Thu 23 October 2025: The weight-loss drug semaglutide reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes, regardless of the amount of weight lost, according to a new study. The study, published this week in The Lancet, said that drugs such as semaglutide may provide health benefits beyond weight reduction, including lowering cardiovascular risks, and should […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: The European Union has passed its latest package of sanctions on Russia, the bloc’s foreign policy chief announced on Thursday. “We just adopted our 19th sanctions package. It targets Russian banks, crypto exchanges, entities in India and China, among others,” Kaja Kallas wrote on the US social media company X. The […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: A joint investigation by Norway’s NRK and 21 other public media outlets revealed that AI language models like ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, and Gemini generated notable factual or sourcing inaccuracies in nearly 50% of their news-related answers. According to a report published on Wednesday by NRK Beta, 45% of all answers contained […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: The United States is mulling over a proposal to leave Gaza’s territory divided while rebuilding Israel-control areas only and figuring out how to disarm Hamas, a news report says. “The US and Israel are considering a plan that would divide Gaza into separate zones controlled by Israel and Hamas, with reconstruction […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: A UN Population Fund official warns that 11,500 pregnant women are among the one in four Palestinians currently starving in war-devastated Gaza. Andrew Saberton said “starvation is particularly catastrophic” for both mothers and their newborn children, with premature and low birth weight babies now making up about 70 percent of newborns […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Zuma to address media: The briefing comes a day after the former president was ordered by the Gauteng High Court to repay R28.9 million with interest that the government spent on his legal fees. Wednesday after it ruled that he was personally liable […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Syrian civil defense teams on Tuesday retrieved the remains of 20 people from a mass grave east of the city of Douma in the Damascus countryside, local media said, Anadolu reports. The state-run Al-Ikhbariya channel, citing a civil defense statement, said the remains were found at a site in the Tal al-Sawan […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: The Kremlin said that Russia will be represented at a high level at the two-day summit scheduled for November. The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not travel to South Africa for a G20 summit in Johannesburg on November 22-23, but that Russia would be represented at […]
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Sigismonda Drinking The Poison (1897). Joseph Edward Southall/Birmingham Museums Trust Wed 22 October 2025: Poisoning is a term most often associated with the human body and natural environments. But it is also a growing problem in the world of artificial intelligence (AI) – in particular, for large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude. In fact, a joint study by […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: The Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has condemned the behaviour of Israeli settlers towards Christians in the West Bank, describing the situation as “absolutely unacceptable.” According to Vatican News, Parolin made the remarks during a press conference in Rome, held on the sidelines of a meeting about […]
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