Fri 06 December 2024: With around 1.1 billion tourists travelled internationally in the first nine months of 2024, international tourism has reached 98 percent of the figures prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, according to the United Nations tourism agency (UN Tourism). In its Tourism Barometer report issued on Wednesday, the […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: United States Africa Command, or AFRICOM, is a military structure founded in 2007 with the entire African continent as, to use the military jargon, its “theatre of operations”. The idea behind establishing the Command is hegemonic in nature and interventional in practice. The Command’s mission statement says AFRICOM “counters transitional threats and malign […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered new insights into the Spiderweb protocluster, a massive “city of galaxies” forming 10 billion light years from Earth, European Space Agency (ESA) reported on Wednesday. By observing the protocluster as it appeared just 4 billion years after the Big Bang, astronomers identified previously […]
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Fri 06 December 2024: The demands of the people were snuffed out by a deranged dictator who decided he would burn his country, before giving up power. We thought the revolution had ended, and the millions of Syrians dispersed around the world were never to see their homeland again. This all spectacularly changed this past […]
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Thu 05 December 2024: WhatsApp, a Meta-owned social media platform has announced that it will discontinue support for certain older iPhone models starting May 5, 2025. Popular devices from Apple Inc., are likely to discontinue the support of the app on the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus. Which iPhones are affected? According […]
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Thu 05 December 2024: Experts on Wednesday called for bold action against harmful practices and violence against women, and girls in West and Central Africa at the UN summit on women’s rights in Senegal. Violence against women through traditional norms, discrimination, violence extremism, and social media is “alarming” in West and Central Africa, according to […]
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Wed 04 December 2024: European countries have agreed to downgrade the protection status of wolves due to their growing number and effect on agriculture and farming livestock. The 49 member states of the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats agreed to lower the wolf’s protection status from “strictly protected” to […]
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Wed 04 December 2024: As the peak Christmas diamond sales period approaches, the millions of people who have marched in city streets worldwide calling for an end to Israel’s genocide and apartheid should now call out the jewellery industry’s complicity in the genocide and demand reparations for its victims. Multinational corporations with operations in Israel generate revenue […]
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Wed 04 December 2024: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Wednesday that an estimated 305 million people around the world will require humanitarian assistance in 2025, launching its Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) for next year. The appeal seeks $47 billion to provide life-saving aid in 33 countries and nine refugee-hosting […]
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Mon 02 December 2024: A recent survey based on insights by business leaders regarding the impact of smartphones on children’s communication abilities indicates that increased smartphone usage may hinder essential speaking and listening skills. What did the survey find? The YouGov poll, part of a report by the Commission for Oracy Education in England, highlights […]
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