Tue 28 October 2025: Elon Musk, the U.S. business tycoon, unveiled Grokipedia on Monday—an AI-powered online encyclopedia designed to challenge what he describes as Wikipedia’s “woke” bias. The tech billionaire announced the platform this month on his US social media company X, claiming an AI-created knowledge hub would be “super important for civilization” and essential […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: The World Health Organisation says two years of fighting has more than doubled the number of people in Gaza who need mental health care, rising from about 485,000 to more than one million. Before Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023, UNICEF estimated about 500,000 children in Gaza needed mental […]
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Mon 27 October 2025: A tsunami of outrage and solidarity has flooded social media following the scandalous arrest of Muslim journalist Sami Hamdi, with prominent Muslim voices demand his immediate release. Hamdi, a popular commentator across the Muslim world, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and had his visa revoked after being stopped […]
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Mon 27 October 2025: Three separate controversies involving leaked text messages from private online group chats have rocked U.S. political circles this month, revealing racist, antisemitic and violent statements from figures across the ideological spectrum. The messages – sent privately but now public – include racial slurs, praise for Nazis, and threats of political violence, […]
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Mon 27 October 2025: People who sleep poorly may have brains that appear nearly a year older than their actual age, according to a new study of more than 27,000 adults age 40 to 70. The research, published in British medical journal the Lancet, analyzed participants’ sleep habits and brain MRI scans, using artificial intelligence […]
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Screen grab TRT World Mon 27 October 2025: Prominent British Muslim journalist and critic of Israel, Sami Hamdi, has been detained by US immigration and had his visa revoked following an online smear campaign by far-right Zionist propagandists and Islamophobes. In a post shared on X, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said Immigration […]
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Sun 26 October 2025: You check prices online for a flight to Melbourne today. It’s $300. You leave your browser open. Two hours later, it’s $320. Half a day later, $280. Welcome to the world of algorithmic pricing, where technology tries to figure out what price you’re willing to pay. Artificial intelligence (AI) is quietly remaking […]
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Sun 26 October 2025: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that Gaza’s health system has been devastated by Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory, which began on 7 October 2023. “There are no fully functioning hospitals in Gaza,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warning that “the total cost of rebuilding the Gaza […]
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Sun 26 October 2025: The US passport dropped from the world’s top 10 most powerful list for the first time in the 20-year history of a key rankings index. The declining strength of the US passport since its November 1 spot in 2014 “signals a fundamental shift in global mobility and soft power dynamics,” per […]
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Fri 24 October 2025: The United States national debt topped $38 trillion, as the gap between government spending and revenues in the world’s largest economy expands at a rapid pace. The US Department of the Treasury included the staggering figure in its latest report on the nation’s finances, with the debt standing at $38,019,813 as […]
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