Fri 14 November 2025: A recent high court judgment could be a game changer for the setting of municipal electricity tariffs in South Africa. In late October 2025, the court ruled that the process used by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to decide yearly electricity price hikes was unconstitutional because it stifled public participation and violated […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: A humanitarian crisis is unfolding at OR Tambo International Airport where more than 150 Palestinian refugees reportedly seeking asylum in South Africa have been denied entry and left stranded on an aircraft, News24 reported. The refugees, who arrived from Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday morning, were denied entry due to missing exit […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: Indian authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have launched one of their biggest security crackdowns in recent months, raiding hundreds of homes linked to the banned Muslim organisation Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI). Police said the operations, carried out across the southern districts of Kulgam, Sopore, and Shopian, targeted the homes of JeI members and […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: Human rights groups and legal experts are urging the international community to act against the ongoing persecution of the Uyghur people in China. International pressure is mounting on China over its treatment of the Uyghur population. Human rights organisations are calling for concrete action citing a growing body of evidence of […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: Drinking a single glass of sugar-sweetened soda every day may raise the risk of high blood pressure by nearly a third, according to a new study. A healthy individual who does not drink soda has about a 6% risk of developing high blood pressure, which increases to 8% with daily consumption, research published in the […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: The UK government on Tuesday announced a £75 million ($98 million) strategy to phase out animal testing in science, replacing it with advanced alternative technologies. Unveiled by Science Minister Patrick Vallance, the plan sets out a roadmap to reduce and ultimately end animal use in research and safety testing, while maintaining rigorous standards for human health […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: Two days after the deadly car explosion outside Red Fort in Old Delhi that claimed 13 lives, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday said it was a “heinous terror incident, perpetrated by anti-national forces”, the first official confirmation from the government. Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Cabinet observed a two-minute silence in […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: The head of the African Union Commission has rejected claims by US President Donald Trump that Christians are being killed in a genocide in northern Nigeria, telling a UN forum in New York that such characterizations distort a far more complex security crisis. Speaking alongside UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday, Mahmoud Ali […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: US president calls emails a ‘hoax’ meant to distract from government shutdown crisis, without addressing their content. A 2011 email sent by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein says that United States President Donald Trump “spent hours” with one of the victims – an allegation that is likely to further fuel calls […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: President Ramaphosa says, ‘The United States needs to think again whether boycott politics actually works because in my experience it doesn’t work.’ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says United States President Donald Trump’s decision to boycott the Group of 20 (G20) summit next weekend in Johannesburg is “their loss”. The US […]
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