Wed 17 December 2025: Scientists say up to 4,000 glaciers could melt annually if global warming is not curbed. The world could lose thousands of glaciers each year over the coming decades unless global warming is curbed, leaving only a fraction remaining by the end of the century, scientists warn. A scientific study published on Monday in […]
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Wed 17 December 2025: US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday a “total and complete blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, calling the Maduro government a “foreign terrorist organization.” “Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump wrote on his social media platform […]
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Wed 17 December 2025: The Israeli army warned of “mass personnel exodus” amid a surge in resignation requests by officers and soldiers, local media said Tuesday, Anadolu reports. The Israeli army is suffering from a “mass exodus of officers and non-commissioned officers after they submitted resignation requests,” the daily Yedioth Ahronoth said. “So far, there have […]
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Wed 17 December 2025: Myanmar’s military junta has declared that detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health, countering growing concerns over the condition of the ousted pro-democracy icon following the 2021 coup. “Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health,” stated a post on the junta-controlled Myanmar Digital News on […]
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Wed 17 December 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Deportation orders for illegal Kenyan ‘volunteers’ at US ‘refugee’ centre: The Kenyans were working for an intermediary organisation processing so-called “Afrikaner refugees” and were in the country on a 90-day tourist visa when they were apprehended by the authorities. Their initial visa applications […]
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Tue 16 December 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday to celebrate the Jewish Hanukkah holiday. In a statement, the Jerusalem Governorate denounced Netanyahu’s visit to the mosque’s Western Wall (Al-Buraq Wall) “a new provocative move.” The Al-Buraq Wall, called by Jews as the Western […]
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Tue 16 December 2025: South Africa is in talks with Russian authorities to ensure the return of its citizens who were lured for jobs but ended up fighting alongside Russian troops in the ongoing Ukraine conflict, an official said Monday. Last month, South African police launched an investigation into allegations that Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, former President […]
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Tue 16 December 2025: Investigators say the deadly Bondi Beach attack is being treated as ‘terrorism’ after evidence of ISIL influence found. The Australian police say the two men accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that killed 15 people were “inspired” by the ISIL (ISIS) group. Police also […]
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Tue 16 December 2025: Exiled punk band says its members are proud to be branded ‘extremists’ and hits back at Putin as an ‘aging sociopath’. A Moscow district court has designated Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot as an extremist organisation, according to the state TASS news agency. The exiled group’s lawyer, Leonid Solovyov, told […]
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Tue 16 December 2025: Lawyers for US President Donald Trump say the BBC caused him overwhelming reputational and financial harm. United States President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $10bn from the BBC over a documentary that edited his speech to supporters before the US Capitol riot in 2021. The lawsuit, filed in […]
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