Mon 01 June 2026: The official White House Instagram page associated with former US President Barack Obama was hacked, according to a Monday report by entertainment news outlet TMZ. The breach was discovered Sunday after several unusual posts appeared on the account, which uses the handle @obamawhitehouse. The most prominent post was an AI-generated image […]
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Mon 01 June 2026: Restaurants across the European Union will no longer be allowed to serve single-use ketchup, mayonnaise, soy sauce and other condiment sachets to dine-in customers beginning Aug. 12. The ban is part of new EU packaging waste rules targeting plastic pollution. The restriction falls under the bloc’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, […]
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Mon 01 June 2026: A provision in the 2027 draft US defence bill could bind the two countries’ weapons industries closer than ever. A provision in a bill before the United States Congress could tie the US and Israeli militaries far more closely together, deepening their cooperation on weapons research, production and technology. The proposal, […]
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Mon 01 June 2026: Not all data centres are back online while internet protocols remain blocked, restricted or ‘whitelisted’. Tehran, Iran – Authorities in Iran have reinstated some internet access three months after taking the country offline at the start of the war with the United States and Israel, but restrictions remain in place for most people. The […]
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Mon 01 June 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ DA, RISE Mzansi account for nearly 90% of donations declared to IEC: Five political parties made declarations during the reporting period, including late and cumulative declarations. Democratic Alliance – R57 317 303 | RISE Mzansi – R30 000 000 | ActionSA – […]
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Sun 31 May 2026: Pallegama Hemarathana is accused of abusing an 11-year-old girl in a Buddhist temple in 2022. Sri Lanka’s Buddhist hierarchy has suspended a prominent senior monk accused of sexually abusing a child, in the religiously conservative nation’s highest-profile case involving a local clergyman. In rare disciplinary action, 71-year-old Pallegama Hemarathana was stripped […]
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Sun 31 May 2026: More than seven million people in conflict-torn South Sudan — around half the population — are in dire need of food aid, the United Nations warned on Friday. The UN’s World Food Programme denounced the “alarming situation” in the world’s youngest sovereign state, saying the organisation was in “a tight race against time” to scale up its response. […]
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Sun 31 May 2026: Parents overwhelmingly back Australian-style restrictions on social media for children, the British technology secretary has said. Ministers are considering a ban on social media for under-16s and more than 80,000 people have responded to a consultation on whether to introduce restrictions. One option is an Australian-style ban that forbids children under 16 from having […]
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Sun 31 May 2026: The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has dismissed reports that it has deployed soldiers in anticipation of protest action at the end of June. “The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has noted with concern misleading reports on social media suggesting that the SANDF will be deployed in anticipation of planned […]
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Sun 31 May 2026: A drone hit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Russian-controlled southern Ukraine, the UN nuclear agency has said, citing local officials. The International Atomic Energy Agency posted on social media that the Russian-run plant’s operator informed it that a drone had hit the turbine building on Saturday, “reportedly causing a hole […]
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