Fri 17 July 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ SA’s population has grown by almost 53% since 1996, but it’s ageing: The elderly recorded the fastest average annual growth between 1996 and 2022 at 3%, while the population of children aged up to 14 grew by just 0.7% a year. The […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: Gold fell below $4,000 per ounce on Thursday, while silver posted a sharper decline, as escalating attacks in the Middle East drove oil prices higher and revived concerns over inflation and the outlook for US interest rates. Gold was last down 1.9% to $3,983 as of 1310GMT, slipping below the psychologically […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: Syrian authorities thwarted an attempted weapons smuggling on its border with Iraq, reportedly heading to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, state media said Thursday. The truck that was seized was carrying advanced weapons and rockets, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency quoted an unnamed Interior Ministry official as saying. A […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: Muslims need to have dialogue with each other, as the immigrant debate is creating divisions in the community, political analyst Thembisa Fakude said at the Kasi Muslim Dialogue in Soweto on Friday, 10 July. Fakude spoke on xenophobia, afrophobia and immigration, and said that the current climate in which tensions are high around the debate on immigration posed one […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: Syrian authorities have arrested a former officer they say was a chemical weapons specialist in charge of sarin gas depots and chemical weapons manufacturing in the regime of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad. The Interior Ministry named him on Wednesday as former colonel Ahmed Habib Ali, calling him “a chemical weapons […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: When the movie “Her” debuted in 2013, its plot felt like science fiction. The protagonist, Theodore, is a jaded man with no vigor for life. He comes alive after talking daily with his artificial intelligence chatbot, Samantha, with whom he eventually falls in love. But today people actually report being in relationships with […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: Smoke from wildfires in northwestern Ontario has spread to other areas of the province, leading to severely poor air quality and decreased visibility. As a result, Environment Canada issued a high-level air quality warning on Wednesday. The weather agency said smoke conditions are expected to continue, with possible improvement not expected until early Friday. It […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: United Nations agencies have reported that two boats carrying over 500 people are believed to have capsized off Myanmar‘s coast in recent days. According to preliminary information reported on Thursday by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), the two vessels departed from Myanmar’s Rakhine State in late June carrying […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: A 14-year-old boy arrested by British police has been charged with a crime related to “terrorism” over an alleged plot to target local mosques. London’s Metropolitan Police revealed the charge against the unnamed boy on Wednesday, saying he was suspected of preparing to carry out an “act of terrorism” in connection […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: Russia on Tuesday warned that the military contingents from the so-called “coalition of the willing” in Ukraine would be “legitimate military targets” if stationed there. Commenting on remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron about plans for deploying forces in Ukraine at a press briefing in Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova […]
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