Alaa Mousa, accused of crimes against humanity under former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime, arrives at a court in Frankfurt on June 16, 2025Tue 17 June 2025: Life sentence handed to Alaa Mousa highlights the ‘brutality of Assad’s dictatorial, unjust regime’. A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted […]
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Tue 17 June 2025: Experts call for a multi-faceted approach, drawing lessons from the nation’s historic public health battles. South Africa is facing a severe public health challenge as an obesity crisis places immense strain on the nation’s healthcare system. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than half of the adult population is now classified […]
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Mon 16 June 2025: Brazil’s Supreme Court ruling could lead to fines for social media platforms failing to remove certain user posts. Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that social media companies can be held accountable for some types of content published by users on their platforms. The decision could clear the way for the […]
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Mon 16 June 2025: Australian researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can decipher words and sentences from brainwaves detected by a wearable cap, opening up a new frontier in medical science, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Monday. It will not only help patients with cognition, but could also revolutionize how humans […]
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Mon 16 June 2025: Bitcoin’s price, recovering from the severe impact of the ongoing Iran-Israel military conflict, continued its rise on Monday. The largest cryptocurrency, which has recently approached its record level of $111,970, lost around 1% on Friday due to the tension in the Middle East. The latest escalation follows Israeli strikes Friday on […]
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Mon 16 June 2025: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has confirmed that South Africa has substantially completed all 22 recommended action items outlined in the Action Plan adopted when the country was placed on the organisation’s grey list in February 2023. South Africa was placed on the FATF grey list due to deficiencies in […]
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Sun 15 June 2025: New Delhi: Though much of the media and users on social media have spent the last two days speculating, little is actually known about what caused the Air India flight leaving Ahmedabad for London to crash shortly after take off on Thursday (June 12) afternoon, leaving all except one of the 242 […]
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Sun 15 June 2025: The emperor penguin population in Antarctica is declining “worse than the worst-case projections,” according to a new study released on Tuesday. The study, based on a new analysis of satellite imagery by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), found the penguins’ numbers declined 22% over a 15-year period in a key sector […]
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Sun 15 June 2025: Former England football captain David Beckham was awarded a knighthood on Friday as part of King Charles’ Birthday Honors List, recognizing his contributions to sport and charity. Beckham, 50, received the title of “Sir” more than two decades after captaining the national team and earning global fame through a career that […]
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Sat 14 June 2025: Moscow says Kyiv failed to return any prisoners in the latest exchange, as fighting continues on the ground. Russia has returned the bodies of 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers to Kyiv, marking one of the largest repatriations of remains since the war began more than three years ago. The return on Friday was made […]
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