Mon 31 March 2025: The Department of Small Business Development has unveiled a digital platform to support spaza shops and other food-handling facilities as well as combat illegal businesses. The new digital platforms went live on Friday, 28 March 2025, following the announcement by Small Business Development Minister, Stella Ndabeni. DSBD Connect is a digital […]
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Mon 31 March 2025: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a stinging response to Trump’s message that Iran will face heavy US bombardment if it fails to reach a nuclear weapons deal. “They threaten to attack us, which we don’t think is very probable, but if they commit any mischief they will surely receive a […]
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Mon 31 March 2025: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday announced that more than 24,000 people with no right to remain in the UK have been returned since Labour took office, Anadolu news agency reported. Speaking at the opening of the Organised Immigration Crime (OIC) summit in London, Starmer said this marked the highest return rate […]
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Mon 31 March 2025: Political and economic uncertainty as well as fear of Trump orders are driving Americans to seek other citizenships. In an era of political volatility and rising global uncertainty, a growing number of Americans are seeking second passports as a safety net against future instability. According to citizenship and residency advisory firms […]
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Mon 31 March 2025: The founder of ByteDance, and owner of TikTok, Zhang Yiming, became the richest person in China. Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed on Thursday that he became the world’s 24th richest person. Forbes Billionaires List and Hurun Rich List, a ranking of the richest individuals in China, also showed that he is the […]
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Image is for Illustration purposes. Mon 31 March 2025: A joint Egyptian-American archaeological team from the University of Pennsylvania has uncovered a royal tomb from the Second Intermediate Period in the Jebel Anubis necropolis in Abydos, southern Egypt, the Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said Sunday. Another archaeological team from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities also discovered a pottery workshop from the Roman era […]
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Mon 31 March 2025: More than 50 mosques across the country sustained damage when the magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck. Hundreds of Muslim worshippers are feared to be among the more than 1,600 people who died in a powerful earthquake which struck central Myanmar when they had gathered at mosques for prayers during Ramadan. According to the shadow […]
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Mon 31 March 2025: Floating solar panels installed on reservoir lakes in India have grown to a size visible from space. These systems save land, reduce evaporation, and help prevent algal blooms. India is expanding these projects across the country, turning reservoir lakes into energy hubs. While installation costs are high and environmental impacts remain debated, these […]
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Mon 31 March 2025: Trump warns of 25 percent US tariffs on Russian oil, urging Putin to halt Ukraine bloodshed in tense diplomatic standoff. US President Donald Trump has said he is “p****d off” at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and has threatened to impose secondary sanctions on Russian oil if Moscow does not agree […]
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Sun 30 March 2025: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Türkiye would not allow Syria’s territorial integrity to be sabotaged or the festering of instability across the southern Turkish border. In a statement for Eid al-Fitr – the holiday at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan – Erdogan highlighted that […]
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