Tue 21 January 2025: The Israeli army Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, announced Tuesday that he will resign in March, citing military failure in preventing the 7 October Hamas attacks, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, Halevi said he notified Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defence Minister, Israel Katz that he intends to resign on […]
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Tue 21 January 2025: Food security in Nigeria is at a critical point and needs urgent attention. Over 26 million people out of an estimated population of 229.5 million faced acute hunger in the period June to August 2024. Around 84 million Nigerians – 37% of the total population – live below the poverty line. Poverty restricts households’ ability to purchase or produce […]
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Tue 21 January 2025: U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to lift the Biden administration’s freeze on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel in his first days in office, Walla News reported on Monday, citing an interview with the Israeli envoy to Washington. Trump is also expected to reverse sanctions the Biden administration imposed against Israeli settlers accused of violent […]
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Tue 21 January 2025: The group’s report comes as some of the world’s political and financial elite prepare for an annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland. Billionaires’ wealth globally grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, global advocacy group Oxfam International says, as some of the world’s political and financial elite prepare to […]
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Tue 21 January 2025: US President Donald Trump signed several executive orders Monday on his first day in office. “The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78 Biden-era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda and others,” an administration official announced during the signing event at the Capital One Arena in […]
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Mon 20 January 2025: A teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to the murder of three young girls during a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last summer. Axel Rudakubana, a British citizen born in Cardiff, Wales, faces multiple charges, including three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder, following […]
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Mon 20 January 2025: President Donald Trump was sworn in for a returning second term in office Monday, heralding a major shift in the US government widely expected to send shockwaves through American society and the world at large. “I, Donald John Trump do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President […]
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Mon 20 January 2025: US President-elect Donald Trump promised Sunday that he would declassify documents related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy and civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,” Trump told his supporters at the […]
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Mon 20 January 2025: Integrating Syria’s myriad armed groups into unified command structure is a priority of the new government. Syria’s new defence minister has said it would not be right for US-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc within the broader integrated Syrian armed forces. Speaking to the […]
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Mon 20 January 2025: The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) in Mpumalanga has announced the automatic cancellation of all fraudulent R370 COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments. The SRD grant is administered in terms of app-section 32 of the Social Assistance Act, 2004 (Act No. 13 of 2004) and is implemented with […]
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