Fri 28 November 2025: Businessman Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala claims he paid the former police minister for protection and assistance with a police tender. Controversial businessman Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala has alleged he paid former police minister Bheki Cele R500,000. Matlala made the explosive claims while testifying from prison this week. He appeared before a parliamentary ad […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: US president says second National Guard member is ‘fighting for his life’ after the attack a day earlier in Washington, DC. United States President Donald Trump has said one of two National Guard troops shot a day earlier near the White House has died, while the other soldier is “fighting for his life”. […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Rising cases of chronic stress could be down to a mismatch between modern living and our own biology, according to a new study. Colin Shaw from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and Daniel Longman from Loughborough University in the UK. They pulled together a wealth of evidence that suggests our […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Humanitarian group says at least 400 children reached Tawila without their parents after Rapid Support Forces’ advance. Hundreds of Sudanese children have arrived in the town of Tawila in Sudan’s western Darfur region without their parents since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of the city of el-Fasher last month, a […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Fri 28 November 2025: Archaeological excavations in the Mühlheim-Dietesheim region of Germany have revealed unexpected traces of blue pigment on a stone artifact dating back roughly 13,000 years, challenging established understandings of prehistoric art. Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark identified the blue residue on the stone as the mineral pigment azurite, marking the earliest known […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Thursday that a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials took place last week in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), at the initiative of Kyiv. Speaking at a news conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Putin said the meeting was attended by “a US administration representative” and that the event […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tel Aviv is not on a path toward peace with Damascus, claiming that the Yemeni Houthi group is active in Syria. “Israel is not moving toward peace with Syria because there are forces within its borders thinking about invading Golan towns,” Katz claimed during a […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday that all G20 members, including South Africa, should be invited to the next year’s summit in Florida. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin, Merz criticized the US administration’s absence from last weekend’s G20 summit in Johannesburg and Trump’s announcement that South Africa would not be invited to the […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: According to new data published by UNICEF on Tuesday, more than one in four children globally, around 610 million, live with mothers who have experienced physical, emotional or sexual abuse by an intimate partner in the past year, making violence a part of their everyday lives. The data brief is released […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Thursday rejected calls for separation or federalism in Syria, saying the coastal region remains a “priority” for his administration. “We are focused on protecting the country from internal and external risks and on economic development,” Sharaa told a meeting in Latakia via video conference. Protests erupted in several cities […]
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