Mon 10 August 2026: Lost harvests and disrupted supply routes have pushed many families deeper into food insecurity. Xai-Xai, Mozambique – Months after floodwaters tore through his neighbourhood, Joacim Pinto still walks past the empty plots where his crops once grew. The ground that once gave his family food and income now stands as a reminder […]
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Mon 10 August 2026: Group chats are best on WhatsApp – from staying close to your inner circle to coordinating with your fantasy league. Today we’re making them even better with new polls updates for faster decision-making, @all mentions to get everyone’s attention, and a simpler way to create new group chats from existing groups. […]
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Mon 10 August 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Malema expected to face criminal prosecution: Pieterse filed a complaint after Malema publicly called the former Bergview College principal a “rapist” at the party’s event in Johannesburg in April 2025 and maintained that he had raped the seven-year-old pupil. But the National […]
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Sun 09 August 2026: A Thesis on the Secular Trap, the 2026 Delimitation Crisis, and the Awakening of a Generation or over seven decades, the Muslims in India have been an active, hopeful participant in the world’s largest democratic experiment. Driven by a sincere desire for physical security, political representation, and economic progress, the community […]
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Sun 09 August 2026: At least 382,000 people or 110,000 families in eight regions have been affected in the Philippines by the combined effects of the recent enhanced southwest monsoon (habagat) and tropical cyclones Luis and Maymay, the Philippine News Agency reported, citing the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. The death toll remained […]
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Sun 09 August 2026: Artificial intelligence was used in 55% of reported cybercrimes in Africa, according to an Interpol report. The International Criminal Police Organization’s Africa Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, which was published Monday, said AI was enabling cyberattacks to be carried out faster, on a larger scale and in ways that were harder to […]
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Sun 09 August 2026: Nagasaki on Sunday marked the 81st anniversary of the US dropping an atom bomb on the city amid a push for renewed debate over nuclear weapons in a challenge to the nation’s long-time pacifist stance. “Nuclear weapons are not a ‘necessary evil’ but an ‘absolute evil,’ and can never coexist with […]
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Sun 09 August 2026: One of the planet’s most active volcanoes, Mount Etna, spewed smoke and ash during a fresh eruption on Saturday, prompting the halt of incoming flights at a nearby airport in Sicily. “Due to Etna’s eruptive activity and the associated release of volcanic ash into the atmosphere, the airspace corresponding to the […]
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Sun 09 August 2026: Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and Pakistan form a new defence pact, leaving Israel’s response and its implications uncertain. Israel is yet to officially respond to a defence agreement signed in Mecca by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye, which some analysts have perceived as a challenge to Israeli regional expansionism. Turkiye, viewed as […]
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Sun 09 August 2026: Modern humans carry genetic material inherited from two previously unknown ancient human populations, according to a new study that provides further evidence of widespread interbreeding during human evolution. In the study, published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley developed a computational technique called TRACE to […]
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