Tue 18 November 2025: US president signals major arms deal before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the White House. United States President Donald Trump says he will greenlight the sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, signalling a departure in how Washington handles sophisticated weapons transfers to Arab countries. Trump made the […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: Gaza‘s historical and cultural heritage has not been spared Israeli bombardment during Tel Aviv‘s two-year war, with over 20,000 rare artifacts spanning from prehistoric eras to the Ottoman period missing and looted. “The Israeli army has systematically and extensively destroyed Gaza’s archaeological sites as part of a policy aimed at erasing Palestinian identity,” Ismail al-Thawabteh, head of […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ G-20 Summit Will Move On Without US: “We believe that the countries that are present here must be able to take a decision and adopt a declaration,” Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s foreign minister, told the inaugural Bloomberg Africa Business Summit in the city […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Bangladesh on Monday demanded India extradite ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, hours after she was sentenced to hang for crimes against humanity. Hasina’s autocratic rule was backed by New Delhi, and the 78-year-old fled to India after her ouster in a mass uprising in August 2024, fraying relations between the two neighbours. […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: US President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that talks may be held with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro as tensions and a military buildup continue in the Caribbean Sea. “We may be having some discussions with Maduro, and we’ll see how that turns out…They would like to talk,” Trump told reporters in […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity over her government’s violent crackdown on student-led protests last year. The interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has called the death sentence for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a “historic […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Ramaphosa to serve full term: The plan allegedly circulated in a letter among senior ANC members. It called for Ramaphosa’s removal and the disbandment of the NEC. The letter proposed a national task team led by Thabo Mbeki. https://independentpress.cc/ramaphosa-to-serve-full-term-despite-alleged-ouster-plot/2025/11/17/ ————- ◼️ South African speed lovers […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Details have emerged about the controversial scheme to take Palestinians out of Gaza, run by Al-Majd Europe. On Thursday morning, a chartered plane carrying 153 Palestinians from war-torn Gaza – many without the required travel documents – landed at an airport near Johannesburg, leaving South African officials “blindsided”. After nearly 12 […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: Nine cases reported in Ethiopia’s Omo region, bordering conflict-wracked South Sudan, which has a fragile health system. Ethiopia has confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after nine cases were reported in the south of the country. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday commended the Ethiopian […]
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Sun 16 November 2025: The Africa CDC said it had recorded about 300,000 confirmed and suspected cases of cholera so far in 2025, a rise over last year. Africa is experiencing its worst outbreak of cholera in the past 25 years, with Angola and Burundi seeing renewed surges that suggest active transmission of the disease, […]
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