Thu 20 November 2025: The Department of Health’s National Essential Medicines List Committee (NEMLC) has approved the addition of the recently registered injectable lenacapavir to the Essential Medicines List (EML). The department said the decision aligns with the department’s mandate to ensure access to safe, effective, high-quality, and affordable medicines for all citizens in the […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: Israeli public broadcaster sources reported on Monday evening that security negotiations between Israel and Syria have hit a dead end, with widening differences between Damascus’s demands and Tel Aviv’s conditions. According to the sources, Israel rejected Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa’s request to withdraw its forces from all areas it occupied following […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: Cold weather health warnings have been activated across much of the UK as temperatures drop sharply in the year’s first major cold spell. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Monday placed the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber under an amber cold health alert from midday on […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: Hundreds of career Israeli soldiers, including senior officers, have submitted requests for early retirement, deepening the military’s manpower crisis as the army struggles with shortages during its war on the Gaza Strip, local media said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. According to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth, representatives from the army’s Personnel Administration told the […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: A Sri Lankan influencer who boasts a lavish lifestyle on his social media claims to have made his fortune through racist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant posts aimed at British audiences. Sri Lankan influencer Geeth Sooriyapura has made hundreds of thousands of pounds by flooding British audiences with Facebook ads that push far […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: A US federal judge has ruled that tech giant Meta is not a monopoly in the social networking market, dismissing an antitrust case brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the company’s acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram. Washington District Court Judge James Boasberg said the FTC failed to prove its […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: Iran is facing its most severe water crisis in more than six decades. Major dams supplying drinking water to provinces with millions of residents are nearly empty, and groundwater reserves have been depleted. Many cities have endured an entire autumn without a single drop of rain. In the capital, Tehran, and in Mashhad, the country’s second-largest city, in […]
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Wed 19 November 2025: New international student enrollment at US colleges and universities fell sharply this year amid mounting visa delays and the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown, according to new data released Monday. The Institute of International Education (IIE) reported a 17% drop in new international enrollees for fall 2025 — the largest non-pandemic decline in more than a […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: E-hailing APP Providers working with e-hailing operators in Gauteng have been urged to legally register their applications in line with Section 66(A) of the National Land Transport Amendment Act, 2009 (Act No. 5 of 2009). “[The Act] requires e-hailing platform providers to register their digital applications (Apps) with the National Department […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: On Tuesday, Bitcoin dropped over 5.2%, hitting its lowest point in seven months amid macroeconomic concerns, especially those surrounding the US Federal Reserve’s future interest rate decisions. The largest cryptocurrency was trading at $90,100 at 0600GMT, around its weakest level since April. It also briefly sank below the $90,000 level. Data […]
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