Thu 12 June 2025: Scientists have identified a new dinosaur species, Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, which they say rewrites the evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs, the BBC reported on Wednesday. The discovery was made from two partial skeletons found in Mongolia in the 1970s and later housed in a museum collection, the BBC said, citing a scientific article published […]
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Thu 12 June 2025: Albert Ojwang’s death in Kenya marks a regional crackdown aiming to crush youth-led protests before they re-emerge. Last Friday, Albert Ojwang, a young blogger in the western Kenyan town of Migori, was arrested over a complaint by a senior police officer regarding a post on X and taken 350km (217 miles) […]
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Thu 12 June 2025: The South African Police Service (SAPS) has arrested a 47-year-old woman and a 48-year-old man in Bloubergstrand, in the Western Cape, for the alleged sexual abuse of their two daughters, aged three and eight. “The suspects face multiple charges, including the production of child sexual abuse material (commonly referred to as […]
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Thu 12 June 2025: Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, former land minister, was featured in Al Jazeera’s investigation, The Minister’s Millions. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen properties in the United Kingdom owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Bangladesh’s former Minister of Land, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal. The move follows legal requests from Bangladesh authorities […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has confirmed that South Africa is closely monitoring the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant, NB.1.8.1—also known as Nimbus—which has been linked to rising case numbers in several Asian countries. Speaking at the 4th Health Working Group meeting of the G20 in Johannesburg, Motsoaledi said the […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated, according to a new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population between 2010 and 2020. Christianity grew by 122 million members in that decade, but declined as an overall slice of the world’s population. Still, […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is assembling a top team of AI experts to develop “superintelligence,” a type of AI that outperforms human capabilities. Dissatisfied with Meta’s AI progress, Zuckerberg had invited AI researchers to his Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto homes as part of efforts to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: In an unprecedented conservation effort, 70 southern white rhinos traveled over 3,400 kilometers (2,112 miles) from South Africa to Rwanda via truck and Boeing 747, marking the largest rhino translocation ever recorded. As part of a rewilding program, the rhinos were moved in two groups of 35, first by air and […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Israeli finance minister ends waiver that Palestinian banks rely on to operate after Western sanctions announced. Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has cancelled a waiver that Palestinian banks rely on to operate hours after five Western governments announced he faced sanctions, along with fellow ultra-nationalist Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, for inciting […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: A British soldier in Kenya has been arrested on rape allegations, the UK defence ministry said Sunday, confirming a BBC report. “We can confirm the arrest of a service person in Kenya,” a ministry spokesperson told AFP, adding that no further comment would be made while the matter was being investigated. […]
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