Wed 06 August 2025: France has become a country with no area free of drugs, according to a report by the country’s anti-narcotics office OFAST, raising concerns about the scale of cocaine trafficking and its grip on French society. Described as a “white tsunami” by French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, the report warns of an […]
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Wed 06 August 2025: China has approved the ninth batch of applications from research institutions for borrowing lunar samples returned by the Chang’e-5 and Chang’e-6 Moon missions, state media reported Monday. The Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center, which operates under the China National Space Administration, released the approved list, said state-run Xinhua News Agency. […]
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Wed 06 August 2025: ◼️ Thin (blue) line of policing: South Africa’s police serves the ANC insiders, not the people – and a politicised leadership has effectively stopped policing various categories of crime, including fraud, corruption, and certain types of theft involving politically connected people, two researchers have warned. https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/crime/thin-blue-line-of-policing/ ————- ◼️ Soaring electricity prices […]
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Tue 05 August 2025: Petrol consumers will breathe a sigh of relief at the pumps this month, as the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) has announced a decrease in the price of fuel for the month of August. Those who use diesel and paraffin, however, will have to dig deeper into their pockets, […]
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Tue 05 August 2025: On Monday, Sudan alleged that the United Arab Emirates recruited Colombian mercenaries to support the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in their fight against the government-aligned Sudanese army. Since April 2023, the conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and triggered the […]
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Tue 05 August 2025: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer‘s “one in, one out” deal to return English Channel migrants to France will come into force on Tuesday, with detentions set to begin by the end of the week. The deal, which has now been approved by the European Commission, means the UK will be able to send people […]
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Tue 05 August 2025: Russian former President Dmitry Medvedev blamed NATO countries Monday for Moscow’s withdrawal from a moratorium on short- and medium-range nuclear missiles. “The Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement on the withdrawal of the moratorium on the deployment of medium- and short-range missiles is the result of NATO countries’ anti-Russian policy. “This is a […]
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Tue 05 August 2025: More than 10,000 European hotels are joining collective legal action against Amsterdam-based Booking.com to seek compensation for losses caused by the online travel agency’s use of so-called “best price” clauses. The clauses ban the hotels from offering rooms on their own websites at a lower rate and are seen by them […]
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Tue 05 August 2025: Focus on ‘zama zamas’ ignores the organised crime networks profiting from the trade, while a complex socio-economic legacy traps thousands of former mineworkers. As law enforcement agencies intensify crackdowns on illegal miners, known as zama zamas, a leading researcher argues that the focus on individual workers overlooks the highly organised criminal […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: Around 3,200 highly-skilled Boeing personnel decided to go on strike, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Union announced on Monday. The union said on X: “3,200 highly-skilled IAM Union members at Boeing went on strike at midnight because enough is enough.” It previously said its members working at Boeing voted on Sunday […]
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