Mon 17 November 2025: Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity over her government’s violent crackdown on student-led protests last year. The interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has called the death sentence for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a “historic […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Ramaphosa to serve full term: The plan allegedly circulated in a letter among senior ANC members. It called for Ramaphosa’s removal and the disbandment of the NEC. The letter proposed a national task team led by Thabo Mbeki. https://independentpress.cc/ramaphosa-to-serve-full-term-despite-alleged-ouster-plot/2025/11/17/ ————- ◼️ South African speed lovers […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Details have emerged about the controversial scheme to take Palestinians out of Gaza, run by Al-Majd Europe. On Thursday morning, a chartered plane carrying 153 Palestinians from war-torn Gaza – many without the required travel documents – landed at an airport near Johannesburg, leaving South African officials “blindsided”. After nearly 12 […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Nine cases reported in Ethiopia’s Omo region, bordering conflict-wracked South Sudan, which has a fragile health system. Ethiopia has confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after nine cases were reported in the south of the country. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday commended the Ethiopian […]
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Sun 16 November 2025: The Africa CDC said it had recorded about 300,000 confirmed and suspected cases of cholera so far in 2025, a rise over last year. Africa is experiencing its worst outbreak of cholera in the past 25 years, with Angola and Burundi seeing renewed surges that suggest active transmission of the disease, […]
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Sun 16 November 2025: The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday urged UN member states to uphold their obligations under the Rome Statute and assist in the execution of outstanding arrest warrants, Anadolu agency reported. Presenting the ICC’s 2025 Annual Report to the UN, Judge Tomoko Akane told the UN General Assembly […]
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Sat 15 November 2025: The Union of Gaza Strip Municipalities warned Friday of the consequences of 700,000 tons of accumulated waste in random dumping sites, as municipalities are unable to provide even the minimum level of essential services due to severe shortages of fuel and equipment. Alaa Al-Batta, the union’s deputy head, told Anadolu that […]
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Sat 15 November 2025: The UN health agency warns that recent progress in tackling the disease is under threat due to a shortfall in critical aid. Tuberculosis deaths have fallen by 3 percent to 1.23 million people in 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. In its annual TB report published on Wednesday, the United […]
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Sat 15 November 2025: Russia on Wednesday announced the creation of an unmanned systems force specializing in drone warfare as a new branch in the military. “The Unmanned Systems Troops have been established in the Russian Armed Forces,” Sergey Ishtuganov, deputy head of the new force, said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. […]
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Sat 15 November 2025: US President Donald Trump said Friday he would ask for investigations into connections between late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and several prominent figures, including former President Bill Clinton. Posting through his US social media company Truth Social, Trump repeated his accusation that Democrats are pushing the “Epstein Hoax” to distract from […]
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