ENGLAND’S LINEKER LEAVES BBC AFTER APOLOGISING FOR POST THAT DREW ANTI-SEMITISM COMPLAINTS

Mon 19 May 2025: Gary Lineker, a former England football captain who became the face of the sport on British TV, will leave the broadcaster after apologising for sharing a social media post about Zionism that drew complaints over anti-Semitism, Reuters reports. Lineker, 64, who scored 48 times for his country, moved into broadcasting after […]

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NETANYAHU’S PARTY SEEKS BILL TO LABEL QATAR ‘TERRORISM SPONSOR’ TO BLOCK ITS MEDIATION ROLE

Mon 19 May 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party has submitted a bill to the Knesset seeking to bar Qatar from mediating in negotiations involving Israel by officially labelling it a “state sponsor of terrorism.” According to the Hebrew-language newspaper Haaretz, Likud Knesset Member Moshe Saada introduced the bill, which targets Qatar’s role in […]

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WITHDRAWAL OF SA SOLDIERS IN DRC PROCEEDING ACCORDING TO PLAN

Mon 19 May 2025: The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has assured the public that the withdrawal of the Southern African Development Community Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (SAMIDRC) is currently underway and proceeding according to plan. This comes after a media report claimed that the South African soldiers were stranded in […]

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LEGAL HARASSMENT OF INDIAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA HAS REACHED A CRITICAL LEVEL: RSF AT DELHI PRESSER

Mon 19 May 2025: RSF also called for the immediate release of media professionals detained for doing their job and for the abusive legal proceedings against them to be dropped. New Delhi: The organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has noted a decline in the media economy and worsening conditions for journalism in India. In a press […]

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HUMANOID ROBOT MARKET PROJECTED TO NEARLY QUINTUPLE IN DECADE

Mon 19 May 2025: The humanoid robot market is expected to grow nearly fivefold over the next decade amid rising global competition and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, a sector representative told Anadolu. Meric Atalay, chairman of the Turkish Purchasing Professionals’ and Managers’ Association (TUSAYER), said that Türkiye must prepare for a shift […]

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‘FIGHT BACK’: PEDRO PASCAL URGES CANNES TO RESIST US POLITICAL PRESSURE

Mon 19 May 2025: Actor calls on filmmakers to ‘keep telling the stories, keep expressing yourself and keep fighting to be who you are’. Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal has called on members of the film industry to “fight back” and keep expressing themselves amid what he appeared to describe as a political climate of fear […]

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TURKISH PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES DISCOVERY OF NEW 75 BCM NATURAL GAS RESERVE IN BLACK SEA

Mon 19 May 2025: Turkiye has discovered a new natural gas reserve of 75 billion cubic meters (bcm) in the Black Sea, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday, Anadolu reports. “We have discovered a new natural gas reserve of 75 billion cubic meters in the field. With this amount, we will be able to meet […]

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EXPLAINER: TYPES OF MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION

Sun 18 May 2025: Misinformation is false or inaccurate information. Examples include rumors, insults and pranks. Disinformation is deliberate and includes malicious content such as hoaxes, spear phishing and propaganda. It spreads fear and suspicion among the population. Types of Misinformation and Disinformation: 1. Fabricated Content: Completely false content; 2. Manipulated Content: Genuine information or […]

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CALTECH DEVELOPS SMART BANDAGE FOR EARLY INFECTION DETECTION

Sun 18 May 2025: A next-generation smart bandage developed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) can analyze fluids from chronic wounds and detect infections days in advance. This “skin laboratory” is designed to accelerate wound healing and continuously monitor the patient. Led by Wei Gao, the team demonstrated in 2023 through animal studies that the bandage could […]

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