Tue 30 June 2026: For the first time in 20 years, US billionaire Warren Buffett is skipping his usual midyear donation to the Gates Foundation as he waits for the results of an internal review into the group’s ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Investor and philanthropist Buffet, […]
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Tue 30 June 2026: Habitat destruction, pollution and climate change are the leading threats to global fisheries, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned. According to information compiled by Anadolu from FAO’s “The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2026” report, the share of fish stocks classified as biologically sustainable fell from 64.5% […]
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Tue 30 June 2026: Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the transitional president of Burkina Faso, maintains discreet diplomatic ties with Israel, even while publicly expressing staunchly anti-Western rhetoric, Africa Intelligence reported. Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s transitional president, has quietly approved the accreditation of Israel’s new ambassador to Ouagadougou, Simon Seroussi, who is currently based in Abidjan. […]
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Tue 30 June 2026: WhatsApp will let users go by usernames instead of phone numbers, closing a longstanding privacy gap on the app used by more than three billion people. The Meta-owned platform said on Monday that it has begun letting users reserve unique usernames before a wider rollout later this year when people will be […]
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Tue 30 June 2026: Reports of health problems linked to injectable weight-loss medicines have nearly doubled in the past year, raising concerns among medical specialists about increasing unsupervised use of powerful drugs and emerging experimental treatments. Healthcare professionals submitted 149 reports in 2025 involving patients who had used injectable weight-loss drugs, compared with 76 reports […]
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Tue 30 June 2026: Sleeping bags, folding chairs, people who had been waiting on pavements for days. By the time Apple Store doors opened on June 29, 2007, queues for the first iPhone stretched around city blocks across the United States, including outside Apple and AT&T stores in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and […]
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Tue 30 June 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ Ramaphosa holds last-minute talks with anti-immigration leaders: President Cyril Ramaphosa met with two of the country’s most prominent anti-immigration activists, Nkosikhona Ndabandaba and Ngizwe Mchunu, in the hours before nationwide community demonstrations were set to proceed, in what appeared to be a last […]
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Tue 30 June 2026: Overburdened consumers will be in for some relief from tomorrow after the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) announced a decrease in fuel prices, excluding LP Gas. The adjustment for prices from July are as follows: Petrol 93 (ULP & LRP): R2.01 decrease. Petrol 95 (ULP &LRP): R1.96 decrease. Diesel […]
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Mon 29 June 2026: The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned mass gatherings in the capital, Kinshasa, and three other provinces in a bid to curb the spread of the Ebola virus, the Interior Ministry said in a directive to provincial governors late Sunday. Political meetings, public marches, demonstrations and other gatherings likely to attract […]
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Mon 29 June 2026: Nearly half of the dialysis machines at Gaza’s al-Shifa Medical Complex are now out of service because of a severe shortage of sodium bicarbonate. This critical substance is used to correct dangerous acid buildup in the blood of patients with kidney failure. Dr. Ghazi al-Yaziji, head of the Artificial Kidney Department […]
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