Mon 11 August 2025: Super featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and lightweight Hiromasa Urakawa, both 28, fought on the same card in Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall on August 2. Two boxers in Japan have died from brain injuries they incurred in separate bouts during the same event in Tokyo, officials said. Both were later rushed to hospital where […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: First national convention to kick off this week amidst funding debates and concerns over rushed planning Preparations for South Africa’s inaugural National Convention are moving forward this week, despite significant controversy, the withdrawal of several prominent legacy foundations, and lingering questions over its budget. The convention, scheduled to begin on Friday, […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an audition, where he was abducted by criminals and taken to a scam centre in Myanmar. Wang was reported missing and, within […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: Manila says a Chinese navy vessel collides with one from its own coastguard while chasing a Philippine patrol boat. China’s coastguard says it has expelled Philippine vessels from waters around the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea while Manila reports a collision in the confrontation. The Philippine boats were […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: Mali has arrested around 20 soldiers suspected of wishing to overthrow the government of President Assimi Goita, sources told AFP on Sunday. “Since three days ago, there have been arrests linked to an attempt to destabilise the institutions. There have been at least around 20 arrests,” a Malian security source told AFP. […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: The acting chief of US space agency NASA is reportedly set to unveil a directive this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, in a bid to boost US space dominance amid growing competition from China and Russia. According to internal documents obtained by Politico, NASA will seek proposals from private industry […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: With the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC 5.2) on Plastic Pollution underway in Geneva, Switzerland, South Africa has reaffirmed its support for a legally binding global treaty to tackle plastic pollution. Plastic pollution is already harming communities, economies and ecosystems – from land to rivers to oceans. “Plastic […]
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Sun 10 August 2025: WhatsApp banned more than 6.8 million accounts linked to scam operations in the first half of this year, its parent company Meta said in a statement Tuesday. “As part of our ongoing proactive work to protect people from scams, WhatsApp detected and banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to scam centers,” the company said. […]
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Sun 10 August 2025: New research showed that Britain’s King George IV, who ruled for a decade until 1830, personally profited from enslaved labour on Grenadian plantations, a finding that experts say heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery. Independent scholar Desirée Baptiste uncovered a 1823-24 document at the National […]
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Sun 10 August 2025: Pakistan on Saturday rejected an Indian claim to have shot down six Pakistani aircraft, including five fighter jets, during May’s four-day conflict between the South Asian nuclear-armed neighbors. The claim was “implausible” and “ill-timed,” said Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif in a statement. “Not a single Pakistani aircraft was hit or […]
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