Wed 12 August 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ SA should only have 15 ministers: South Africa’s government should have significantly fewer departments and ministers, with the ideal number being 15. The country currently has 32 national departments. This would save the country a significant amount of money and bring South […]
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Wed 12 August 2026: Venezuela, which ended relations 17 years ago over Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, has strengthened ties with Israel-allied Washington since the U.S. captured President Nicolas Maduro in January, pushing it away from its historic alignment with Iran. Venezuela’s government, now led by Interim President Delcy Rodriguez, said an Israeli humanitarian […]
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Tue 11 August 2026: The South African Weather Service (SAWS) says South Africa will experience typical winter conditions throughout the week, with a cold front supported by an upper cut-off low. The weather service said on Tuesday that wet, very cold and windy conditions can be expected over the southern parts of the Free State, […]
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Tue 11 August 2026: US President Donald Trump reportedly carried out a highly secretive plane switch during his visit to Türkiye last month after American intelligence received what officials described as a credible threat linked to Iran. According to reports by The Washington Post and The New York Times, Trump was publicly expected to leave […]
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Tue 11 August 2026: Rescue teams in Colombia are continuing a desperate search for survivors after the country was struck by its strongest earthquake of the century, leaving at least 132 people dead and causing extensive destruction across several regions. The magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck on Monday, with some of the worst damage reported in […]
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Tue 11 August 2026: More than two-thirds of England is now officially in drought after the country recorded its driest July since records began in 1836. The East Midlands, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, Kent and East Sussex, and Solent and the South Downs were moved into drought status on Monday. They join around half of England […]
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Tue 11 August 2026: A criminal court in Damascus on Tuesday sentenced former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher to death in absentia after convicting them of crimes against humanity and other offenses, the SANA news agency reported. The Fourth Criminal Court also sentenced Assad’s cousin Atef Najib, the former head of the […]
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Tue 11 August 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Seventy years after South Africa’s women’s march, the struggle is not over: Nowhere is that tension more visible than in South Africa’s continuing crisis of gender-based violence. South African police recorded 9,782 reported rapes between January and March 2026, along with 12,590 […]
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Tue 11 August 2026: The State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas issued to foreign nationals during President Donald Trump’s term, according to a fact sheet released Monday. The department said the majority of the revocations followed law-enforcement encounters involving criminal activity. Other grounds cited included visa violations, fraud, calls for violence and national-security […]
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Mon 10 August 2026: A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake has struck western Colombia and neighbouring countries, prompting widespread evacuations. The earthquake struck on Monday near the municipality of San Jose del Palmar in Colombia’s Choco region, about 400km (250 miles) west of the capital, Bogota, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Colombia’s geological […]
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