Fri 24 October 2025: China’s Communist Party refrains from direct mention of the US trade war, but stresses ‘consolidating national security’. China’s ruling Communist Party has said it will focus on speeding up self-reliance in science and technology, after a four-day meeting that approved a draft of the party’s next five-year development plan. China faces “profound […]
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Fri 24 October 2025: The state-linked daily Jomhouri Eslami, which operates under the supervision of a representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, described Hamas’s October 7 attack as a mistake that undermined anti-Israel movements in the region. “Contrary to many analyses and comments, the Al-Aqsa Storm operation was a mistake,” the paper wrote in […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: Mali’s interim president fired three senior commanders in the armed forces, a cabinet meeting report showed on Wednesday. President Assimi Goita replaced the deputy general chief of staff, the head of military security and the ground forces’ chief of staff, the document said. AFP news agency reports that the three were […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: North Korea declared on Thursday that a hypersonic weapon test carried out the day before serves as “clear proof” of its ongoing enhancement of defensive technological prowess. The test, conducted by the Missile Administration of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, was overseen by Pak Jong Chon, secretary of the Central […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: The European Union has passed its latest package of sanctions on Russia, the bloc’s foreign policy chief announced on Thursday. “We just adopted our 19th sanctions package. It targets Russian banks, crypto exchanges, entities in India and China, among others,” Kaja Kallas wrote on the US social media company X. The […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: A UN Population Fund official warns that 11,500 pregnant women are among the one in four Palestinians currently starving in war-devastated Gaza. Andrew Saberton said “starvation is particularly catastrophic” for both mothers and their newborn children, with premature and low birth weight babies now making up about 70 percent of newborns […]
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Thu 23 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Zuma to address media: The briefing comes a day after the former president was ordered by the Gauteng High Court to repay R28.9 million with interest that the government spent on his legal fees. Wednesday after it ruled that he was personally liable […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Syrian civil defense teams on Tuesday retrieved the remains of 20 people from a mass grave east of the city of Douma in the Damascus countryside, local media said, Anadolu reports. The state-run Al-Ikhbariya channel, citing a civil defense statement, said the remains were found at a site in the Tal al-Sawan […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: The Kremlin said that Russia will be represented at a high level at the two-day summit scheduled for November. The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not travel to South Africa for a G20 summit in Johannesburg on November 22-23, but that Russia would be represented at […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Over 20% of the EU population faced poverty or social exclusion risks in 2024, per Eurostat’s Friday report. Five regions had rates over twice the EU average, with French Guiana topping the list at 59.5%, followed by Calabria (48.8%) and Campania (43.5%) in southern Italy, and Spain’s Melilla and Ceuta, each […]
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