Tue 10 June 2025: The EU Coordinator for the Fight Against Anti-Muslim Hate, Marion Lalisse, highlighted the concerning trend of discrimination faced by Muslims in EU countries despite being overqualified in terms of employment and education. Despite their high qualifications, Muslims continue to face bias and barriers in the job market, resulting in lower employment rates […]
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Tue 10 June 2025: Italy severs links with Paragon spyware after allegations of targeting critics and migrant rescuers spark outrage. Italy has terminated its contracts with Israeli spyware company Paragon, after revelations that the surveillance technology was used against critics of the government – including journalists and migrant rescue workers – prompted political uproar and calls for […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: From dangerous diet tips to disinformation, cyberbullying to hate speech, the glut of online content harmful to children grows every day. But several European countries have had enough and agree the EU should do more to prevent minors’ access to social media. The European Union already has some of the world’s […]
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Mon 09 June 2025: Foreign interference in elections is a real concern but sometimes used as an “alibi” by democracies to divert attention from domestic issues, the head of a democracy think-tank said Monday. According to a new report by Stockholm-based International IDEA, disinformation and manipulation of social media algorithms to influence results are among […]
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AI tools reveal how images have been manipulated. William Theisen et al. Sun 08 June 2025: Imagine a country with deep political divisions, where different groups don’t trust each other and violence seems likely. Now, imagine a flood of political images, hateful memes and mocking videos from domestic and foreign sources taking over social media. What […]
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Sat 07 June 2025: What does it take to stand for justice in a world shaped by power and politics? In this episode, OnePath’s Malaz Majanni sits down with Ebrahim Rasool, former South African Ambassador to the United States, for a timely conversation on diplomacy, faith, and moral leadership. __________________________________________________________________________ https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaAtNxX8fewmiFmN7N22 __________________________________________________________________________ From South Africa’s […]
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Sat 07 June 2025: Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world’s oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers of both countries said late yesterday, after an Egyptian court ruling last week cast uncertainty over its future, Reuters reports. The St Catherine’s Monastery, at the foot of Egypt’s Mount Sinai, was […]
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Sat 07 June 2025: When it comes to our health, we’re constantly being warned about being taken in by misinformation. Yet for most of us what we believe ultimately comes down to who we trust, including which “experts” we trust. The problem is that not everyone who presents themselves as an expert is actually an […]
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Fri 06 June 2025: In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent South African businessman and the father of Elon Musk, Errol Musk. Topics of discussion include: Family background and heritage: from England to South Africa. Growing up white in apartheid South Africa: memories and reality. Marriage to Maye […]
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Fri 06 June 2025: Developed by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the pen features magnetic ink and a special tip that converts hand movements during writing into electrical signals. These signals are then analyzed by AI to detect markers associated with Parkinson‘s. More than 10 million people worldwide are thought to be living […]
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