Wed 19 November 2025: The US Congress has passed a bill that could compel the Department of Justice (DoJ) to release all records related to the affair involving the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with the measure now heading to President Donald Trump’s desk. The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved the bill with 427 votes in favour and just one against. […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: Venezuela’s president cautioned on Monday that any U.S. military incursion into his nation would spell the “political end” of Donald Trump’s leadership. Since August, when Trump directed a US military buildup in the Caribbean to dismantle drug cartels and disrupt narcotics smuggling networks associated with Maduro, frictions between the United States […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: NGO says Swiss food giant is ‘putting the health of babies at risk for profit’ by adding sugar to babyfood. Swiss food giant Nestle has been adding sugar to babyfood to help it stoke sales in Africa, Asia and Latin America – after cutting it from products sold in European markets, […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: New international student enrollment at US colleges and universities fell sharply this year amid mounting visa delays and the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown, according to new data released Monday. The Institute of International Education (IIE) reported a 17% drop in new international enrollees for fall 2025 — the largest non-pandemic decline in more than a […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ How to spot the India-based fake news flooding SA: South Africans are being hit by a relentless wave of professionally packaged but entirely fabricated news stories circulating on WhatsApp, Facebook and cloned websites. As exposed in News24’s recent investigation into an Indian disinformation […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: E-hailing APP Providers working with e-hailing operators in Gauteng have been urged to legally register their applications in line with Section 66(A) of the National Land Transport Amendment Act, 2009 (Act No. 5 of 2009). “[The Act] requires e-hailing platform providers to register their digital applications (Apps) with the National Department […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: A widespread Cloudflare outage on November 18, disrupted access to several major online platforms including OpenAI, Twitter (X), Spotify, Canva, Calude and other big platforms leaving millions of users unable to connect. The incident highlights the critical role Cloudflare plays in powering the backbone of internet via its content delivery and […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner invited the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to a high-profile 2013 New York Observer anniversary gala that listed Trump, Harvey Weinstein, and a slate of prominent media and political figures as guests, according to newly published emails. The emails were released last week by […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: On Tuesday, Bitcoin dropped over 5.2%, hitting its lowest point in seven months amid macroeconomic concerns, especially those surrounding the US Federal Reserve’s future interest rate decisions. The largest cryptocurrency was trading at $90,100 at 0600GMT, around its weakest level since April. It also briefly sank below the $90,000 level. Data […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: The UN Security Council adopted a US-drafted resolution Monday establishing a new transitional Board of Peace (BoP) and authorizing an International Stabilization Force (ISF) to oversee governance, reconstruction and security efforts in the Gaza Strip. The resolution received 13 votes in favor, with China and Russia abstaining. Speaking before the vote, […]
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