Wed 08 October 2025: The World Trade Organization (WTO) raised its 2025 global trade growth forecast to 2.4%, up from 0.9% in August, but warned of a slowing growth for 2026, according to the Global Trade Outlook and Statistics report Tuesday. “Global merchandise trade outpaced expectations in the first half of 2025, driven by increased […]
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Wed 08 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ South Africa doesn’t need more political parties, it needs more entrepreneurs: In reality, it is a symptom of a deeper malaise — a society where too many people, often unemployed and lacking in economic opportunity, turn to politics not out of ideological conviction […]
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Tue 07 October 2025: A man has been arrested following an arson attack on a mosque in East Sussex on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life. Sussex Police have said that a 46-year-old man is now in custody following an arrest made on Monday afternoon. At 9.50pm on Saturday 4 October, emergency services […]
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Tue 07 October 2025: The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, expressed deep concern on Tuesday over the intensifying conflict in northern Mozambique, where nearly 22,000 people were forced to flee their homes in late September due to a fresh wave of violence. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, UNHCR’s Mozambique representative, Xavier Creach, described the surge as […]
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Tue 07 October 2025: Walk into a shop, board a plane, log into your bank, or scroll through your social media feed, and chances are you might be asked to scan your face. Facial recognition and other kinds of face-based biometric technology are becoming an increasingly common form of identification. The technology is promoted as […]
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Tue 07 October 2025: UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, on Tuesday decried the grave price paid by innocent children in Gaza, calling on Israel to declare an immediate ceasefire to end what it called an “unprecedented” violence in the besieged enclave. “For nearly two years now, children have paid the heaviest price in this […]
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Tue 07 October 2025: The World Bank raised its economic growth forecast for China on Tuesday to 4.8% for 2025 in spite of months of trade disruptions between the world’s top two economies. The new gross domestic product (GDP) growth projection is 0.8 percentage points higher than the World Bank’s April forecast, and it is […]
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Tue 07 October 2025: French prosecutors said on Monday they are investigating tech giant Apple‘s voice assistant Siri after receiving a complaint from a tech researcher accusing the company of illicit data collection. The probe, which was first reported by the news website Politico, has been entrusted to a police force specialised in cybercrime, the prosecutors’ office in Paris said […]
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Tue 07 October 2025: On Monday, Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian President, commented that the source of recent drone disruptions across Europe is still unknown, yet he suggested that these events act as a stark warning to Europeans about the perils of conflict. Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, played down the theory […]
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Tue 07 October 2025: Since the outbreak of the genocidal war on Gaza nearly two years ago, the world has been confronted with an extraordinary reality: a besieged people whose homes are levelled, whose hospitals are bombed and whose families are torn apart, yet who rise from beneath the rubble — sometimes barefoot, often with […]
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