Thu 25 September 2025: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has announced that Pyongyang has acquired new “secret weapons” as part of its efforts to strengthen its military capabilities, the Korean Central News Agency reported on Monday. “We’ve newly acquired secret weapons and achieved feats in the defense science field that will greatly help bolster our military […]
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Thu 25 September 2025: American actress Angelina Jolie said Sunday she no longer recognizes her country, voicing concern over threats to free expression while presenting her latest film at Spain’s San Sebastián film festival. Her comments come as worries grow over free speech in the United States, after President Donald Trump’s crackdown on critical media […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: A Canadian probe revealed that TikTok, a social media app with numerous underage users in Canada, did not adequately enforce age limits and gathered substantial sensitive personal information from children. The Canadian government on Tuesday published its report on TikTok amid ongoing debates in the US over whether the app should […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: NASA announced that the number of confirmed exoplanets discovered beyond the Solar System has reached 6,000. This milestone marks the highest level reached by rapidly advancing exoplanet research since the 1990s. In 1992, two planets were discovered orbiting a pulsar for the first time, and in 1995, the first exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: US President Donald Trump has linked childhood vaccine use and paracetamol use by pregnant women to autism. The World Health Organization (WHO) has debunked United States President Donald Trump’s claim of a possible link between autism and the use of paracetamol during pregnancy. In a statement on Wednesday, the organisation emphasised that there […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: Platform to allow people to securely pass on information anywhere in the world, or offer their own services to MI6. The United Kingdom’s spy agency is set to launch a web portal on the dark web to recruit informants and receive secret information from agents in Russia and worldwide, Britain’s Foreign, […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: Trump presents plan on ending war on margins of UNGA dominated by Gaza, billed countries attending meeting as ‘the group that could do it’. Turkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that he is “pleased” with the results of a “fruitful” meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Arab and Muslim leaders […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: Press freedom around the world has suffered its sharpest fall in 50 years as global democracy weakens dramatically, a landmark report found. According to the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), democracy has declined in 94 countries over the last five years and only a third have made […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: Dozens of Israel’s leading economists warned that a full military reoccupation of the Gaza Strip would push Israel into an unprecedented economic downturn. In a statement reported Monday by the Israeli outlet Walla, more than 80 academics and former senior officials at the Finance Ministry and Bank of Israel said the […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: The three West African countries say they are leaving the International Criminal Court to seek ‘sovereignty’. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, three nations in West Africa run by military governments after coups in recent years, have announced their exit from the International Criminal Court (ICC), referring to it as “neocolonial repression” […]
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