Sat 06 December 2025: Afghanistan authorities say four civilians have been killed after an exchange of heavy fire with Pakistan’s forces along their shared border, as tensions between the South Asian neighbours escalate after peace talks in Saudi Arabia failed to produce a breakthrough. The governor of Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak district in the Kandahar province […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Witness D’s Madlanga testimony ‘angered certain elements of our society’: President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed shock and sadness over the murder of Madlanga Commission witness Marius van der Merwe, who was gunned down at his home in Brakpan, Ekurhuleni, on Friday evening. Ramaphosa […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: Nestor Owomuhangi, the UN Population Fund’s representative to Palestine, says the truce between Israel and Hamas “was desperately needed but it is not an end to the war for women and girls” in the Gaza Strip. Speaking during a UN briefing via video-link from Gaza, Owomuhangi said most Palestinian families in […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: A US district court judge ordered Friday that grand jury transcripts from a federal case against disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in the US state of Florida be unsealed. Judge Rodney Smith said in a brief two-page order that he would grant the Justice Department’s renewed push for the documents after Congress passed a law last […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: On Friday, Donald Trump’s chief of protocol for the US presidency announced ongoing discussions with FIFA to relocate World Cup games away from cities governed by Democratic leaders. “President Trump is very concerned about some of these blue cities, high crime rates, and he’s talking to FIFA,” Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley said […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: Sudan Doctors Network says ‘deliberate suicide-drone attacks’ targeted a kindergarten and several civilian facilities. The death toll from Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on a kindergarten and other sites in the city of Kalogi in South Kordofan state has risen to about 47 people – mostly children – with about 50 […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ SA breaks ranks with BRICS to vote for UN resolution: The reason is largely that South Africa has consistently championed the return of the Ukrainian children, starting with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s direct appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to do so when he […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said recent talks with United States negotiators over ending the war with Ukraine were “very useful”, while doubling down on the maximalist demands and territorial designs that are standing in the way of a solution. In advance of a trip to New Delhi on Thursday, Putin told India […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: United States President Donald Trump has hosted the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to sign a peace deal that could end the conflict between the two countries. Although the violence on the ground has not stopped, Trump hailed the US-brokered deal on Thursday as a new chapter […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: The Israeli army faces “the worst manpower crisis in its history” amid a severe shortage in personnel, Israeli reserve general and military analyst Itzhak Brik said Sunday. In an opinion piece in the daily Maariv, Brik said thousands of officers and non-commissioned officers avoided service in recent months, either by refusing […]
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