Fri 08 August 2025: President Gustavo Petro says his government is trying to find out how many Colombians died in the attack. Sudan’s air force has destroyed a UAE aircraft carrying Colombian mercenaries as it was landing at an airport in Darfur controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), army-aligned state TV reported. The […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Leaked documents reveal Israel’s spy agency used Microsoft’s cloud to store Palestinians’ phone calls and target them. Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence unit stored vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft’s cloud servers, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call. The surveillance system, operational since […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Legal experts and activists question government inaction as citizens allegedly commit war crimes in Gaza Legal experts and human rights activists are raising alarms over the South African government’s failure to prosecute its citizens serving in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), creating what they describe as a state of impunity. This […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognized India’s use of Israeli-supplied weapons, including the jointly developed Barak-8 missile with India’s Defence Research Development Organisation and HARPY drones, in its military operation, Operation Sindoor, launched in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. “The things we provided before worked very well on the field… […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, has lost more than $800 billion in market value since its 2022 peak, Bloomberg has reported, marking a nearly 40 per cent decline and raising fresh concerns about the economic health of a kingdom still heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Shares in Aramco have fallen sharply, […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has confirmed that Israel has bombed more than 500 schools sheltering displaced people across the Gaza Strip since October 2023. In a statement issued on Thursday, the organisation said: “Since October 2023, Israeli authorities have carried out hundreds of strikes on schools sheltering displaced Palestinians, including unlawfully […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: On Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared his readiness to pay a “heavy price,” in response to elevated US tariffs, emphasizing that he will “never compromise” on safeguarding the interests of India’s citizens. His reaction came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump doubled US tariffs on India to 50%, up […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: A Kremlin official announced that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting in the near future. This follows Trump’s statement that he might soon meet both Putin and Ukrainian leaders to negotiate an end to the Ukraine conflict. Trump’s ultimatum for Russia to agree to […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: French Prime Minister François Bayrou called the raging wildfire in southern France’s Aude region a “catastrophe on an unprecedented scale,” tying it directly to climate change and prolonged drought. Visiting the devastated area, where flames have consumed a region larger than Paris, Bayrou highlighted the crisis’s severity. Since Tuesday, the inferno […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: ◼️ Inside Ramaphosa’s call with Trump: “The two leaders undertook to continue with further engagements, recognising the various trade negotiations the US is currently involved in. Respective trade negotiating teams will take forward more detailed discussions,” Ramaphosa spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said. https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/ramaphosas-call-trump-devastating-tariffs/ ————- ◼️ SA raises concern over arrival of “dangerous […]
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