Sun 12 October 2025: Border hostilities between Afghanistan and Pakistan escalated Saturday as their armies are engaged in cross-border shelling and firing of heavy artillery. The escalation comes a day after Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration accused the Pakistani army of violating airspace over the capital Kabul and bombing a market in the Margha region of […]
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Sun 12 October 2025: Half of the population is projected to experience critical food shortages by mid-2026 as armed groups block aid. More than half of Haiti’s population is experiencing critical levels of hunger as armed groups tighten their grip across the Caribbean nation and the ravaged economy continues its downward spiral. A report released […]
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Sun 12 October 2025: Beijing has vowed to hold its ground amid escalating trade tensions, calling on the United States to address bilateral disputes through dialogue rather than threats. In a pointed rebuke, China labeled President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs on Chinese imports as hypocritical, while staunchly justifying its own restrictions on exporting rare earth […]
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Sun 12 October 2025: A rogue faction of Madagascar’s military has declared its intent to seize control of the armed forces, escalating a deepening crisis. This shift comes as elite soldiers, who previously supported the current president’s rise to power, have now aligned themselves with antigovernment protesters. “From now on, all orders of the Malagasy […]
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Sat 11 October 2025: The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa has launched a digital payments system to cut transaction costs by allowing businesses to settle deals in local currencies, it said on Thursday. COMESA, which has 21 member states including Egypt, Kenya and Ethiopia, joins efforts by the African continent to push for […]
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Sat 11 October 2025: Tony Blair met with Jeffrey Epstein in Downing Street while serving as prime minister, following lobbying from Lord Peter Mandelson, according to the BBC on Friday. Mandelson’s later career as UK ambassador in Washington, DC, came to a crashing end when messages were published detailing the depth of his relationship with Epstein, a convicted […]
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A screengrab from a video posted online by United States President Donald Trump on September 3, 2025 showing a vessel in the Caribbean being monitored from the air by the US military.(Supplied: Truth Social / @RealDonaldTrump) Sat 11 October 2025: Russia and China denounced on Friday the growing US military presence in the southern […]
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Sat 11 October 2025: Israeli Army Radio, citing a security source, reported that Israel will not hand over the bodies of Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas’s Political Bureau and mastermind of the 7 October cross- border attack, and his brother Mohammed Sinwar, a senior Hamas leader, as part of the current agreement. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem […]
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Sat 11 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ What’s with all these Russian-made aircraft flying above Pretoria? With the sensational news of a mysterious Russian-owned Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft landing at Upington last week, it’s understandable that South Africans have begun focusing their attention skyward or obsessively watching flight tracking apps. […]
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Fri 10 October 2025: The attacks come amid rising tensions with Islamabad, which accuses the Taliban of sheltering anti-Pakistan armed groups. Islamabad, Pakistan – The Taliban have blamed Pakistan for an explosion in Kabul and another in the eastern Afghanistan province of Paktika on Thursday, amid mounting tensions between the neighbours and shifting allegiances in South […]
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