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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Wed 19 March 2025: Audi, a brand of German automaker Volkswagen Group, announced Monday that it will lay off 7,500 jobs in Germany in areas such as management and development until 2029, according to a press release by the firm. “The economic conditions are becoming increasingly tougher, competitive pressure and political uncertainties are presenting the […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Staff at several major National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in London have been prohibited from wearing pro-Palestinian symbols following complaints that they were “distressing and intimidating to vulnerable patients.” Barts Health NHS Trust confirmed the policy after a pro-Israel lobby group reported increasing concerns from Jewish patients who felt uncomfortable seeing […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: The world’s biggest video sharing platform, YouTube, has just turned 20. It was started inauspiciously in February 2005 by former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim – with a 19-second video of Karim exploring San Diego Zoo. That year, YouTube’s disruption of the media timeline was minimal enough for there to be no […]
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Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, meet with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha, Qatar Wed 19 March 2025: The three countries call for ‘immediate and unconditional ceasefire’ in eastern DRC. Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Shutdown of US-funded news outlets ends more than 80 years of uncensored news broadcasts in China. Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese state media and pro-China commentators have welcomed the de facto shutting down of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) following the latest budget cuts by the administration of United States President […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is buying the gaming division of developer Niantic, whose titles include mobile game Pokémon Go, for $3.5 billion. This is the latest purchase for the kingdom, which in the past few years has made significant strides in becoming a global hub for esports and gaming, […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: India, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were four of the five top arms importers globally between 2020 and 2024, a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) earlier this month has shown. Ukraine was the world’s largest importer of major weapons over the past five years, accounting for […]
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