Sat 17 May 2025: More than 295 million people faced acute hunger in 2024, with the outlook ‘bleak’ due to funding cuts for aid efforts. Global hunger hit a new high last year with the outlook for 2025 “bleak,” according to a United Nations-backed report. Acute food insecurity and child malnutrition rose for a sixth […]
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Sat 17 May 2025: The 34th Arab League Summit began on Saturday in Baghdad, with Israel’s war on Gaza dominating the talks besides other regional issues. It is Iraq’s fourth summit and first since 2012. The summit began with a speech by Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al-Zayani, as Manama held the presidency of the 33rd […]
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Sat 17 May 2025: Despite claims that HIV testing and monitoring across South Africa have dropped following the withdrawal of US funding, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has dismissed suggestions that the country’s HIV/AIDS programme is falling apart. The Minister was responding to reports which stated that services have declined after cuts to the President’s […]
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Sat 17 May 2025: The personal wealth of Britain’s King Charles III personal wealth has jumped by £30 million ($40 million) to £640 million in the last year, making him as rich as former prime minister Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata Murphy, according to The Sunday Times Rich List. Charles, who acceded to the throne in 2022, ranks joint 238th […]
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Fri 16 May 2025: A US jury sentenced Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture in New York, to 25 years in prison on Friday following his conviction for attempted murder and assault, US media reported. Matar, a dual US-Lebanese citizen, was found guilty in February 2025 after an […]
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Fri 16 May 2025: A new study revealed that 40% of Israelis are considering leaving the occupied territories, amid a grim picture for the future driven by growing insecurity following Hamas’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, political instability as well as economic hardship. According to a new research from Ci Marketing published on Wednesday, around 40% of […]
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Fri 16 May 2025: Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) claims attack on Djibo military outpost, SITE Intelligence Group says. An al-Qaeda affiliate has claimed it killed 200 soldiers in an attack on a Burkina Faso army base this week, according to an NGO that tracks armed groups’ online activity. The base in the northern […]
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Fri 16 May 2025: Israel is expanding the “buffer zone” in Gaza, which now accounts for approximately 35% of the enclave’s total area of 360 square kilometers, an Israeli broadcaster said in its report on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. “While international discourse remains preoccupied with whether Israel will carry out a full-scale ground invasion in Gaza, the reality […]
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Fri 16 May 2025: Trump administration welcomes first batch of white Afrikaners while US cuts off refugee programmes to other countries. Johannesburg, South Africa – On a chilly Sunday evening in Johannesburg, OR Tambo International Airport was filled with tourists and travellers entering and exiting South Africa’s busiest airport. On one side of the international […]
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Fri 16 May 2025: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday pledged a renewed crackdown on migrant smuggling gangs during a visit to Albania, highlighting the country’s commitment to combating illegal crossings to Britain. Speaking to broadcasters in Albania, Starmer defended the UK’s financial investment abroad aimed at preventing irregular migrants from reaching the north […]
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