Tue 05 August 2025: Focus on ‘zama zamas’ ignores the organised crime networks profiting from the trade, while a complex socio-economic legacy traps thousands of former mineworkers. As law enforcement agencies intensify crackdowns on illegal miners, known as zama zamas, a leading researcher argues that the focus on individual workers overlooks the highly organised criminal […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: The United States’ decision to impose a 30% tariff on South African imports has sent shockwaves through local industries. As the country’s second-largest trading partner, the US provides vital market access for agriculture, automotive and textile exports. Economists warn that the tariffs could threaten jobs and disrupt supply chains that have […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: Around 3,200 highly-skilled Boeing personnel decided to go on strike, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Union announced on Monday. The union said on X: “3,200 highly-skilled IAM Union members at Boeing went on strike at midnight because enough is enough.” It previously said its members working at Boeing voted on Sunday […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: Senegal said Saturday that it is positioning new gendarmerie units in the east of the country as it faces growing security threats along its border with Mali. Terrorist attacks early last month in western Mali included an assault on Diboli, a border community less than 500 metres from the town of […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: In a disturbing incident in Belagavi district of Karnataka, a member of the Sri Rama Sena allegedly poisoned the drinking water at a government school in an attempt to oust its Muslim principal, leaving several children aged between seven and ten seriously ill, the News Minute reported. The Soundatti Police Station registered […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: The Kremlin said on Monday that everyone should be careful about nuclear rhetoric, in its first response to a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump that he had ordered a repositioning of U.S. nuclear submarines. Kremlin spokesman cplayed down the significance of Trump’s announcement last Friday that he had ordered two subs to be moved to […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: An opinion poll on Sunday revealed a sharp decline in public trust in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his government, and the army, Anadolu reports. A survey by the Institute for National Security Studies, a Tel Aviv-based research institution, showed that 76% of Israelis have lost trust in Netanyahu’s government, which has been […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: A giant hole on the Sun‘s surface has ejected a record amount of rare helium-3 gas into space. In October 2023, this gas was measured at a concentration 180,000 times higher than normal, marking a significant discovery that could unlock new insights into the Sun’s mysteries. Toward the end of October 2023, astronomers detected […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: At least 55 irregular African migrants have drowned when a boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, officials said Sunday. The boat with dozens of migrants, mostly from Ethiopia, sank off the coast of Abyan province in southern Yemen at dawn due to bad weather conditions, a security source told Anadolu […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: Plastic pollution causes more than $1.5 trillion in health-related economic damage annually and contributes to disease and death at every stage of life, according to a new review published on Sunday in the medical journal The Lancet. “The world is in a plastics crisis,” the authors wrote. “But it is not […]
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