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From Germany, 'war influencers' incite violence in Somalia
Deutsche Welle
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Ayub Abdirizak — or "Kabtan Ayub," as he is known to his social media followers — can easily reach hundreds of thousands of people with his posts on TikTok and Facebook. His messages often carry a blend of hatred for rival clans in Somalia and...
Puntland Funds Road After Mogadishu Blocks AfDB Aid
The Somali Digest
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July 3, 2025
Bacaadweyn, Puntland — President Said Abdullahi Deni today inaugurated construction of the Bacaadweyne-Galkayo road—a 40-kilometer lifeline that should have been built with African Development Bank funding but will instead be financed entirely...
Oulu police do not suspect crime in Kalajoki drownings
Yle Uutiset
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July 31, 2025
Oulu Police do not suspect any crime in an incident where three teenagers drowned at the Hiekkasärkät beach in Kalajoki over the weekend. According to the deputy investigator in charge, Teuvo Nissilä, police have gathered extensive information and...
Australian woman who introduced the hula hoop to the world – but missed out on the profits – dies aged 101
The Guardian
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August 1, 2025
What began with a large bamboo ring wrapped in brown paper and posted across the Pacific to an Australian war bride in the US launched what became one of the world’s greatest fads of the late 1950s – the hula hoop. But Joan Anderson, the parcel’s...
‘It’s for White People’: Trump’s South African Refugee Program Confirms What We Already Knew
NewsOne
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July 31, 2025
Source: Aninka Bongers-Sutherland / Getty I told y’all. Back in May, I warned that Donald Trump’s executive order launching a so-called “refugee” program specifically designed to fast-track white South Africans into the United States wasn’t about...
Russia, US Compete in West Africa: Africa File, July 31, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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To receive the weekly Africa File or tri-weekly Congo War Security Review via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on X, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. Contributors: Miles Charles, Edlawit Tesfaye, and Calvin Hodges Key Takeaways: West Africa. Russia...
Nearly 200 Somali Families Flee to Kenya as Fighting Escalates in Balad-Hawo
Garowe Online
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Southwest State President Travels by Air to Besieged Bakool Region Amid Mounting Criticism HUDUR, Somalia — Southwest State President Abdiaziz Laftagareen continues to travel to the Bakool region by air, as ground access to the area has remained...
Countries offering visa-free access to Pakistanis
Pakistan Today
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July 30, 2025
Citizens of Pakistan can travel visa-free to over 30 countries, according to a report by Henley & Partners, a global residence and citizenship advisory firm. The report identifies 12 countries, mostly in Africa, Oceania, and Asia, as the world’s...
Pacific tsunami: modern early warning systems prevent the catastrophic death tolls of the past
The Conversation
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July 31, 2025
The earthquake in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula on July 30 2025 may have been one of the most severe on record, with a magnitude of 8.8. But innovations in science and technology gave governments vital time to warn and evacuate their people from...
Tucked away in One Big Beautiful Bill, a plan to disqualify refugees from health care assistance
MinnPost - Minnesota
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July 31, 2025
Daily Newsletter | MinnPost's top stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Saturday. As the One Big Beautiful Bill ricocheted from proposal to signed law by President Donald Trump, Minnesota immigration advocates kept a close eye on how the...
For survivors of the Bosnian genocide, the war has never ended
Salon
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July 31, 2025
The warning came over the radio just as tanks rumbled into Prijedor in northwestern Bosnia on a gray April morning in 1992. All Muslim men and boys aged 12 and older were ordered to leave their homes and line up in the street. Enesa Krupić’s...
Map Shows Countries That Are Part of US Visa Waiver Program
Newsweek
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July 29, 2025
United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Monday that Argentina was likely to rejoin the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), allowing visa-free travel to the U.S. Noem said that part of the reason for the move was a rise in Argentinian...
Human Rights Watch: Houthi attacks on ships amount to war crimes
Marine Log
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July 23, 2025
Written by Nick Blenkey Screen grab from Houthi Video showing sinking of Magic Seas The Houthi armed group in Yemen attacked two commercial cargo vessels in the Red Sea between July 6 and 9, 2025, violations of the laws of war amounting to war...
Gaza hunger presents Trump with moral test familiar to past presidents
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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“I mean, some of those kids are -- that’s real starvation stuff,” Trump said in Scotland on Monday. “I see it, and you can’t fake it. So we’re going to be even more involved.” It was unclear what Trump meant by getting “more involved.” Days...
Israel has gone too far
The Spectator
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July 30, 2025
If any other country in the Middle East had behaved as monstrously as Israel has in recent weeks, the jets would be lined up on our runways ready to do a bit of performative bombing. Never mind BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) and...
Greece pushes back 19 irregular migrants to Türkiye
Sabah
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July 30, 2025
The Turkish Coast Guard Command rescued 19 irregular migrants from certain death in the Aegean Sea after their Greek counterparts reportedly pushed them back into Turkish territorial waters late Tuesday. Irregular migrants from Somalia, Yemen,...
Solar Eclipse on August 2: Will it really bring ‘6 minutes of darkness’ in the world? NASA answers after viral buzz
The Times of India
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Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity for thousands of years. Historically, eclipses were often seen as omens, influencing myths and legends. Today, there are opportunities for scientific research, including studying the Sun’s corona and testing...
Melbourne public housing residents and workers speak out against Labor government’s demolition plan
World Socialist Web Site
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July 31, 2025
Holland Court and 130 Racecourse Road public housing towers in FlemingtonResidents of the 44 public housing towers in Melbourne, which are being demolished by the state Labor government as part of a pro-business plan, attended the Socialist...
Tanzania bans foreigners from running small businesses to preserve citizens' livelihoods
Business Insider Africa
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July 30, 2025
Tanzania has enacted sweeping new restrictions barring foreigners from operating a broad range of small businesses, in a move aimed at protecting grassroots economic activity and preserving opportunities for local citizens. The new regulation,...
Boxing Day Tsunami: 14 Countries Forever Changed On December 26, 2004
News18
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July 30, 2025
Last Updated:July 30, 2025, 13:57 IST The 2004 earthquake and subsequent tsunami, among the deadliest natural disasters in recent history, resulted in the loss of over 230,000 lives across 14 countries, including India Fourteen countries,...