Mon 14 April 2025: Around 50 hippos have died due to an anthrax outbreak in Virunga National Park, Africa’s oldest national park. The dead animals were found floating in a river south of Lake Edward, near the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda. Park director Emmanuel De Merode. Anthrax, caused by […]
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Mon 14 April 2025: Patients with advanced skin cancer in England will be fast-tracked into a new cancer vaccine trial, the National Health Service (NHS) said Monday. The NHS said in a statement that the needle-free injection, administered for up to two years, works by enhancing the immune system’s response – helping it recognize, attack […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema has been disqualified from this year’s general election and all by-elections for the next five years after refusing to sign a new electoral code of conduct. Ramadhani Kailima of the Independent National Electoral Commission made the announcement in the capital Dodoma on Saturday. “The electoral code […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: A new legal document submitted in a United States court has revealed that at least 100 individuals in India were targeted by the Pegasus spyware during a WhatsApp hacking operation in 2019. This figure places India as the second-most affected country globally, as per a report by Medianama published on Thursday. […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: A website is using AI to scrape and compile photos from the internet, revealing where and when they were posted. This has sparked widespread concern, with many labeling it “creepy” and “disturbing” due to its potential for misuse and invasion of privacy. The site called PimEyes uses AI to hunt down […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: The AFP news agency is reporting that most military sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon have been placed under the Lebanese army’s control. The agency cited a source close to the Lebanese armed group. “Out of 265 Hezbollah military positions identified south of the Litani, the movement has ceded about […]
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Sun 13 April 2025: The European Commission’s coordinator on combating anti-Muslim hatred said on Saturday that racism and Islamophobia are seemingly on the rise in a number of member states. “We know that since the 7th of October (2023), in particular, anti-Muslim hate crime has increased, for instance, by 140% in Germany,” Marion Lalisse told […]
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Sat 12 April 2025: President Donald Trump’s tariffs and fueling tensions with China brought economic uncertainties, destabilizing the safe-haven status of US bonds. Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, announced April 2 that ranged between a 10% base rate to 50%, gave rise to volatility in global markets and shook the US bond market of around $29 trillion. […]
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Sat 12 April 2025: A new poll revealed that the majority of Americans hold an unfavorable opinion of US President Donald Trump, with support declining over economic concerns and his recent trade policies. “Americans view Trump much less favorably personally than they did at the start of his term. 54% of Americans have a very […]
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Sat 12 April 2025: A vast lake once covered part of Saudi Arabia’s Rub’ Al-Khali desert researchers have found, in a discovery that challenges conventional views of the Arabian Peninsula as eternally arid. The findings have been published in Communications Earth & Environment. They reveal that around 9,000 years ago, a 1,100km² lake — comparable in […]
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