Sat 09 August 2025: French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou urged the public to back his drastic public spending cuts, warning that the country’s debt is growing by €5,000 ($5,784) every second. The €43.8 billion ($50.9 billion) deficit-cutting program unveiled last month targets a budget gap that hit 5.8% of GDP last year – nearly double […]
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Sat 09 August 2025: Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said fully occupying the Gaza Strip would require mobilizing about 200,000 reservists, according to public broadcaster KAN. His remarks came during a 10-hour Cabinet meeting on Thursday, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a “gradual plan” to seize full control of Gaza. The plan was […]
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Sat 09 August 2025: The World Health Organization on Thursday said nearly 100,000 cholera cases had been reported in Sudan since July last year, as it warned of more hunger, displacement and disease to come. Since April 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by a power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, commander of […]
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Sat 09 August 2025: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has dropped prominent historical figures like Tipu Sultan, Haider Ali, Raziya Sultan and Nur Jahan from the history syllabus of 8th class. This change has been done under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education […]
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Sat 09 August 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ National dialogue in peril: In a joint statement released on Friday, 8 August, the foundations—including those of Steve Biko, Thabo Mbeki, Chief Albert Luthuli, Desmond and Leah Tutu, FW de Klerk, and Oliver and Adelaide Tambo—announced their immediate withdrawal from the event’s Preparatory […]
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Sat 09 August 2025: Citing a rushed process and government overreach, several prominent legacy foundations have pulled out of the upcoming National Convention. A coalition of South Africa’s most respected legacy foundations has withdrawn from the inaugural National Convention, scheduled for 15 August. The pull-out casts a shadow over the credibility of the entire National […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: The United States has announced a pause on all routine visa applications for citizens of Zimbabwe. The announcement marks the latest restriction imposed by the Trump administration on travellers from Africa. The State Department said in a statement on Thursday that the US embassy in Zimbabwe would pause all routine visa […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: How does one speak of a “Muslim World” when the supposed collective is either silent, complicit, or supine in the face of genocide? When Muslims from Gaza to Kashmir, from Sudan to Syria, are being brutalized with impunity, and the so-called leaders of Muslim-majority states are either polishing boots in Washington […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Think about how many things you have done online today. Paid a bill? Logged into your bank account? Used social media or spent time answering emails? Maybe you have used your phone to pay at a supermarket or train station. We are all plugged in, and that’s not necessarily a bad […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Italy has approved a $15.5bn suspension bridge which will connect the mainland to the island of Sicily. Italy has given final approval to a long-delayed plan to construct the world’s longest suspension bridge, connecting the mainland to Sicily in a project worth €13.5bn ($15.5bn). Transport Minister Matteo Salvini hailed the Strait […]
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