Thu 17 July 2025: ‘A tragedy and a calamity have befallen us,” the Wasit province governor says. At least 61 people have been killed and several more are missing in a huge fire at a hypermarket in Kut city in eastern Iraq, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry. The ministry said on Thursday that 14 charred […]
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Thu 17 July 2025: Residents in the nearby fishing town of Grindavik and guests at a luxury geothermal spa resort are evacuated. The Sundhnukur volcano has erupted near Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, the 12th volcanic eruption in the North Atlantic island nation since 2021, the Icelandic Meteorological Office says. The agency said in a statement on […]
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Thu 17 July 2025: U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on South Africa could cause around 100,000 job losses, with the agriculture and automotive sectors hardest-hit, central bank governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Wednesday. Kganyago told local radio station 702 that the impact of the 30% tariff, which Africa’s biggest economy faces from August 1, could […]
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Wed 16 July 2025: The Trump administration has faced a raft of legal challenges as it seeks to radically restrict immigration to the US. A United States federal judge has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump cannot block approved refugees from entering the country under the guise of a wider travel ban. US District […]
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Wed 16 July 2025: A British-Israeli defence lawyer at the International Criminal Court linked to a Netanyahu adviser delivered message to Karim Khan. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has been warned that if arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant are not withdrawn, he […]
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Wed 16 July 2025: The number of children engaged in child labor has fallen by more than 100 million since 2000, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said Wednesday, citing new UN data. Despite this progress, the global goal of eliminating child labor by 2025 remains “out of reach,” the ILO said on X. “Decent work […]
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Wed 16 July 2025: Britain set up a secret scheme to bring thousands of Afghans to the UK after their personal details were disclosed in a data leak, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban after their return to power in Afghanistan. The data breach and relocation programme were made public on Tuesday after a […]
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Wed 16 July 2025: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned on Wednesday that countries such as Brazil, China and India could be hit very hard by secondary sanctions if they continued to do business with Russia. Rutte made the comment while meeting with senators in the U.S. Congress the day after President Donald Trump announced new weapons for […]
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Wed 16 July 2025: Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, has reaffirmed her commitment to strengthening and enhancing the campaign against bogus colleges ahead of the 2026 academic year application season. Gondwe led a two-day intergovernmental awareness campaign in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, in East London, Eastern Cape, on Monday and […]
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Tue 15 July 2025: The WHO chief on Monday called on world leaders to prioritize HIV prevention and embrace meaningful partnerships in an effort to achieve the goal of ending AIDS. Addressing the International AIDS Society conference on HIV Science in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said governments, scientists, civil society and […]
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