Wed 05 February 2025: South Korea and Australia barred officials in select departments on Wednesday from using Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot DeepSeek, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported. Access to the service has been blocked on computers linked to external networks in foreign, trade, and defense ministries, The Interior and Safety Ministry sent a notice Tuesday […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: Service members arrived over the weekend at Guantanamo Bay, where they’ll work to prepare the Navy base in Southeast Cuba for an influx of deported migrants. Marines with the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division boarded a KC-130J at Cherry Point Air Station in North Carolina on Sunday and […]
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Informal shacks in a majority-Black township are seen next to an upmarket private estate in Cape Town. Land and spatial inequality still plague South Africa 30 years after the end of apartheid [Nic Bothma/Reuters] Wed 05 February 2025: US president has threatened to cut funding to South Africa over alleged land grabs. But what’s the […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip “have no alternative” other than to flee the coastal enclave, US President Donald Trump said Tuesday, reiterating his demand that Egypt and Jordan host the displaced. “They have no alternative right now. I mean, they’re there because they have no alternative. What do they have? […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: The Democratic Republic of Congo called for the withdrawal of M23 rebels as well as Rwandan forces from the eastern city of Goma. “We need to see concrete action, what really this means is to have the evidence that this is not a cosmetic fix,” Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner told […]
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Wed 05 January 2024: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday reaffirmed its stance that it will not normalize relations with Israel without the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, rejecting a claim by US President Donald Trump that Riyadh had dropped the demand. The Saudi Foreign Ministry issued a statement emphasizing that the kingdom’s position remains “firm […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: A series of terrorist attacks have killed at least 28 civilians, including women and children, and injured 45 others in Manbij in northern Syria since late December. Civilians, primarily women and children, have been among the casualties. Civilian areas, including kindergartens and shops, were targeted in eight attacks. The first attack […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: Over 900 people were killed in the last two weeks in the eastern city of Goma of the Democratic Republic of Congo amid fighting between M23 rebels and the government forces, the World Health Organization said. In a statement late Monday, the UN health agency said that around 2,880 injured people […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: Pope Francis, on Monday, condemned the deaths of children in bombings, emphasizing that nothing is more important than a child’s life and that killing children means denying the future, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking at the “Children’s Rights Summit” held in Vatican City, the Pontiff urged participants to find new ways to protect children […]
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Tue 04 February 2025: If a general election were held tomorrow, 25 percent of British voters would choose Reform, YouGov poll suggests. Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK Party is now the most popular political party in the United Kingdom, a new poll suggests, beating the Conservative Party and the governing Labour Party. The poll, published on Monday […]
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