Tue 05 November 2024: Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace has sold two tickets for its planned 2027 suborbital flight at 1.5 million yuan (approximately $210,000) each, offering passengers a five-minute experience of weightlessness. The company plans to expand ticket sales next month. According to national media reports, the tickets were sold last night through the e-commerce site […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: An independent investigative report on incidents at Pretoria High School for Girls has recommended that the principal and deputy principal responsible be charged with misconduct. The Gauteng MEC for Education, Matome Chiloane, on Monday released the independent investigative report which probed allegations of a culture of racism at the school and […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: Nigeria’s president has directed that all minors detained during protests against the rising cost of living in August be freed and treason charges against them dropped, Information Minister Mohammed Idris has said. “The president has directed that these children, these minors, be released immediately,” Idris said on Monday. At least 76 […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: Body language experts have been having a field day since the U.S. presidential debate. They want us to believe that it’s possible to tell what Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are thinking, but not saying, just by looking at their body and facial movements. As the election approaches, every move the […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump on Monday claimed his campaign is building a “record-breaking” coalition of Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan, saying they are drawn by his promise of peace. “We are building the biggest and broadest coalition in American Political History. This includes record-breaking numbers of […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: When the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was first formed in the 1950s, its aim was to counter international backlash after Israel’s massacre of Palestinians in the village of Qibya, and ensure there was no disruption in US funding to Israel. Decades later, as Israel carries out genocide in the […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: The UK launched its first government-backed four-day workweek trial on Monday, allowing over 1,000 employees to work fewer days without a pay cut. Seventeen businesses, including the British Society for Immunology and Crate Brewery, will test shorter schedules, with some opting for a nine-day fortnight model, according to the Guardian. An […]
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Tue 05 November 2024: At the time of writing, war is spreading throughout West Asia. Of course, this is widely understood as an outgrowth of Israeli expansion and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. This week’s guest is back on Downstream to provide a century’s worth of historical context to enrich the way in […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen since 29 May 2024 when elections […]
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Mon 04 November 2024: An autopsy conducted by Israeli forensic doctors found that Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar had not eaten for three days before his assassination on 16 October. According to Israel Hayom, the report said: “The results of the autopsy of Yahya Sinwar’s body showed that he did not eat anything during the last 72 hours […]
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