Tue 18 August 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:*👇🏼 ◼️ March and March to meet AfriForum to ‘learn’ from its advocacy strategies: The leader of the controversial anti-migrant movement March and March, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, says the organisation will meet with AfriForum on Tuesday to learn more about the civil rights group’s advocacy strategies. […]
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Mon 17 August 2026: Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema holds an early lead in the general election and appears headed for a possible first-round victory, though the process has been clouded by opposition allegations that armed personnel raided the home of his main challenger. Polls closed on Thursday, and by Sunday more than half of the […]
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Mon 17 August 2026: Myanmar has, for the first time, acknowledged nearly 309,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as former residents of Rakhine state, saying they would be allowed to return once security conditions improve in the conflict-hit region. The Foreign Ministry said 308,975 displaced people had been verified as former residents of Rakhine, marking a […]
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Mon 17 August 2026: Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023, has become the longest and most expensive war in Israel’s history, with costs reaching about 420 billion shekels ($142bn) and national debt rising by roughly 400 billion shekels ($135bn), Haaretz newspaper reports. The report said Israel entered its ground offensive […]
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Mon 17 August 2026: Iran’s economic problems have worsened since the start of the war with the US and Israel, due to declining oil revenues and the destruction of factories, President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday. In remarks carried by Iranian media, Pezeshkian attributed rising prices to higher costs and falling state revenues resulting from a decline in […]
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Mon 17 August 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ Here’s what R100 could buy you in 2000 vs today: Concerningly, food inflation has beaten inflation in many categories. For example, cooking oil has seen a 703.9% price increase since 2000, far exceeding the inflation rate. Similarly, staples like bread and milk […]
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Sun 16 August 2026: New Delhi: The top five family businesses have held more than 60% of income share in corporate India in the past two decades, even as markets have become more competitive since liberalisation, showed a study in the World Bank Economic Review. The study, titled ‘Business Groups, Concentration and Market Power in India’, published […]
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Sun 16 August 2026: An Iranian military official said on Sunday that Qatar should allow an Iranian team to enter the country to investigate the fate of pilots whom Tehran says were captured by Qatari forces, Iranian media reported. Qatar denies holding any Iranian pilots. Doha said on Saturday that its search and rescue teams […]
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Sun 16 August 2026: At least one person was killed and three others wounded in a Ukrainian drone barrage targeting Moscow, a local official reported, as Russia simultaneously bombarded Kyiv with ballistic missiles. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces destroyed 822 drones across the country overnight. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated on social media […]
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Sun 16 August 2026: The Department of Defense is introducing a course centered on Western civilization and Christianity this fall in the schools it operates for military families, part of an effort by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to redirect the education system toward patriotic values and classical learning. The Department of Defense Education Activity operates about […]
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