Thu 12 October 2023: The number of newborns in China decreased significantly in the previous year. The country saw a 10% decline in births, the lowest number on record, in spite of massive government attempts to encourage motherhood. There are worries that the nation’s demographics have become unbalanced as a result of this worrying decline. […]
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Thu 12 October 2023: Since Hamas launched an attack on Israel on Saturday morning, Social media platforms has been flooded with disinformation and misinformation that has heightened tensions across the globe. Disinformation refers to the deliberate spread of false information, while misinformation is when someone unwittingly spreads or believes the false information to be true. Against […]
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Thu 12 October 2023: Amid the spiralling violence, and as the blame game for the intelligence failure which allowed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants to infiltrate the border between Gaza and Israel picks up steam, Russian President Vladimir Putin described the developments as a clear sign of the failure of the US policy in the […]
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Thu 12 October 2023: Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has removed hundreds of “Hamas-affiliated accounts” and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands of pieces of content since the attacks. “We continue to respond promptly to law enforcement requests from around the world, including EU member states,” CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation alongside the opposition party leader, Benny Gantz, after the pair agreed to form an emergency government to direct war against Hamas. A new war cabinet has been formed, consisting of Netanyahu, Gantz, and Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant. During the fighting with Hamas, […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: Israel received a warning from Egypt of potential violence three days before the deadly Hamas’s attack, the chairman of the powerful US House Foreign Affairs Committee says. “We know that Egypt has warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen,” Michael McCaul told reporters following a […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Israel’s blockade and bombing of Gaza in retaliation for Hamas’s attack was a disproportionate response amounting to a “massacre”. Erdogan said even war had a “morality” but the flare-up since the weekend had “very severely” violated that. “Preventing people meeting their most fundamental […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: The US Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, on Wednesday said a G7-led price cap on Russian oil had sharply reduced Russian revenues over the past 10 months, and that it was critical to keep imposing severe and increasing costs on Russia over its war in Ukraine. Reuters reports she added that global energy […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: South Africa’s population has increased from 51.7 million in 2011 to more than 62 million in 2022, which is a growth rate of 1.8% in the intercensal period. This is according to Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke, who handed over South Africa’s Census 2022 national results to President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union […]
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Wed 11 October 2023: More than a million people in Gaza already relied on food assistance from the UNRWA before the conflict, says Juliette Touma, director of communications for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). “That shows you the level of dependency on our systems and on our operations on the […]
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