Sat 16 August 2025: South Korea’s military shrank by 20% in the past six years to 450,000 troops, largely due to a sharp drop in the population of males of enlistment age for mandatory service in the country with the world’s lowest birthrate, a report said on Sunday. The dramatic decline in the pool of […]
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Sat 16 August 2025: The challenge brought on by the trade group alleges that the age verification law is a violation of free speech The United States Supreme Court has declined to put on hold a Mississippi law requiring that users of social media platforms verify their age and that minors have parental consent. The […]
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Sat 16 August 2025: Police in England and Wales will be encouraged to disclose the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile or sensitive cases UK police forces could start disclosing the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile or sensitive cases under new guidance from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC). According to […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: Japan will use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to teach the Japanese language to children with foreign roots. The move comes amid a shortage of teachers who can speak languages such as Portuguese, Chinese, and Spanish, Kyodo News reported on Thursday. Guidelines are expected to be prepared to use AI to adopt […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: Air Canada will begin cancelling its flights on Thursday ahead of flight attendants’ potential strike, aiming to ensure an orderly shutdown of operations, the airline announced. The first cancelled flight will be on Thursday, the airline confirmed, adding that as of Friday, the flight cancellations will increase, leading to a full […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: As the UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting. Each year, the world produces about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste – more than the combined weight of all the people on Earth. Just 9 percent of it is recycled, and one study predicts […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the most popular party in the country, according to a striking new poll published Tuesday. If a national election were now held, 26 percent of Germans would vote for the AfD, according to a poll carried out by the Forsa Institute for Social […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has expressed concern following an upsurge in what appears to be unlawful deductions by financial service providers targeting social grants beneficiaries. In a statement on Thursday, the agency said it has been inundated with enquiries from its beneficiaries, stating that their grant money […]
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Thu 14 August 2025: A criminal hacker group has obtained the personal data of tens of thousands of holidaymakers from Italian hotels, collected from ID documents required at check-in. The group, called Mydocs, has been offering around 70,000 documents for sale online in recent days, Italian police said on Wednesday. The breach affected high-end hotels in cities such […]
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Thu 14 August 2025: The long-awaited verdict on the Malegaon blast of 2008 was delivered by a special court in Mumbai. The judgement has acquitted all seven accused in the Malegaon blasts case, which came as a blow to the victims and celebrations to the Hindutva camp. Many were anticipating this type of verdict and […]
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