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UNESCO selects Egypt’s minister El-Enany as new chief

Oakley Mason October 7, 2025

UNESCO The United Nation’s cultural agency UNESCO is set to select former Egyptian antiquities and tourism minister Khaled el-Enany as the organisation’s next director.  The body’s executive board voted on Monday by 55 to 2 in favor of El-Enany over Republic of Congo’s Édouard Firmin

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Trump sends troops to Portland

Oakley Mason October 6, 2025

USA US President Donald Trump has sent troops from California to Oregon after a court denied his attempt to deploy the National Guard in Portland. The deployment circumvents a Judge’s order blocking the deployment by instead using National Guard soldiers already serving in Los Angeles. California Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to file a lawsuit over the […]

Politics

You must accept peace deal or… Trump tells Hamas

Oakley Mason October 3, 2025

Washington President Donald Trump said he’s giving Hamas until 6 p.m. Sunday to accept the ceasefire proposal his administration offered this week to end the war in Gaza. “If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas,” Trump wrote Friday in a […]

Business

World Richest Man: Elon Musk hits $500 billion

Oakley Mason October 2, 2025

USA Tesla boss Elon Musk has become the first person in history to reach a personal net worth of more than half a trillion dollars.  As stocks in the electric car company rose in New York trading on Wednesday, Musk’s fortune briefly stood at $500.1 billion dollars, before falling back to $499 billion in later […]

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Four ways this shutdown could end

Oakley Mason October 1, 2025

USA Welcome to the shutdown, 2025 edition. On Tuesday evening, the US Senate was unable to pass a spending bill that would have kept the US government funded, and for the first time in nearly seven years, federal operations have been drastically curtailed. At some point, this shutdown – like all the ones before it […]

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US gov enters shutdown, raising fears of global uncertainty

Oakley Mason October 1, 2025

USA The federal government of the United States has officially entered a shutdown on Wednesday, after the US Senate failed to pass a short-term spending bill on Tuesday night. This marks the first US government shutdown in about seven years. The latest one lasted 35 days, from late 2018 to early 2019, and was the […]

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Netanyahu, Trump set to meet as pressure mounts to end Gaza war

Oakley Mason September 29, 2025

USA Days after his defiant speech at the United Nations rejecting demands to end the war in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to confer with his most important supporter. But Monday’s meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington comes at a tenuous moment. Israel is increasingly isolated, losing support from many countries […]

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Immigration officer tactics inflame tensions in New York

Oakley Mason September 27, 2025

USA A U.S. immigration officer shoving a woman in a New York City courthouse to the floor. Protesters dispersed with tear gas outside a Chicago detention center. A woman injured during an arrest in the Boston area. The incidents on Thursday and Friday highlight the growing tensions in major U.S. cities over President Donald Trump’s […]

Business

Trump says Tik Tok sales ready, values it at $14 billion

Oakley Mason September 26, 2025

USA President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday declaring that his plan to sell Chinese-owned TikTok’s U.S. operations to U.S. and global investors will address the national security requirements in a 2024 law. The new U.S. company will be valued at around $14 billion, Vice President JD Vance said, putting a price tag […]

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California bans law enforcements from wearing masks

Oakley Mason September 21, 2025

USA California’s governor has signed a bill to ban local and federal law enforcement officers, including with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), from wearing face masks while on duty. The ban, which comes into effect on 1 January 2026, is part of a series of bills that aims to protect residents from what Democratic […]