attack after CNN reported that the Israeli military could be preparing strikes. “Iran strongly warns against any adventurism by the Zionist regime of Israel and will decisively respond to any threat or unlawful act by […]

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TRUMP TELLS EUROPEAN LEADERS RUSSIA NOT READY TO END UKRAINE WAR: REPORT

Thu 22 May 2025: US President Donald Trump, during a phone call with European leaders on Monday, said Russian President Vladimir Putin is not ready to end the war in Ukraine as he believes he is winning, according to three Wall Street Journal sources who were familiar with the conversation. The newspaper said the “acknowledgment was what European leaders had long believed about Putin—but […]

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EASTERN AUSTRALIA REELS FROM FLOODS: TWO DEAD, 50,000 STRANDED

Thu 22 May 2025: Relentless downpours battered eastern Australia for a second day on Thursday, with overflowing rivers flooding roads and isolating nearly 50,000 people. In Taree, 300 km north of Sydney, police discovered a 63-year-old man’s body in a flooded home, and another body, likely a missing man in his 30s, was found in […]

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ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP, ISLAMIC RELIEF FORGE PARTNERSHIP FOR REFUGEES

Thu 22 May 2025: The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group and humanitarian aid foundation Islamic Relief’s US branch Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) have partnered to support the Global Islamic Fund for Refugees (GIFR). As part of the IsDB’s annual meeting in the Algerian capital Algiers, the two institutions signed an agreement Wednesday to provide sustainable […]

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ISRAELI EMBASSY STAFF MEMBERS KILLED OUTSIDE JEWISH MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON, DC

Thu 22 May 2025: Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy were fatally shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum in downtown Washington, DC late Wednesday, US authorities have confirmed. The victims, identified by the Israeli Foreign Ministry as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were shot at close range as they exited an event hosted […]

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STUDY WARNS OF ACCELERATED ICE SHEET MELTING, RISING SEA LEVELS

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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CLASSIFYING TALIBAN AS ‘FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION’ UNDER REVIEW: US

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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CAN RAMAPHOSA CHARM OFFENSIVE HELP FIX SOUTH AFRICA’S TIES WITH TRUMP’S US?

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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