Wed 29 October 2025: On Tuesday, Russia’s SVR alleged that France is gearing up to send as many as 2,000 troops and officers to Ukraine. The core of this formation will consist of stormtroopers from the French Foreign Legion, predominantly from Latin American countries, it said in a statement. “Currently, legionnaires are already stationed in […]
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Wed 29 October 2025: ‘Whatever Brussels proposes usually gets implemented in compromise that waters it down, less ambitious, less big, less effective,’ says expert The EU’s “Drone Wall” security initiative faces potential setbacks as experts warn that disputes over funding, leadership, and strategy could hinder progress. Recently, Poland spotted nearly 20 suspected Russian drones, with […]
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Wed 29 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Massive cocaine bust: Preliminary investigations revealed that the drugs had been brought into South Africa from a neighbouring country and were destined for Cape Town in the Western Cape. During the search of the property, police discovered cocaine weighing about 80 kilogrammes hidden […]
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Wed 29 October 2025: The US president has addressed questions from reporters over the deadly Israeli attacks on Gaza, on board Air Force One as he travelled from Japan to South Korea. “As I understand it, they took out an Israeli soldier,” Trump told reporters. “So the Israelis hit back and they should hit back. […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: Sudan’s army chief and chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council said Monday that the military decided to withdraw from El-Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur region, to prevent further “systematic destruction and killing” of civilians by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In an address aired on state television, Abdel […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned Monday that countries would reject being asked to “enforce” peace in Gaza if deployed under US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan. “What is the mandate of security forces inside of Gaza? And we hope that it is peacekeeping, because if it’s peace enforcing, nobody will want […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: US President Donald Trump acknowledged Monday that he received a magnetic resonance imaging test during a recent hospital visit, but did not disclose the reason why doctors had ordered the MRI. “I did. I got an MRI. It was perfect,” Trump, 79, told reporters, responding to a reporter who asked what […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: The World Health Organisation says two years of fighting has more than doubled the number of people in Gaza who need mental health care, rising from about 485,000 to more than one million. Before Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023, UNICEF estimated about 500,000 children in Gaza needed mental […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ We won’t beg Trump: “When America did not support our struggle, we didn’t sit and cry, OR [Tambo] went to the Soviet Union and we got support, so it is the same thing happening today. When the West troubles us, we must know […]
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Mon 27 October 2025: A tsunami of outrage and solidarity has flooded social media following the scandalous arrest of Muslim journalist Sami Hamdi, with prominent Muslim voices demand his immediate release. Hamdi, a popular commentator across the Muslim world, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and had his visa revoked after being stopped […]
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