Sun 03 August 2025: International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan has faced escalating threats, political pressure, intelligence activity, and sexual misconduct allegations amid his investigation into Israeli war crimes, Middle East Eye (MEE) reported Friday. The report describes a coordinated campaign involving threats from British and US officials, alleged Mossad surveillance in The […]
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Sun 03 August 2025: A jury in Miami has ordered Tesla to pay $329 million in damages over a fatal 2019 crash involving its Autopilot system, according to reports Friday. The case centered around a deadly clash in Key Largo, Florida, where a Tesla Model S using Enhanced Autopilot struck two pedestrians, killing 22-year-old Naibel […]
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Sun 03 August 2025: Violence in prisons across England and Wales has increased over the past year, according to new figures released by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on Thursday. The latest safety in custody statistics show a 9% rise in overall assaults in the 12 months to March 2025, with 30,846 recorded incidents-the equivalent of 356 assaults per […]
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Sun 03 August 2025: The pyramid, located in the Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone, was one of the best-preserved remnants of the P’urhépecha Kingdom, the only empire never conquered by the Aztecs. The P’urhépecha culture still survives today. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) blamed recent extreme weather, noting that intense heat followed by drought created cracks in the […]
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Fri 01 August 2025: People may be inhaling more than 100 times the amount of microplastics previously estimated, with adults breathing in around 68,000 plastic particles per day from both indoor and outdoor air, researchers said in a new study. The findings, published in the journal PLOS One, highlight the underestimated scale of airborne microplastic […]
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Sat 02 August 2025: Epstein’s former girlfriend and one-time British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in prison, moved to minimum-security site in Texas. Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice in the abuse of underage girls by high-society sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved to a minimum-security facility in Texas, […]
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Sat 02 August 2025: Pakistan is set to import its first-ever oil shipment from the US after the South Asian country this week signed a trade deal with Washington. The country’s largest vertically integrated oil refining company, Cnergyico Pk Ltd, has finalized a deal with global energy trader Vitol Group to import 1 million barrels of US WTI […]
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Sat 02 August 2025: Millions of unemployed South Africans, many of whom survive on a Social Relief of Distress Grant government grant of R370 (about US$21) per month, are not able to pay for electricity and still afford food and shelter. In the working class community of Thembisa in South Africa’s industrial heartland of Gauteng, the local […]
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Sat 02 August 2025: The Commissioner of the Border Management Authority (BMA), Dr Michael Masiapato has noted a widely circulated message claiming that a new law, effective from May 2025, requires all persons born in South Africa to enter and exit the country solely using a South African passport, and that failure to comply will […]
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Image via Vessel Finder. Fri 01 August 2025: Following the #BlockTheBoat protest in Durban, pro-Palestine activists and a Member of Parliament are calling for greater government accountability on its commitments to Palestine. Pro-Palestinian activists are demanding increased government transparency and decisive action regarding South Africa’s trade and diplomatic relations with Israel, following a recent protest […]
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