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19 of Our Favorite Books of the Year Are Really Cheap Right Now
New York Mag
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July 8, 2025
Photo-Illustration: Vulture The year’s halfway over, and if you’ve lagged behind on your reading goals, some recommendations might help. We’ve rounded up the Vulture staff’s favorite books of 2025 so far, as well as the summer ahead, that happen...
WAFCON 2024: Banyana Banyana blaze past Ghana as Mbane, Dlamini shine in opener
Premium Times
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July 8, 2025
Reigning champions South Africa launched their 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) campaign in style, securing a commanding 2-0 victory over Ghana in their Group C opener on Monday evening in Oujda. It was a confident and clinical start by...
How an al-Qaeda offshoot became one of Africa's deadliest militant groups
BBC
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July 7, 2025
Priya Sippy & Jacob BoswallBBC News & BBC Monitoring ShareSave Al-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is the main group behind a surge in militant jihadist attacks sweeping across several West African nations, especially...
Nigeria, SA drive up intra-African trade by 12.4% to $220.3bn – Report
New National Star
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July 8, 2025
BY GLORIA AKUDORO The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has revealed that the Intra-African trade surged by 12.4 percent to $220.3 billion in 2024, compared with $196.04 billion in 2023. The African Trade Report launched by Afreximbank...
Who makes contemporary Uyghur art in Kazakhstan?
Global Voices
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July 8, 2025
Work by artist Nazugum Bakhtiyarova from the Sultan Kizlar collective. Text [in Russian]: “I would rather be a witness’ widow than a Bai [rich man’s] wife.” Photo by the Sultan Kizlar collective. Used with permission. In Kazakhstan, political or...
Mindware Adds Defense-Grade Cybersecurity to Its Portfolio Through Everfox Distribution Deal
MENAFN
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July 8, 2025
(MENAFN- Procre8) Dubai, UAE, 8th July, 2025: Mindware has signed a distribution agreement with Everfox (formerly Forcepoint Federal), strengthening its cybersecurity offering with a portfolio of high-assurance solutions trusted by government and...
Largest Mars Rock on Earth Could Sell For US$4 Million
ScienceAlert
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July 4, 2025
The most massive chunk of Mars ever found on Earth could sell for up to US$4 million in a Sotheby's auction later this month. Believed to be the largest individual Martian rock recovered so far, the meteorite (officially named NWA-16788) weighs in...
Analysis: Tit-for-tat strikes expose Houthi defiance and Israel’s limited options
The National News
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The latest exchanges between Israel and the Houthi rebels reflect how entrenched and emboldened the Yemeni group has become, undeterred by Israeli attempts to weaken its Iranian patron. The Israeli attack involved approximately 20 aircraft that...
OnePlus Nord 5, Nord CE 5 launched in India along with Buds 4; check price, open sale offers
Zee Business
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July 8, 2025
OnePlus Nord 5 Series Launched: OnePlus has officially launched its two highly anticipated additions to its Nord lineup in India — the OnePlus Nord 5 and the OnePlus Nord CE5 — along with the OnePlus Buds 4 on Tuesday, July 8. The Nord 5 is...
Coups in west Africa have five things in common: knowing what they are is key to defending democracy
The Conversation
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July 6, 2025
August 2025 makes it five years since Malian soldiers ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in a coup d’état. While the event reshaped Mali’s domestic politics, it also marked the beginning of a broader wave of military takeovers that swept...
Spain’s far-right party openly plans to deport ‘recently arrived’ immigrants
Olive Press
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July 8, 2025
SPAIN’s Vox party has openly called for the mass deportation of ‘recently arrived’ immigrants. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Vox’s demographic emergency spokesperson Rocío de Meer announced what she termed a ‘complex process of...
The Italian towns selling houses for €1
The Guardian
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July 8, 2025
If you could move anywhere, where would it be? This used to be a question I’d ask myself or others at dinner parties, but two years ago, as new parents facing the unsustainable costs of Bay Area life and the looming threat of middle-age atrophy,...
Mindware Expands Cybersecurity Reach with Everfox Distribution Agreement
IT News Africa
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July 8, 2025
Mindware has signed a distribution agreement with Everfox (formerly Forcepoint Federal), strengthening its cybersecurity offering with a portfolio of high-assurance solutions trusted by government and critical infrastructure sectors worldwide....
Southern cooperation, myth and redemption
Pressenza
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July 8, 2025
Between October 12, 1492, and the end of the second millennium, Western expansionism had a major influence on the global community. European empires, which originated in countries poor in raw materials, developed a system for finding natural...
Should you buy a cheap Android tablet from Amazon? This model is a surprisingly viable option (and the price is slashed for Amazon Prime Day)
ZDNet
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July 8, 2025
ZDNET's key takeaways This is a great value tablet, with a 12-inch display and running Android 15. While performance is on the lower end of the spectrum, this is still more tablet than most people need. The tri-fold case leaves a little to be...
Is the World Addicted to War?
Kashmir Life
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July 5, 2025
by Ghulam Mohammad Khan This is the core logic of necropolitics. The poorest communities suffer the most, their deaths framed as necessary sacrifices for national honour. In such a system, power is accountable only to itself. We live in an era...
Inheritors make efforts to preserve, revitalize intangible culture heritage in Tai'an, E China's Shandong
People's Daily Online
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Tai'an city in east China's Shandong Province is home to a rich array of intangible cultural heritage items, reflecting the wisdom and dedication of generations of artisans. Today, while preserving these cultural treasures, they are also finding...
Junior Tall Blacks fourth in the world, what happens next?
RNZ
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July 8, 2025
Junior Tall Blacks at Under-19 Basketball World Cup Photo: Supplied/FIBA The Junior Tall Blacks walked away from the Under-19 Basketball World Cup as the fourth best team in the world, and having made history, but their best could be yet to come....
On recent heatwave in Africa!
The Point
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Scientists from World Weather Attribution, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and Climate Central found that climate change had also doubled the number of heatwaves in the world. The research also identified 67 extreme heat events that...
Five Tottenham players fighting for their future under Thomas Frank this week
Football London
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July 8, 2025
Monday brought the return of the Tottenham players to the Hotspur Way pitches but under a new head coach in Thomas Frank. The Dane has begun to work with those squad members who have returned to the Enfield training complex with grass work...