Sat 14 June 2025: – ‘The next Ronaldo, Messi, Michael Jordan will be in esports. That goes without a doubt,’ says Orlando Carlo Calumeno, chairman of Türkiye’s first esports club – Industry forecasts estimate that this year, the global esports audience will surpass 640M, with 318M dedicated fans and 322M casual viewers ISTANBUL What if, […]
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Sat 14 June 2025: Nigeria accounts for the largest volume of detected pangolin scales illegally traded from Africa. Between 2010 and 2021, 190,000kg of scales – representing nearly 800,000 African pangolins – were seized in shipments linked to Nigeria, despite a ban on international trade. Pangolins are scaly mammals found across Asia and Africa. They are considered the world’s most […]
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Sat 14 June 2025: The Department of Agriculture is currently assessing the possibility of implementing regionalisation for chicken imports from Brazil to ensure local demand is met without compromising biosecurity. This follows South Africa’s suspension of imports of live poultry, eggs, and fresh (including frozen) poultry meat from Brazil after an outbreak of highly pathogenic […]
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Sat 14 June 2025: The price of gold rose sharply on Friday amid the military confrontation between Israel and Iran. Israel began its military operation early Friday, targeting Iran’s nuclear and military facilities and killing its top military commanders and scientists. The attacks continued until Friday night, with cities such as Tehran, Natanz, Tabriz, and […]
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Fri 13 June 2025: Unemployment in the UK rose in April to the highest level in almost four years, official figures showed, as tax increases introduced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves added to a broader slowdown in the jobs market. In a blow for the chancellor before Wednesday’s spending review, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) […]
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Fri 13 June 2025: The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has warned the public to remain cautious when dealing with service providers claiming they are licensed, especially as cannabis dispensaries continue to expand. “SAHPRA has learned that individuals and companies are operating unethically by presenting falsified SAHPRA licences to gain public trust and […]
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Fri 13 June 2025: Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 B.C.E. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels. You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony of mining life. Then one afternoon, you witness a fellow worker doing something remarkable. With an odd-looking contraption, he […]
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Fri 13 June 2025: After 20 months of genocide on the Gaza Strip, Israel is suffering from an acute manpower shortage and has turned to women to replace key roles. Prior to Israel’s assault on the besieged Gaza strip, female soldiers were largely confined to duties such as guarding borders and staffing checkpoints across the illegally occupied […]
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Thu 12 June 2025: CAGE International has filed a formal legal application with the UK Home Secretary to remove Hamas from the government’s list of proscribed organisations, in a case described as a pivotal defence of political speech and civil liberties in Britain. The submission, filed on 2 June, was not made on behalf of […]
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Thu 12 June 2025: You may have come across those “what I eat in a day” videos on social media, where people – usually conventionally attractive influencers wearing activewear – list everything they consumed that day. They might seem like harmless fun but in fact they can reinforce dangerous ideas about food, weight and body […]
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