Fri 05 June 2026: About 9,000 years ago, the Neolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk was an egalitarian, matrilineal society with no evidence of organised violence. Catalhoyuk, Turkiye – About an hour southeast of Konya lies one of the most exciting Neolithic finds of the 20th century – the densely populated settlement of Catalhoyuk. Occupied for 1,000 years […]
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Fri 05 June 2026: Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a two-day visit to North Korea on June 8-9 at the invitation of Kim Jong Un, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The visit, announced on Friday, comes as Beijing seeks to shore up ties, with Pyongyang having strengthened relations with Russia. Xi also recently met with […]
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Fri 05 June 2026: Bangladesh on Wednesday reported seven new deaths linked to measles, bringing the total number of confirmed and suspected fatalities from the outbreak to 601 since mid-March. Of the total deaths, 90 have been medically confirmed as caused by measles, according to the Directorate General of Health Services. Health authorities also recorded […]
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Fri 05 June 2026: You’re trying to book concert tickets before they sell out. You click the link and before you can make the payment, you’re asked to identify traffic lights, bicycles or blurry crosswalks in a grid of tiny images. Again. For many people, this has become a routine part of life. Logging into […]
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More than 100,000 exotic cockroaches were seized from an alleged commercial breeder in Bathurst. (Supplied: DCCEEW) Fri 05 June 2026: On Friday, Australian authorities confiscated 100,000+ live exotic cockroaches from a commercial breeder in Bathurst, NSW — the country’s largest seizure of illegal exotic invertebrates to date. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment […]
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Fri 05 June 2026: US President Donald Trump’s legal team has refused to provide financial records sought by the BBC in a $10 billion defamation lawsuit, escalating a discovery dispute in a Florida court, according to a British daily. Financial Times reported Friday that Trump sued the BBC over a 2024 Panorama documentary, alleging the […]
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Fri 05 June 2026: Israeli police have launched a plan to recruit religious Jews and far-right activists to serve at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to assert Israeli control over the site, according to a report published by the Israeli daily Haaretz. The newspaper reported on Wednesday that Israeli police are recruiting religious Jews to work […]
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Fri 05 June 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Ramaphosa to dispatch diplomatic envoys across Africa as migration issues mount: Ramaphosa said South Africa is already consulting governments across Africa on migration management. He said the country wants to understand how other countries had dealt with border pressures. He did not […]
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Thu 04 June 2026: Government troops and militias allied with the opposition exchanged fire overnight and on Thursday morning in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians to flee, residents told Reuters. The violence flared up ahead of planned protests on Thursday over President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s decision to remain in office after […]
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Thu 04 June 2026: Lebanese army soldiers began entering the southern town of Dibbine on Thursday following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency. NNA reported that Lebanese army units moved into the town in the Marjayoun district shortly after Israeli forces pulled out. The deployment comes […]
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