Sat 22 August 2026: Under-fives, over 65s, pregnant women and those with health conditions should avoid undercooked or runny eggs when eating out due to a salmonella outbreak, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) warned Friday. Vulnerable people should not eat undercooked eggs when eating out, but well-cooked eggs in restaurants, cafes and from takeaways were […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: Australian wildlife authorities are vaccinating thousands of little penguins against H5 bird flu in a major effort to protect the species. The campaign, which began Monday, targets up to 5,000 little penguins on Victoria’s Phillip Island and at St Kilda in Melbourne. The birds will receive two doses of the vaccine, […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: A U.S. judge has invalidated a Trump administration policy that halted the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, ruling that it went beyond Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s legal authority. Judge Jeannette Vargas of Manhattan said in her ruling on Friday in the Southern District of New York […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: China is getting ready to send up its next Moon mission, Chang’e 7, which will explore the lunar south pole in search of water ice, state media China Daily reported on Wednesday. Early Wednesday, the Chang’e 7 spacecraft and its Long March-5 Y14 rocket were moved vertically to the launch pad […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: The people who built the device in our pockets won’t even let their kids use it. There are now multiple lines of evidence showing that social media is causing harm at an industrial scale. Peter Teal, who co-founded PayPal and then the surveillance data firm Palunteer, reportedly allows his children 90 […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: Who is Ahmad Hassoun, the ‘barrel bomb mufti’ close to the inner circle of the al-Assad regime? The verdict in the criminal case against Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, a top Muslim religious figure during former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, is set to be announced in Damascus on Monday. Prosecutors have called […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: UN Secretary-General’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday that 94 per cent of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip need shelter and basic household supplies, amid the ongoing Israeli occupation and blockade of the territory. Dujarric made the remarks during a press conference in New York marking World Humanitarian Day, observed on […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: Every electric vehicle, smartphone and laptop battery begins with one essential ingredient: lithium. The critical mineral sits at the centre of the global transition to cleaner energy. Lithium powers rechargeable batteries. Securing its supply is, therefore, an economic and geopolitical priority. The International Energy Agency expects global lithium demand to increase as electric vehicle production […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: Over Labor Day weekend, two expectant parents didn’t get the viral hit they had hoped for. During a gender reveal party in Southern California, a “smoke-generating pyrotechnic device” was supposed to simply reveal a color – pink for a girl, blue for a boy – before a crowd of onlookers. Instead, […]
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Sat 22 August 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ ANC lays criminal charges against DA leader Mark Burke over crypto company: “Burke served as the DA’s Federal Finance Chairperson while being associated with a company facing serious regulatory scrutiny,” the ANC said. “Publicly disclosed IEC records also indicate that he personally donated […]
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