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China's population falls for a third straight year, posing challenges for its government and economy 2025-01-17
Moosejaw Today

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for...

photo: AP / Ng Han Guan

Egypt arrests journalist, wife of jailed cartoonist after interview 2025-01-16
CPJ

Washington, D.C., January 16, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns Egypt’s January 16 arrests of Nada Mougheeth, wife of imprisoned cartoonist Ashraf Omar, and journalist Ahmed Serag, who was detained after interviewing Mougheeth about Omar’s ongoing detention and alleged...

photo: AP / Amr Nabil

In record year, China, Israel, and Myanmar are world’s leading jailers of journalists 2025-01-16
CPJ

China, Israel, and Myanmar emerged as the world’s three worst offenders in another record-setting year for journalists jailed because of their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2024 prison census has found. Belarus and Russia rounded out the top five, with CPJ documenting its...

photo: AP / Lintao Zhang, Pool

South Africa ends mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors 2025-01-16
Daily Bulletin

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies after hundreds of miners were trapped for months in one of...

photo: AP / Photo/Themba Hadebe

Ghana to probe former president's huge cathedral project 2025-01-15
Knoxville Daily Sun

Ghana's newly elected President John Mahama has announced plans to investigate his predecessor's contested $400 million National Cathedral project, a stalled religious landmark that for critics become a symbol of fiscal irresponsibility. Mahama and his National Democratic Congress or NDC party...

photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

News24 | Sandton man charged with terror financing donated bitcoin to group that 'funded al-Qaeda' 2025-01-15
News24

A Syrian organisation to which a Sandton man donated R11 500 in bitcoin was investigated by US authorities for financing "al-Qaeda and affiliated foreign terror organisations" through the use of cryptocurrencies. ......

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3 Chinese citizens sentenced to 7 years in prison for illegal mining in Congo 2025-01-15
Wtop

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Three Chinese citizens were sentenced Tuesday to 7 years in prison and ordered to pay $600,000 in fines for illegally exploiting mineral resources in Congo, according to court filings. The ruling marks the first time foreign mineral brokers have been convicted for unauthorized...

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82 miners rescued, 36 dead in South Africa mine operation 2025-01-15
China Daily

JOHANNESBURG -- A total of 118 illegal miners were brought to the surface during rescue operations at an abandoned gold mine on Monday and Tuesday in Stilfontein in South Africa's North West Province, with 36...

photo: AP / Photo/Themba Hadebe

Getting rich without getting fat: The challenge of developing countries 2025-01-15
The Jakarta Post

T he global effort to eradicate hunger by 2030 is facing a gradual challenge. After world hunger decreased from around 19 percent to 11 percent of the worldwide population in 2014,...

photo: AP / Mark Lennihan

Dozens of illegal miners have died while trapped in South African mine, group says 2025-01-14
Toronto Sun

JOHANNESBURG — At least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried to force them out, a group representing the miners said Monday. More than 500...

photo: AP / Themba Hadebe