Thu 31 July 2025: The South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to reduce the repo rate by 25 basis points to 7%, with effect from the 1 August 2025. Addressing a media briefing on the MPC’s decision on the repo rate, SARB Governor Lesetja Kganyago said the decision to reduce the […]
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Thu 31 July 2025: Canada and the US are working on negotiating a trade deal by August 1, with Trump threatening a 35% tariff on Canada. United States President Donald Trump has said it will be difficult to make a trade deal with Canada after it announced that it would back Palestinian statehood, following the […]
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Thu 31 July 2025: Nearly 50 Israeli soldiers have died by suicide since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023, local media said on Wednesday. The daily Haaretz said 17 soldiers committed suicide this year, while 24 killed themselves in 2024, and 17 in 2023, including seven following the Gaza war. The newspaper […]
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Thu 31 July 2025: In a bid to salvage the two-state solution long dismissed by Israel, Arab states have urged Hamas to relinquish power in Gaza. Seventeen countries, including Arab League members, Turkiye and the European Union, have issued a joint call for Hamas to step aside and cede governance of Gaza to the Palestinian […]
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Thu 31 July 2025: x US President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed former Russian president and current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, warning him to “watch his words,” after Medvedev threatened war. “Tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words. He’s entering very […]
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Thu 31 July 2025: Roughly 80,000 children are at high risk of cholera as the rainy season begins across West and Central Africa, the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) said Wednesday. In a statement, the agency said active outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria heightened the risk of cholera spreading, raising the threat […]
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Wed 30 July 2025: US coffee chain Starbucks’ global comparable store sales decreased a larger-than-expected 2% year-on-year in the April-June quarter, according to the firm’s financial results released Tuesday. Comparable store sales in North America also fell by 2%. Starbucks’ international comparable store sales were flat in the same period, while sales in China increased […]
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Wed 30 July 2025: Tsunami waves have hit parts of Russia, Japan and the United States after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. The quake struck 136km (84 miles) east of the coastal city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia’s far east, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Japan’s meteorological agency issued […]
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Wed 30 July 2025: Trump says he cut off his relationship with Epstein because the sex offender poached workers from his Florida resort. United States President Donald Trump has said that he ended his relationship with disgraced financier and convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein because he “stole” young female workers from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Speaking to reporters […]
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Wed 30 July 2025: Only 32 percent of survey respondents said they approve of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, down 10 points from last year. Washington, DC – A new poll from the research firm Gallup suggests that only 32 percent of Americans approve of Israel’s military action in Gaza, a 10-point drop from September 2024, as […]
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