Sat 15 June 2024: Cape Town, South Africa — Late-night negotiations and an eleventh-hour agreement set the stage for the formation of South Africa’s first ever coalition government on Friday, with President Cyril Ramaphosa at its head. The multiparty coalition signed on its agreement only on Friday, as members of Parliament were sworn in after marathon negotiations and […]
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Sat 15 June 2024: More than half of President Joe Biden’s supporters said they are mainly backing the incumbent in 2024 to oppose former President Donald Trump, according to a new survey. A new CBS News/YouGov poll, released Sunday, found 54 percent of likely Biden voters are planning to choose him on November’s ballot, a […]
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Fri 14 June 2024: After agreeing to be a part of a government of national unity, DA leader John Steenhuisen has stated that his party will support President Cyril Ramaphosa for the presidency of the seventh administration. During a break in the National Assembly’s sessions in Cape Town, Steenhuisen spoke on a live television broadcast. […]
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Fri 14 June 2024: Support for armed struggle as the best means to end Israeli occupation and achieve statehood rose among Palestinians, while backing for the group, Hamas, also increased slightly in the last three months, according to an opinion poll, Reuters reports. The poll by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) showed support […]
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Fri 14 June 2024: The Israeli war on Gaza has left the occupation entity struggling with a severe economic crisis, which has now made its way to the settlers themselves with no solutions in sight, Bloomberg said in a report. After Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in October 2023, tens of thousands of Israelis residing in Gaza’s […]
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Fri 14 June 2024: Reports are gushing in about Saudi Arabia planning to drop the petrodollar for the Chinese yuan in an economic pivot toward East Asia and away from the US, but experts have stressed that the story is not as it seems with relations with Washington apparently on the mend. Back in March, The Wall Street Journal reported […]
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Thu 13 June 2024: A group of cancer victims asked a federal judge to block Johnson & Johnson’s proposed bankruptcy settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging the company’s baby powder and other talc products caused their illnesses, according to a court filing. The plaintiffs filed a motion late on Tuesday in a New […]
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Thu 13 June 2024: Over 1.5 million pilgrims have so far arrived in Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj season, the Kingdom’s General Directorate of Passports announced on Tuesday. The directorate said that up until Monday, June 10, the number of pilgrims that entered the Kingdom through the air, land and sea ports reached 1,547,295. Breakdown of […]
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Thu 13 June 2024: Apple is facing criticism from a group of self-described workers, former employees and shareholders who are calling on the tech giant to halt donations to non-profit organisations linked to Israel’s military onslaught on the Palestinians in Gaza and its ongoing illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Details of the row […]
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Thu 13 June 2024: A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research has also found that nearly 80 percent of Gaza residents polled say that at least one of their family members has been killed or injured in the current Israeli war. Nevertheless, two-thirds of the public support the October 7 Hamas […]
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