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QATAR, UK JOINTLY ANNOUNCE $11.2M FOR ROHINGYA, HOST COMMUNITIES IN BANGLADESH

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Mon 08 December 2025: The UK and Qatar have jointly announced $11.2 million in funding to support more than 647,000 Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh’s southeastern Cox’s Bazar district. The joint funding will support the provision of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to vulnerable refugee households, aiming to improve living conditions and reduce environmental degradation in and around the camps, according to […]

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WHY WE REMEMBER THE SOURCE OF AN OPINION BETTER THAN THE SOURCE OF A FACT – NEW RESEARCH

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Mon 08 December 2025: In public discourse, we spend a great deal of collective energy debating the accuracy of facts. We fact-check politicians, monitor social media for misinformation, and prioritise data-driven decision-making in our workplaces. This focus is vital; the distinction between truth and falsehood is the bedrock of a functioning society. However, by focusing […]

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SPACE DEBRIS: WILL IT TAKE A CATASTROPHE FOR NATIONS TO TAKE THE ISSUE SERIOUSLY?

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Mon 08 December 2025: China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there’s nothing routine about its journey home. The Shenzhou-20 capsule will carry no crew, because one of its windows has been struck by space debris. Astronauts […]

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WHO WARNS INFERTILITY AFFECTS 1 IN 6 PEOPLE

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Sun 07 December 2025: Infertility affects one in six people of reproductive age worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as it released a new global guideline that outlines recommendations for improving access to prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The WHO said access to fertility care remains “severely limited” despite the scale of the issue. In many countries, […]

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BEWARE: BLOOD DIAMONDS ARE FUNDING ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES

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Sun 07 December 2025: Last week the 2025 chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, Ahmed Bin Sulayem, had an article published extolling the benefits of the scheme. He must have had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when he sent the article for publication. Despite the bullish headline, integrity was missing from the outset. If, […]

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FROM PRINTING PRESSES TO FACEBOOK FEEDS: WHAT YESTERDAY’S WITCH HUNTS HAVE IN COMMON WITH TODAY’S MISINFORMATION CRISIS

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 An illustration from ‘The History of Witches and Wizards,’ published in 1720, depicting witches offering wax dolls to the devil. Wellcome Collection/Wikimedia Commons Sun 07 December 2025: Between 1400 and 1780, an estimated 100,000 people, mostly women, were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe. About half that number were executed – killings motivated by a constellation of […]

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‘TO HELL WITH GHOUTA’: SHOCKING LEAKED VIDEO REVEALS ASSAD’S CALLOUS RESPONSE TO GHOUTA SIEGE

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Sat 06 December 2025: Al Arabiya-released video shows ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad laughing off Ghouta with the words “to hell with it” to his advisor. In the video, which shows al-Assad driving in an unknown location in Syria, Luna al-Shibl asks the former president: “We are about to leave Ghouta, what will we say,” […]

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