Tue 28 October 2025: The 13th edition of the Islamic Economics and Finance Summit opened its doors to visitors on Tuesday at Istanbul-based Bogazici University. The event is organized by the Islamic Economics Research Center (IKAM) of the ILKE Foundation. Anadolu serves as its global communications partner. Ahmet Saik Oner, chair of the ILKE Foundation, stated that the organization […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: Potential CO2 emissions from new projects 11 times global “carbon budget” remaining to hit Paris Agreement targets. Twenty-eight new “carbon bomb” projects have launched across the globe over the past five years, according to a report issued by NGOs. Despite global efforts to phase out the use of fossil fuels, known […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: Elon Musk, the U.S. business tycoon, unveiled Grokipedia on Monday—an AI-powered online encyclopedia designed to challenge what he describes as Wikipedia’s “woke” bias. The tech billionaire announced the platform this month on his US social media company X, claiming an AI-created knowledge hub would be “super important for civilization” and essential […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: Sudan’s army chief and chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council said Monday that the military decided to withdraw from El-Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur region, to prevent further “systematic destruction and killing” of civilians by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In an address aired on state television, Abdel […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned Monday that countries would reject being asked to “enforce” peace in Gaza if deployed under US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan. “What is the mandate of security forces inside of Gaza? And we hope that it is peacekeeping, because if it’s peace enforcing, nobody will want […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: US President Donald Trump acknowledged Monday that he received a magnetic resonance imaging test during a recent hospital visit, but did not disclose the reason why doctors had ordered the MRI. “I did. I got an MRI. It was perfect,” Trump, 79, told reporters, responding to a reporter who asked what […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: Jamaica is bracing for Hurricane Melissa, predicted to be the most destructive storm on record to hit the Caribbean island. Forecasters say the Category 5 storm is likely to cause “catastrophic” flooding, landslides and widespread damage. After Jamaica, Melissa is expected to make landfall in eastern Cuba later today. A hurricane warning has […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: The World Health Organisation says two years of fighting has more than doubled the number of people in Gaza who need mental health care, rising from about 485,000 to more than one million. Before Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023, UNICEF estimated about 500,000 children in Gaza needed mental […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ We won’t beg Trump: “When America did not support our struggle, we didn’t sit and cry, OR [Tambo] went to the Soviet Union and we got support, so it is the same thing happening today. When the West troubles us, we must know […]
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Mon 27 October 2025: A tsunami of outrage and solidarity has flooded social media following the scandalous arrest of Muslim journalist Sami Hamdi, with prominent Muslim voices demand his immediate release. Hamdi, a popular commentator across the Muslim world, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and had his visa revoked after being stopped […]
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