Mon 19 August 2024: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and de-facto ruler, Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS), allegedly forged his father King Salman’s signature to deploy ground troops to Yemen, a former royal adviser has claimed. According to the Times, citing a new BBC documentary, Saad Al-Jabri, an ex-aide to former Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Nayef (MBN), made the allegations. […]
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Mon 19 August 2024: The United States and South Korea commenced a significant joint military exercise on Monday, with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol emphasizing the need to bolster defense preparedness against North Korea’s evolving “gray zone provocations and hybrid warfare.” 11-Day Ulchi Freedom Shield Exercise Aims to Counter North Korean Threats The 11-day […]
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Mon 19 August 2024: The Department of Health has assured South Africans that the current Mpox outbreak remains under control. “However, this does not mean people should become complacent because we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that viruses are unpredictable as they mutate from time to time.” According to the department, South Africa remains […]
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Mon 19 August 2024: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has revealed that the recent Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region was intended to create a “buffer zone” to separate Ukraine from Russia and hinder Moscow’s military operations. In a late Sunday interview on his official Telegram account, Zelenskyy emphasized the strategic importance of the operation. During […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Hezbollah official Fuad Shukr was lured by a phone call to go from his office to his apartment before Israeli munitions targeted his home, killing him, his wife, two children and two other women, a report from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed. Shukr was killed on 30 July in the southern Beirut neighbourhood of […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Saudi Arabia aims to direct significantly less of its $1 trillion strategic investments to its oil industry than was previously expected, a recent report has revealed. According to a report by prominent American investment bank Goldman Sachs this week, Saudi Arabia’s capital expenditure [capex] plan is set to amount to a […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: The United States’s top diplomat is visiting Israel as part of Washington’s efforts to secure a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza in which more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the besieged enclave since last October. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to arrive in Israel on Sunday, […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the social media platform X would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” from the Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X claims Moraes secretly threatened one of its legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Ukraine’s military operation across the Russian border has led to the capture of over 150 Russian prisoners of war (POWs) on some days, according to Oleksii Drozdenko, head of the military administration in Sumy. Drozdenko described the attack as the first of “several stages” aimed at taking the fight to Moscow. […]
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Sun 18 August 2024: Tens of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc has warned, with a drop in crop and livestock production causing food shortages in several countries. Elias Magosi, executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), said on Saturday that […]
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