Thu 09 July 2026: The death toll from the current Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached 600, according to data released late Wednesday by the country’s health authorities. Health Ministry data showed that the number of confirmed cases has reached 1,759 as community transmission continued. The outbreak of the […]
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Thu 09 July 2026: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Moscow wants to deepen cooperation with the Confederation of Sahel States (AES) in support of the bloc’s integration efforts and security priorities. Speaking at the opening of the second ministerial consultations between Russia and the AES in Niger, Lavrov said the two sides […]
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Thu 09 July 2026: On the second straight day of its renewed strikes on the country, the US struck a strategic railway bridge in northern Iran linking it to China and Russia, Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported Thursday. The cruise missile attack targeted the Ogtay Khan railway bridge in the northeastern Golestan province on […]
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Thu 09 July 2026: US indicts Indian crime boss, links him to Sikh leader’s killing that strained India-Canada relations. Authorities in the United States have announced charges against the leader of an Indian criminal group in connection with the political assassination of a prominent Sikh leader in Canada – a high-profile killing that plunged relations between Ottawa […]
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Thu 09 July 2026: President Trump announces a move to delist Syria, citing efforts by Ahmed al-Sharaa to unify the country. The United States says it will remove Syria’s designation as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, a decades-old label that severely impeded investment, in a new vote of confidence in President Ahmed al-Sharaa. “This is […]
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Thu 09 July 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:👇🏼 ◼️ South Africans living in small towns headed for serious trouble: His comments come after the National Treasury announced that it would temporarily withhold the equitable share transfers for July from 69 municipalities. The Treasury said the transfers would resume once the affected municipalities […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Anne Ancia, said the country’s Ebola epidemic continues to spread and that its true scale has not yet been fully determined. Ancia made the remarks during the United Nations’ weekly press briefing in Geneva. She said the epidemic […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: On July 8, at about 11:10 GMT, about 99 percent of the world experiences sunlight at the same time. Because of Earth’s tilt and the timing of the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, about 99 percent of the world’s population – some 8.2 billion people – will experience daylight or twilight simultaneously on […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: More than 5,500 children have been newly displaced by fighting over the strategic Sudanese city of el-Obeid, and thousands more are at risk, Save the Children has warned. “As families arrive in displacement sites and into local communities, they face increasingly difficult living conditions,” the international charity said in a statement. […]
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Wed 08 July 2026: The United States and Iran have exchanged attacks after the US military said Iran struck ships in the Strait of Hormuz, threatening a fragile ceasefire between Tehran and Washington. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said its strikes on Iran began on Tuesday and were conducted “in response to Iranian attacks on […]
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