Wed 15 July 2026: Cuba’s national power grid has collapsed, plunging the island into its third nationwide blackout in less than 10 days and leaving approximately 10 million people without electricity. The outage began around 11am local time (15:00 GMT) on Tuesday, when the country’s entire power grid went offline, according to the state-run electricity company, UNE. […]
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Tue 14 July 2026: US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran’s top military commanders have been killed and claimed that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his successor, was “90% gone.” Speaking in an interview with Fox News, Trump said Iran’s military capabilities had been severely degraded. “They have no navy. They have no […]
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Tue 14 July 2026: The British government is pressing to use new powers allowing it to criminalise state proxies in order to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a threat to national security. In a statement issued on Monday, the government announced that it was submitting draft regulations to the UK Parliament that […]
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Tue 14 July 2026: Israel’s Iron Dome manufacturer is encountering a production delay for crucial components following Volkswagen’s announcement that its Osnabruck factory will halt production by 2027. The automaker’s decision has put Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems at risk of losing a vital manufacturing pipeline for its missile components. Rafael had aimed to produce Tamir interceptor missiles for […]
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Tue 14 July 2026: A prominent Indian social activist demanding the education minister’s resignation over exam paper leaks entered the 17th day of a hunger strike on Tuesday as his condition worsened, prompting opposition leaders to urge him to call off the fast. Sonam Wangchuk has been fasting in central Delhi in solidarity with the […]
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Tue 14 July 2026: Hospital staff caring for Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have initiated a strike, claiming they have not received their salaries for several months, which has caused the hospital to cease operations. Dozens of employees at Rwampara General Hospital in Ituri province, the epicentre of the outbreak, walked off the job […]
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Tue 14 July 2026: Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a report by The New York Times alleging that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency had sought to recruit him and that he is under house arrest, describing the claims as “completely false.” In a statement, Ahmadinejad’s office accused the newspaper of publishing fabricated reports […]
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Tue 14 July 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ US gives SA another deadline: The hearing concerned the Section 301 Investigations into the Acts, Policies, and Practices of 60 Economies Related to the Failure to Impose and Effectively Enforce a Prohibition on the Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labour. “In the […]
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Mon 13 July 2026: Israel reportedly conducted a years-long covert operation aimed at recruiting former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an intelligence asset before developing a plan for regime change that would have installed him as Iran’s new leader, according to a report by The New York Times citing former US officials. The operation ultimately […]
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Mon 13 July 2026: Yemen’s internationally recognised government says its forces have carried out a strike at Sanaa airport to prevent an Iranian aircraft from landing there. The Yemeni capital, Sanaa – and much of northern Yemen, including the port city of Hodeidah on the country’s western Red Sea coast – is controlled by the […]
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