Thu 06 February 2025: LGBTQ rights groups condemn latest executive order directed at transgender Americans. United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports. Under the order signed on Wednesday, federal government funding will be denied to educational institutes that allow trans girls […]
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Thu 06 February 2025: South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola on Thursday reaffirmed the country’s commitment to human dignity, equality, and democratic values, emphasizing its independent stance in global affairs. South Africa is “championing non-racialism and non-sexism while placing our constitution and the rule of law at the forefront,” Lamola said on X. His remarks […]
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Thu 06 February 2025: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the army on Thursday to prepare a plan to allow Palestinians to “voluntarily” leave the enclave. According to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Katz instructed the army “to prepare a plan to allow voluntary departure for Gaza residents, including special arrangements for exit by sea […]
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Thu 06 February 2025: Russian nuclear weapons could be used in response to aggression against Russia or Belarus if their sovereignty or territorial integrity is threatened, according to a security agreement between the two countries, which President Vladimir Putin submitted on Wednesday to the parliament for ratification. According to the treaty, Russia’s nuclear weapons can be deployed in response to the use of […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: The Pentagon announced Wednesday that the first group of 10 migrant detainees arrived at a detention facility in Guantanamo Bay following US President Donald Trump’s order to establish a detention center. “The Department of Defense announced the arrival of 10 high-threat illegal aliens to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba yesterday,” the Pentagon said in a statement. Yesterday, […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: South Korea and Australia barred officials in select departments on Wednesday from using Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot DeepSeek, Seoul-based Yonhap News reported. Access to the service has been blocked on computers linked to external networks in foreign, trade, and defense ministries, The Interior and Safety Ministry sent a notice Tuesday […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: Service members arrived over the weekend at Guantanamo Bay, where they’ll work to prepare the Navy base in Southeast Cuba for an influx of deported migrants. Marines with the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division boarded a KC-130J at Cherry Point Air Station in North Carolina on Sunday and […]
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Informal shacks in a majority-Black township are seen next to an upmarket private estate in Cape Town. Land and spatial inequality still plague South Africa 30 years after the end of apartheid [Nic Bothma/Reuters] Wed 05 February 2025: US president has threatened to cut funding to South Africa over alleged land grabs. But what’s the […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip “have no alternative” other than to flee the coastal enclave, US President Donald Trump said Tuesday, reiterating his demand that Egypt and Jordan host the displaced. “They have no alternative right now. I mean, they’re there because they have no alternative. What do they have? […]
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Wed 05 February 2025: The Democratic Republic of Congo called for the withdrawal of M23 rebels as well as Rwandan forces from the eastern city of Goma. “We need to see concrete action, what really this means is to have the evidence that this is not a cosmetic fix,” Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner told […]
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