Thu 22 May 2025: The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group and humanitarian aid foundation Islamic Relief’s US branch Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) have partnered to support the Global Islamic Fund for Refugees (GIFR). As part of the IsDB’s annual meeting in the Algerian capital Algiers, the two institutions signed an agreement Wednesday to provide sustainable […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: New research warns that runaway melting of Earth’s major ice sheets could cause significant sea level rise and force mass migration from coastal areas— even if global warming is limited to the widely accepted 1.5°C target. A team of international scientists aimed to determine a “safe limit” of global warming for […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: Headline consumer price index (CPI) inflation for April was 2.8%, slightly higher than March’s 2.7%, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has announced. The CPI increased by 0.3% month-on-month in April 2025. Inflation for food and non-alcoholic beverages (NAB) rose to 4.0%, the highest annual rate since September 2024 (4.6%). The monthly […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: For the first time in three years, government has proposed an inflation-linked increase to the general fuel levy. “For the 2025/26 fiscal year, this is the only new tax proposal that I am announcing. It means from 4 June this year, the general fuel levy will increase by 16 cents per […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: The United Nations agency for women stated on Monday that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s war began in October 2023. “That is one woman and one girl on average killed every hour in attacks by Israeli forces,” UN Women said in a statement. […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: A report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Poland’s National Research Institute (NASK) revealed Tuesday that 25% of jobs worldwide are potentially exposed to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), with clerical and highly digital occupations facing the highest vulnerability. The report, “Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure,” presented what […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: Statement from Biden’s office comes after US President Donald Trump expressed doubt over timing of diagnosis. Former United States President Joe Biden was not diagnosed with prostate cancer before last week, and received his “last known” blood test for the disease more than a decade ago, his office has said. The […]
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Wed 21 May 2025: Google on Tuesday said it was beefing up online searches with even more generative artificial intelligence, as it presses on with embracing AI despite fears for its ad-based business model. CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the company’s annual developers event, said Google’s search engine would feature a new AI mode, as […]
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Tue 20 May 2025: WASHINGTON: The core of human existence is consciousness, which includes the senses of sight, hearing, dreaming, imagining, feeling pain or pleasure, fear, love, and more. But exactly where in the brain is this located? Scientists and medical professionals have long been perplexed by that question. A recent study is providing new […]
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Tue 20 May 2025: British ultramarathoner William Goodge, aged 31, set a new world record for the fastest coast-to-coast run across Australia. He covered 3,800 kilometers in 35 days, starting at Cottesloe Beach in Perth on April 15 and ending at Bondi Beach in Sydney. Goodge surpassed the previous record by four days, averaging about […]
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