Sat 29 November 2025: Russia’s state communications watchdog said it is tightening restrictions on WhatsApp, claiming the US-owned platform violates Russian law and is being used to facilitate criminal activity, according to comments carried by the Tass news agency. Roskomnadzor said the messenger app “continues to violate” Russian legal requirements and alleged it is used […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Businessman Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala claims he paid the former police minister for protection and assistance with a police tender. Controversial businessman Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala has alleged he paid former police minister Bheki Cele R500,000. Matlala made the explosive claims while testifying from prison this week. He appeared before a parliamentary ad […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Rising cases of chronic stress could be down to a mismatch between modern living and our own biology, according to a new study. Colin Shaw from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and Daniel Longman from Loughborough University in the UK. They pulled together a wealth of evidence that suggests our […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Fri 28 November 2025: Archaeological excavations in the Mühlheim-Dietesheim region of Germany have revealed unexpected traces of blue pigment on a stone artifact dating back roughly 13,000 years, challenging established understandings of prehistoric art. Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark identified the blue residue on the stone as the mineral pigment azurite, marking the earliest known […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tel Aviv is not on a path toward peace with Damascus, claiming that the Yemeni Houthi group is active in Syria. “Israel is not moving toward peace with Syria because there are forces within its borders thinking about invading Golan towns,” Katz claimed during a […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday that all G20 members, including South Africa, should be invited to the next year’s summit in Florida. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin, Merz criticized the US administration’s absence from last weekend’s G20 summit in Johannesburg and Trump’s announcement that South Africa would not be invited to the […]
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Fri 28 November 2025: Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Thursday rejected calls for separation or federalism in Syria, saying the coastal region remains a “priority” for his administration. “We are focused on protecting the country from internal and external risks and on economic development,” Sharaa told a meeting in Latakia via video conference. Protests erupted in several cities […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: France‘s national health safety agency ANSES said Wednesday that current scientific evidence does not establish a causal link between mobile phone use and cancer, while calling for continued caution, particularly for children, as exposure patterns rapidly evolve. In a new opinion updating previous assessments from 2013 and 2016, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: A special judge court in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Thursday sentenced exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 21 years in prison in absentia in three corruption cases tied to alleged irregularities in allocating plots in the Purbachal New Town project. This marks the first corruption verdict against Hasina since she […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: Israeli Defence Minister Yisrael Katz has warned that military action against Lebanon will be “inevitable” if Hezbollah does not agree to disarm, in the clearest indication yet that Israel is preparing for the possibility of a new cross-border war. Speaking to Israeli media on Tuesday, Katz said that Israel “will not […]
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