Thu 30 October 2025: President Donald Trump declared on Thursday that he has directed the Defense Department to start nuclear weapons testing without delay. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately,” Trump wrote on […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: US President Donald Trump said Thursday that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed during their highly-anticipated bilateral meeting not to impose rare earth export controls that rattled global markets and prompted threats of retaliation from the US leader. Trump said he and the Chinese president agreed on an “outstanding group of […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: Regional countries express alarm as more evidence emerges of mass killings by paramilitary forces in el-Fasher. Scores of people have been killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a medical group and researchers. The RSF, […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: The European Union and several European countries urged de-escalation in Sudan on Wednesday following the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) seizure of El-Fasher, the capital of the Darfur region, Anadolu reports. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Commissioner Hadja Lahbib said in a joint statement that the targeting of civilians based on […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Public Works unveils plan to fix ‘half-built schools, ghost hospitals’ and blacklist failing contractors: Between 2016 and 2020, the Auditor-General found that the number of projects that missed deadlines grew sixfold, from 10% to 60%. Behind these figures lies a pattern of poor […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: Syria officially recognized Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state on Wednesday following a trilateral meeting in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, Anadolu reports. A Foreign Ministry statement said the meeting between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Kosovan President Vjosa Osmani focused on enhancing bilateral relations and […]
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Wed 29 October 2025: Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images appear to show mass killings in Sudan’s western city of el-Fasher. The fall of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has resulted in mass killings by the group, according to an analysis of satellite imagery viewed by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL). […]
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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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