Thu 20 March 2025: British universities are grappling with widespread job cuts and course closures as financial pressures mount, with experts warning of a sector-wide transformation that could affect students, staff, and local economies. A report by the University and College Union (UCU) indicates that more than 5,000 job cuts have been announced this academic […]
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Thu 20March 2025: Consumer price inflation has remained at 3.2% in February – unchanged from January. According to Statistics South Africa, the main contributors to the annual inflation rate were: Housing and utilities (4.4% and contributing 1.0 percentage point); Food and non-alcoholic beverages (2.8% and contributing 0.5 of a percentage point), and Restaurants and accommodation […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: Billionaire Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday, “They basically want to kill me, I guess they are bad people,” amid growing controversy over his team’s US government reform work, which Musk said is meant to cut costs but his critics say is reckless destruction with no idea of how government works. The […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt by one in five people worldwide, a new report revealed on Wednesday. The report published by Climate Central, an independent science organization, found that at least 1.8 billion people—22% of the global population—faced temperatures significantly influenced by climate change every day from […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: The “Arab NATO” initiative, which has been discussed increasingly in diplomatic circles in recent years, has once again become a hot topic in the relationships between Arab countries and the United States. Washington and Tel Aviv insist that this plan can guarantee the security of Arab nations, but can their claims […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor as part of what they say are investigations into alleged corruption and terror links. Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was arrested on Wednesday morning, with the state-run Anadolu Agency saying prosecutors issued detention warrants for the mayor and roughly 100 […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Google has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging racial bias in pay and career opportunities, the BBC reported Wednesday. Filed in 2021 by former employee Ana Cantu, the lawsuit claimed that Hispanic, Latino, Native American, and other minority workers were placed in lower-paying positions than their […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: The Gaza Strip has officially entered the first phase of famine amid Israeli curbs on the entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave, local authorities said on Wednesday. “Gaza has officially entered the first stage of famine, with nearly two million people completely losing their food security,” Ismail Thawabteh, who heads […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore safely splashed down off the coast of Florida on Tuesday after they spent more than nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Also on board were NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who returned […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Social grant beneficiaries who have not replaced their South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) gold cards with the new Postbank black cards, have only one day left to make the change, before their gold cards stop working. After tomorrow, 20 March 2025, SASSA gold cards will be deactivated and beneficiaries who […]
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