Thu 25 September 2025: Democratic Republic of Congo will stick to its recently announced quota system for cobalt exports, with revisions only possible in the long term if the government sees them as necessary, the country’s mining minister said on Wednesday. The mining minister, Louis Watum Kabamba, told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines […]
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Thu 25 September 2025: The global water cycle is growing increasingly unstable, swinging from severe droughts to destructive floods, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The State of Global Water Resources 2024 report highlights the growing pressure on freshwater sources and the cascading impacts of climate change on societies and […]
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Thu 25 September 2025: A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook parts of Venezuela late Wednesday and was felt across several Colombian cities, according to the Colombian Geological Service (SGC). The tremor was centered in the town of Mene Grande, Venezuela, and occurred at 6.21 pm local time (2221GMT). The earthquake generated alarm among residents in both countries, but so far, […]
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Thu 25 September 2025: Germany‘s armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out, and amid long-standing warnings by the alliance that Moscow could be capable of launching an attack from 2029. Moscow has rejected any suggestions it might be preparing for a war […]
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Thu 25 September 2025: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has announced that Pyongyang has acquired new “secret weapons” as part of its efforts to strengthen its military capabilities, the Korean Central News Agency reported on Monday. “We’ve newly acquired secret weapons and achieved feats in the defense science field that will greatly help bolster our military […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: US President Donald Trump has linked childhood vaccine use and paracetamol use by pregnant women to autism. The World Health Organization (WHO) has debunked United States President Donald Trump’s claim of a possible link between autism and the use of paracetamol during pregnancy. In a statement on Wednesday, the organisation emphasised that there […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: Platform to allow people to securely pass on information anywhere in the world, or offer their own services to MI6. The United Kingdom’s spy agency is set to launch a web portal on the dark web to recruit informants and receive secret information from agents in Russia and worldwide, Britain’s Foreign, […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: Trump presents plan on ending war on margins of UNGA dominated by Gaza, billed countries attending meeting as ‘the group that could do it’. Turkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that he is “pleased” with the results of a “fruitful” meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Arab and Muslim leaders […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: The three West African countries say they are leaving the International Criminal Court to seek ‘sovereignty’. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, three nations in West Africa run by military governments after coups in recent years, have announced their exit from the International Criminal Court (ICC), referring to it as “neocolonial repression” […]
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Sun 17 August 2025: Demonstrators took to the streets across Israel on Sunday, calling for an end to the war on Gaza and a deal to release captives still held by Hamas, as the military prepares a new offensive. The protests come more than a week after Israel’s security cabinet approved plans to capture Gaza City, following 22 months […]
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