Wed 14 January 2026: The National Treasury has welcomed the removal of South Africa from the European Union’s list of High-risk Third Country Jurisdictions (EU List). This follows the delisting of South Africa from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) greylist or “list of countries under increased monitoring” and the United Kingdom’s list of countries […]
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Tue 13 January 2026: At its peak in the 1990s and 2000s, Manchester United was the reference point in professional club football around the globe. It set the commercial agenda, dominated the game domestically and projected power far beyond the pitch. That era now feels distant – not because ambition has faded, but because competence […]
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Tue 13 January 2026: More than 40 rights groups, charities, and unions on Monday rejected the British government’s “dangerous” plan to give the police new powers to effectively ban repeat protests, Anadolu reports. In a joint statement titled Defend the Right to Protest Civil Society, UK-based civil society organizations, including Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Greenpeace, Trades Union […]
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Tue 13 January 2026: Gold rose to a new all-time high of $4,610.83 an ounce on Monday, rising around 2.2%, as investors flocked to safe havens amid a flurry of geopolitical and policy shocks in recent days. After hitting the all-time high level, the price of gold was at around $4,608.2 per ounce as of […]
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Tue 13 January 2026: Government orders a sweeping ban on VPNs for two months in the disputed region, citing ‘threats to national security’. Basit Banday*, employed with an IT firm based in the southwestern Indian city of Pune, handles sensitive healthcare data of his company’s clients, ensuring they are safe from leaks and cyberattacks. Until […]
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Tue 13 January 2026: The Department of Health has urged parents and caregivers to immediately discontinue the use of the affected Nestlé NAN products, in accordance with the National Consumer Commission recall notice. The product (Special Pro HA Infant Formula 0-12 months, batch number 51660742F3 and best before date 15 December 2026) is intended for the […]
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Mon 12 January 2026: Ai, a “genius” chimpanzee who could recognise more than 100 Chinese characters and the English alphabet, has died aged 49, Japanese researchers said. Ai, which means love in Japanese, took part in studies on perception, learning and memory that advanced our understanding of primate intelligence, the Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human […]
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Mon 12 January 2026: Meta, the parent company of the US social media platform Facebook and Instagram, said it deactivated 544,052 accounts believed to have been held by users under the age of 16 in Australia following the country’s social media ban. On Dec. 10, Australia became the first country to implement a ban on […]
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Mon 12 January 2026: In 2025, governments around the world moved anti-smoking laws beyond bars and offices, introducing measures that restrict tobacco use in outdoor public spaces, tighten access to nicotine products and aim to prevent younger generations from ever starting to smoke. From the Maldives’ generational tobacco ban to France extending outdoor smoking restrictions, […]
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Mon 12 January 2026: Every few years, a familiar anxiety resurfaces in British public discourse: that sharia law is establishing a parallel legal system and threatening the sovereignty of English law. Those fears were reignited following Donald Trump’s recent speech to the UN, where he claimed that London wants “to go to sharia law”. Such claims ignore two […]
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