Mon 06 October 2025: Russia and Ukraine traded claims on Monday over large-scale overnight air attacks, with Moscow saying its air defenses destroyed more than 250 Ukrainian drones and Kyiv reporting hundreds of Russian strikes on several regions. The Russian Defense Ministry said air defense units intercepted and destroyed 251 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles overnight, […]
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Mon 06 October 2025: Swedish activist Greta Thunberg will be deported to Greece on Monday after being detained aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was sailing toward the Gaza Strip to break Israel’s blockade, the Israeli channel i24News reported Sunday. The channel said that Thunberg will arrive in Greece along with Greek nationals who were […]
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Mon 06 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ US-blacklisted Russian cargo plane lands in South Africa, raising diplomatic tensions: A Russian cargo aircraft, which has been blacklisted by the US, and landed in Upington on Thursday was offloading transport general cargo, civilian helicopters, and acrobatic. aeroplanes, the Department of Transport confirmed […]
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Sun 05 October 2025: Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, announced that Pyongyang has deployed “special assets” to address the growing presence of U.S. military forces in South Korea, vowing to implement”additional military measures,” according to state media KCNA on Sunday. “In direct proportion to the US military’s arms buildup in the ROK (South Korea) […]
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Sun 05 October 2025: Pope Leo encouraged the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics to embrace immigrants, continuing his call for compassion following his recent criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump’s strict anti-immigration stance. As the first U.S. pope, he addressed thousands of pilgrims at Mass in St. Peter’s Square, urging them to reject indifference or discrimination […]
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Sun 05 October 2025: Attackers wore military uniform and rode vehicles imitating security forces to breach a high-security prison in the capital. All seven attackers who stormed a major prison complex in Mogadishu have been killed following an hours-long gun battle in the largest such assault on the capital in recent months, the Somali government […]
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Sun 05 October 2025: One in five children in Gaza is born premature or underweight, a consequence of the prolonged, systematic Israeli siege of the Palestinian territory over the past two years, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said last week. “This week, UNICEF delivered urgently needed hygiene supplies to hospitals and health centres in Gaza […]
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Sat 04 October 2025: The Church of England has appointed Sarah Mullally as the next archbishop of Canterbury, marking the first time a woman has held the Church’s highest position. At 63, Mullally will lead the 85-million-strong global Anglican Communion, navigating ongoing divisions over issues like women’s roles in the Church and same-sex relationships. She […]
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Sat 04 October 2025: Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has dismissed demands for his resignation from a youth-led protest movement, labeling their actions as a coup attempt orchestrated by political opponents. On Friday, demonstrators flooded the streets of Antananarivo following a brief pause in the almost daily protests led by the “Gen Z” movement, which has […]
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Sat 04 October 2025: Nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza have sustained “life-changing” injuries, about one-quarter of whom are children, says Rik Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization (WHO) representative for the occupied Palestinian territory. Peeperkorn told reporters during a UN briefing that the organisation has tallied a total of 167,000 injured people in the Gaza Strip […]
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