Tue 12 August 2025: On Sunday evening, three reactor units at the Gravelines nuclear power station, located on the English Channel, were automatically shut down due to a large influx of jellyfish clogging the plant’s water pumping systems, according to France’s energy company, Electricite de France (EDF). A fourth reactor was taken offline early Monday […]
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Tue 12 August 2025: The Israeli Defense Ministry’s Rehabilitation Department said Wednesday it has received 80,000 soldiers since the outbreak of the war in Gaza Strip in October 2023, including 26,000 for mental illness. The department said that it allocates around 4.2 billion shekels ($1.2 billion)-more than half of its annual budget-to provide medical services for wounded […]
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Tue 12 August 2025: The US State Department on Monday designated Pakistan’s Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its armed wing, the Majeed Brigade, as terrorist organizations, accusing them of carrying out multiple deadly attacks in recent years. The State Department said the group has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings near Karachi airport and the Gwadar […]
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Tue 12 August 2025: Israel’s defense minister on Monday hit back at a list published by media linked to Iran’s military which named Israeli officials in an assassination list, appearing to threaten Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s life in response. “I suggest to the Iranian dictator Khamenei that when he leaves the bunker, he occasionally look […]
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Tue 12 August 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ The price of racism: As South Africans demand the removal of Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie following his use of the K-word in a recent live video and previous social media posts, we delve into the legal implications surrounding this […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday signed a decree on providing Kyiv with an additional $2 million in humanitarian aid, as the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war nears three and a half years. The document, shared on the website of Azerbaijan’s presidency, decrees the allocation of the funds to the Energy Ministry for […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: On Monday, Indian police detained Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka Gandhi, and multiple senior opposition MPs during a march in New Delhi opposing a contentious revision of Bihar’s voter list, local media reported. The unified opposition protest was sparked by the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) […]
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From left: Anas al-Sharif, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Qreiqeh [Al Jazeera] Mon 11 August 2025: Israel deliberately attacked the tent the journalists were working out of, at the gates of al-Shifa Hospital. Late on Sunday, an Israeli strike shook al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, targeting a journalists’ tent by the […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: President Donald Trump said Sunday that homeless people must be moved “far” from Washington, after days of musing about taking federal control of the US capital, where he has falsely suggested crime is rising. The Republican billionaire has announced a press conference for Monday in which he is expected to reveal his plans […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: Mosquito-borne viral fever chikungunya cases are rising, and since the beginning of this year some 240,000 infections have been recorded across the world, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The virus cases were recorded until July in 16 countries and regions across the Americas, Africa, Asia, […]
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