Sun 04 May 2025: The Foreign Press Association Saturday called on Israel to allow news media “unrestricted” access to Gaza, off-limits to outside journalists operating independently since the war there began in October 2023. “We call on Israel to stop the never-ending delays, uphold the fundamental principles of press freedom and allow unrestricted entry for […]
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Sat 03 May 2025: “Cyber security” may sound like a far-off worry for big corporations or telcos, but that’s far from the case. Cyber security simply means the practice of safeguarding your sensitive data from unauthorised access, theft and damage. If you have any online accounts at all, you should know how best to protect them. That’s also […]
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Sat 03 May 2025: The CEO of Saudi Arabia’s futuristic city Neom launched a “comprehensive review” of the kingdom’s mega-project, signifying more belt-tightening to come with falling energy prices. One person familiar with the review told The Financial Times on Monday that the scope of several projects surrounding Neom was being reviewed due to “an […]
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Sat 03 May 2025: TikTok has been hit with a €530 million ($601 million) fine by Irish data protection authorities on Friday for breaching European privacy rules, marking it one of the largest penalties ever imposed under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The ruling follows a lengthy investigation by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), […]
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Sat 03 May 2025: People of Indian-administered Kashmir pray that the situation between India and Pakistan is “resolved without going to war,” the region’s top cleric said Friday, amid ongoing tensions since the April 22 attack which left 26 people dead. “We pray that the situation between India and Pakistan that is getting worse by […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: Dozens of trials on HIV ground to a halt in February after US President Donald Trump abruptly pulled crucial funding. Patrick Arbuthnot was browsing his emails on what seemed like a normal workday in his lab in Johannesburg when he saw a strange notification pop up. “Stop Work,” it read. Arbuthnot […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: US tariffs and Canada’s response could result in 68,100 fewer jobs in the Ontario province in 2025, according to a report Wednesday by the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario. The figure may increase to 119,200 next year and 137,900 jobs in 2029. The report contrasts a scenario with no tariffs versus […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging app, now boasts over 3 billion monthly users, as announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the company’s Q1 results call. Having reached 2 billion users in 2020, it joins an elite group, including Meta’s Facebook, in surpassing the 3 billion user mark. Because of its enormous user base, […]
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Fri 02 May 2025: Near a planet far, far away, astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings. Astronomers have found the clearest evidence yet that life might exist beyond the solar system, from the atmosphere of a planet 124 light years away from Earth, setting off rare […]
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Thu 01 May 2025: In 1948, as the foundations of the Israeli state were being laid upon the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (AFFFI), condemning the growing Zionist militancy within the settler Jewish community. “When a real and final […]
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