Reuters Water levels in Tehran’s Amirkabir dam are at 8% of capacity, officials say Authorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country’s worst drought in decades. Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on Saturday, Iran’s official news agency Irna…
NewsFeed Donald Trump has departed for Malaysia, where he’s set to attend the ASEAN summit and hold trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Speaking before he left, the US President criticised Canada over its ‘crooked ad’ about tariffs, and said he’d be open to meeting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Published On 25 Oct…
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Demolition has begun on part of the East Wing of the White House in preparation for the construction of US President Donald Trump’s new ballroom. Construction crews on Monday tore down massive chunks of a covered entryway and windows in the East Wing, which Trump said is being “fully modernised”. The president previously said that…
Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites. Many now are back online. The outage was first reported at 3:11 a.m. ET in AWS’ main US-East-1 region hosted in northern Virginia. A notice on AWS’ status page said it was experiencing DNS…
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. UP NEXT Trump heads to Israel amid preparations for hostage return 01:05 Families of hostages prepare to reunite with loved ones 01:35 Trump travels to Mideast with hostage release imminent 02:43 Nor’easter brings heavy rains, dangerous East Coast flood threat…
36m ago Palestinians travel back to northern Gaza Palestinians who left northern Gaza during the many periods of fighting there were seen trekking back to the area on Friday, carrying what they could, images showed. Pictures showed streams of people moving north on Rashid Street, a coastal road that links the northern and southern…
1m ago Trump to see U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer later today President Trump has not yet met with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his state visit. The two leaders are set to see one another, however, at the state banquet at Windsor Castle, on Wednesday evening, The Guardian newspaper reported. The leaders…
Global Voices Advox This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 1 August 2025. ‘Technology-facilitated gender-based violence isn’t a side effect of digital growth. It’s the price women pay for being online.’ In early 2025, researchers tracking African elections uncovered a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos targeting women journalists and female candidates in Ghana, Senegal,…
Solly Malatsi. Image c/o DCDT The department of communications & digital technologies on Friday gazetted the draft white paper on audio and audio-visual media services (AAVMS) and online safety for public comment by 10 August. This is the third version of the document (read it here), with the first and second editions published in 2020…
