Wed 22 October 2025: Syrian civil defense teams on Tuesday retrieved the remains of 20 people from a mass grave east of the city of Douma in the Damascus countryside, local media said, Anadolu reports. The state-run Al-Ikhbariya channel, citing a civil defense statement, said the remains were found at a site in the Tal al-Sawan […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: The Kremlin said that Russia will be represented at a high level at the two-day summit scheduled for November. The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not travel to South Africa for a G20 summit in Johannesburg on November 22-23, but that Russia would be represented at […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Over 20% of the EU population faced poverty or social exclusion risks in 2024, per Eurostat’s Friday report. Five regions had rates over twice the EU average, with French Guiana topping the list at 59.5%, followed by Calabria (48.8%) and Campania (43.5%) in southern Italy, and Spain’s Melilla and Ceuta, each […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Mine action chief warns that unexploded munitions pose long-term danger as reconstruction begins, with 328 casualties reported in Gaza since October 2023. The UN’s mine action programme chief in the occupied Palestinian territories has said that the organisation is “deeply concerned about the heightened risk” posed by Israeli explosive ordnance in […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: The military also confiscated 30 Starlink satellites from the sprawling KK Park scam centre on the border with Thailand. Myanmar’s military says it has arrested more than 2,000 people in a raid on KK Park, an infamous scam centre on the border with Thailand, according to state media. The sprawling compound […]
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Wed 22 October 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ SA won’t compromise on its policies to appease US: US President Donald Trump’s administration previously led a disinformation drive against South Africa, incorrectly claiming a genocide against Afrikaner farmers. Lamola gave a brief update on trade talks while speaking at the Financial Times […]
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Tue 21 October 2025: U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday repeated his threat to slap a 10% tariff on imports from members of the BRICS group of developing nations and said the group would end very quickly if they ever formed in a meaningful way. “When I heard about this group from BRICS, six countries, basically, I hit them very, very […]
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Tue 21 October 2025: Qatar-based Al Jazeera television has shared the names of the Israeli military officials who killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab and her family, as well as the ambulance crew that went to rescue them in Gaza on January 29, 2024. Tamer al-Mishal, the host of the program titled “What is Hidden is Greater,” said that he has visual evidence […]
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Tue 21 October 2025: A draft regulation approved by European Union energy ministers would phase out Russian import contracts by January 2028. European Union states have agreed to halt Russian oil and gas imports by 2028, severing an energy link they fear helps fuel Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Almost all EU energy ministers voted in […]
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Tue 21 October 2025: Climate-related hazards have killed more than 2 million people in 50 years, said the UN’s meteorological agency, 90 percent of them in developing countries. Nearly half of all countries lack early-warning systems for extreme weather events, leaving millions – especially those in developing nations – vulnerable. As it released a new […]
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