Mon 18 May 2026: Archaeologists at the ancient city of Pompeii Archaeological Park in southern Italy have identified one of the victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD as a doctor after advanced diagnostic examinations revealed surgical instruments hidden inside a plaster cast. The findings are linked to ongoing research on materials […]
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Mon 18 May 2026: Hebrew media reported that Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has instructed the implementation of the death penalty against Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks in the occupied West Bank, a move previously pushed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Israel’s Channel 14 said that, under Katz’s instructions, the death penalty “will be […]
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Mon 18 May 2026: Israelis in settlements near the Gaza Strip are increasingly angry, accusing the army of seizing private surveillance footage related to the October 7, 2023 events and returning it “incomplete and deliberately altered,” Israeli media reports revealed. Israeli officials regard the events as the country’s biggest intelligence and military failure, one that […]
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Mon 18 May 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ How Correctional Services explained the R726 cooking oil controversy: This comes after Parliament uncovered staggering food price inflation within the DCS, revealing that the state was paying inflated prices on cooking items. It found that the department was paying R3,700 for gravy powder […]
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Sun 17 May 2026: Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Sunday that nuclear weapons are the “cornerstone” of Russia’s national security, according to Russian media outlet Vesti. Peskov said Russia’s nuclear arsenal protects the country from threats to its existence. “A nuclear power cannot be threatened; its existence cannot be threatened. This is what gives us […]
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Sun 17 May 2026: Boasting the equivalent weight of nine elephants, Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis had enough unique features to be considered a new species. Scientists have identified the remains of a massive new species of dinosaur in Thailand, estimated to have weighed as much as nine adult elephants. “Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis” is the largest-known dinosaur from Southeast […]
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Sun 17 May 2026: Felicien Kabuga, accused of financing the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, died in a hospital in The Hague, Netherlands, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) announced Saturday. In a statement, the mechanism said the medical officer of the United Nations Detention Unit (UNDU) was immediately notified, while […]
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Sun 17 May 2026: Britain has deployed a new low-cost anti-drone missile system to RAF operations in the Middle East as the UK steps up its efforts to protect Gulf states. The Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) has been rushed into service, moving from trials to active deployment in less than two months, to […]
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Sun 17 May 2026: Microsoft has dismissed the head of its Israeli subsidiary and several senior managers following an internal investigation into allegations that its cloud infrastructure was used to surveil Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, marking one of the most serious accountability crises to hit Big Tech in years. Alon Haimovich, […]
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Sun 17 May 2026: Dogs can be very aggressive towards one another, as many people will have witnessed in public places. But in South Africa aggression between dogs occurs more often in people’s homes. We, a group of South African veterinary scientists including epidemiologists and a behaviourist at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of […]
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