ERDOGAN SAYS TRUMP MEETING WITH ARAB, MUSLIM LEADERS ON GAZA WAS ‘FRUITFUL’

Wed 24 September 2025: Trump presents plan on ending war on margins of UNGA dominated by Gaza, billed countries attending meeting as ‘the group that could do it’. Turkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that he is “pleased” with the results of a “fruitful” meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Arab and Muslim leaders […]

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REPORT FINDS GLOBAL PRESS FREEDOM SUFFERS SHARPEST FALL IN 50 YEARS

Wed 24 September 2025: Press freedom around the world has suffered its sharpest fall in 50 years as global democracy weakens dramatically, a landmark report found. According to the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), democracy has declined in 94 countries over the last five years and only a third have made […]

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80 ISRAELI ECONOMISTS WARN GAZA REOCCUPATION TO SPARK ‘SEVERE ECONOMIC CRISIS’

Wed 24 September 2025: Dozens of Israel’s leading economists warned that a full military reoccupation of the Gaza Strip would push Israel into an unprecedented economic downturn. In a statement reported Monday by the Israeli outlet Walla, more than 80 academics and former senior officials at the Finance Ministry and Bank of Israel said the […]

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MILITARY-RUN NIGER, MALI AND BURKINA FASO ANNOUNCE JOINT ICC WITHDRAWAL

Wed 24 September 2025: The three West African countries say they are leaving the International Criminal Court to seek ‘sovereignty’. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, three nations in West Africa run by military governments after coups in recent years, have announced their exit from the International Criminal Court (ICC), referring to it as “neocolonial repression” […]

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PROTESTS HELD ACROSS ISRAEL CALLING FOR END TO GAZA WAR, CAPTIVE DEAL

Sun 17 August 2025: Demonstrators took to the streets across Israel on Sunday, calling for an end to the war on Gaza and a deal to release captives still held by Hamas, as the military prepares a new offensive. The protests come more than a week after Israel’s security cabinet approved plans to capture Gaza City, following 22 months […]

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SERBIA ROCKED BY VIOLENT CLASHES AS ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS INTENSIFY

Sun 17 August 2025: Mass riots took place late on Saturday night in a number of cities in Serbia, rioters attacked police officers, set fire to and destroyed offices of government agencies and political parties, Reuters reported quoting Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic. According to the minister, the most complicated situation has been reported in the […]

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STUDY WARNS ONE THIRD OF UK FAMILY DOCTORS COULD LEAVE OVER BURNOUT

Sun 17 August 2025: Up to one-third of Britain’s family doctors, the backbone of the National Health Service (NHS), may consider leaving direct patient care within five years, mainly due to burnout and job dissatisfaction, according to a University of Manchester study on Tuesday. The research, published in Frontiers in Public Health and funded by […]

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CHATGPT CAN BYPASS SAFEGUARDS, GIVE HARMFUL ADVICE TO CHILDREN: STUDY

Sun 17 August 2025: US-based OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT’s lack of ethical safeguards poses serious risks to young people, a new report has found, as concerns mount over the safety of AI-powered chatbots. The British-American watchdog Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said in an Aug. 6 report that ChatGPT gave harmful information […]

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SEXUAL VIOLENCE SURGED AMID WAR IN DRC’S NORTH KIVU LAST YEAR: UN

Sun 17 August 2025: A total of 22,000 cases registered in province in 2023; in first five months of 2024, figure had already reached 17,000. Healthcare providers in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) treated more than 17,000 victims of sexual violence over just five months last year, according to a United […]

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