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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Mon 27 October 2025: Russia should focus on ending the war with Ukraine rather than testing missiles, US President Donald Trump said on Monday, a day after Moscow said it completed the test of its new nuclear-powered cruise missile Burevestnik. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One while traveling from Malaysia to Japan as part […]
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Mon 27 October 2025: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday acknowledged that the world body’s Security Council faces problems of legitimacy because its composition does not reflect the reality of today’s world. “It is clear the Security Council has a problem of legitimacy and the problem of effectiveness. Legitimacy, because its composition no longer corresponds to the reality of […]
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Mon 27 October 2025: Mali has suspended education nationwide for two weeks due to an ongoing fuel shortage, the country’s education minister announced Sunday.Amadou Sy Savane said on state-owned public broadcaster ORTM that all educational institutions across the West African country will suspend activities from Oct. 27 to Nov. 9 because of the crisis. Savane […]
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