Thu 12 March 2026: Here’s what’s happening in *South Africa today:* 👇🏼 ◼️ One loaf, one vote? In a video circulating on social media, party volunteers can be seen with a tray of loaves of bread and handing them out to the community. One of the volunteers can be heard saying: We are here from […]
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Wed 11 March 2026: Kharg Island, a scrubby stretch of land in the northern Gulf, roughly 30 km off Iran’s coast in Bushehr province, is far more significant than its size suggests. The 20-square-kilometre island functions as Iran’s principal oil export terminal and handles almost all of Iran’s crude exports. It collects oil coming by pipeline from Iran’s […]
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Wed 11 March 2026: Global oil prices climbed sharply as the ongoing Israeli-US war on Iran continues to rattle energy markets and raised concerns over crude supplies. The international benchmark, Brent North Sea crude, rose by 5.1 percent to reach $92.23 per barrel during trading. Meanwhile, the main US benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, recorded an […]
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Wed 11 March 2026: Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was reportedly injured in his legs during the opening day of US-Israeli strikes on the country, according to reports by The New York Times citing both Israeli and Iranian sources. Khamenei, 56, was announced as the successor to his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed […]
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Wed 11 March 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ United States reveals five demands for SA: Speaking at the Biznews Conference in Hermanus, Bozell said that he has been in the country in his official capacity for three-and-a-half weeks and has already learned of the complexity of “the situation” here. However, […]
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Tue 10 March 2026: The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Saturday that more than 52,000 Indians have safely returned to India from the Gulf region between March 1 and 7, as the government continues to monitor the evolving situation in West Asia. In an update, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the government is […]
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Tue 10 March 2026: The Trump administration is mulling a ground operation to retrieve Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, according to a media report published on Monday. The highly enriched uranium is believed to be sitting in a storage facility deep underground, according to military officials who spoke to CNN. The officials said that US President Donald Trump’s […]
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Tue 10 March 2026: Afghanistan faces compounding crises as regional instability threatens to push the country further toward collapse, a senior UN official warned Monday. “The conflict with Pakistan has had punishing human and economic costs,” Georgette Gagnon, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s (UNAMA) deputy special representative for Afghanistan, said during a UN Security […]
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Tue 10 March 2026: Australia will deploy a long-range military aircraft and missiles to the Gulf region, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday that the move aims to help protect Australian citizens during the ongoing conflict. Speaking to reporters in Canberra, Albanese said that Australia will send an E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft to the […]
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Tue 10 March 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ South Africa risks invasion: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva warned President Cyril Ramaphosa to enhance defence cooperation, highlighting both countries’ vulnerabilities to foreign invasion. “I don’t know if comrade Ramaphosa realises that if we don’t prepare ourselves in terms of defence, […]
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