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Maduro ‘kidnapping’ a threat to global peace: Mbalula

Today at 16:51 PM, via SowetanLIVE

The ANC has condemned the US’s military strike and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his family, labelling it a violation of international law and an affront to Venezuela’s sovereignty.

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Police rescue 10 half-naked teenage trafficking victims

Today at 16:48 PM, via SowetanLIVE

Gauteng police and a private security company have rescued 10 half-naked teenagers who are foreign nationals and were seen walking in Mulbarton in the south of Johannesburg wearing only their underwear.

World

News24 | What to know about Trump’s plan on Venezuela

Today at 15:58 PM, via News24

Following the abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, United States President Donald Trump said Washington would “run” the Latin American country until a transition was complete, but a day later, his top diplomat said the US does not want to govern the country.

Education

Many schools don’t think students can read full novels anymore. That’s a tragedy | Margaret Sullivan

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Increasingly, teens are given only parts of books, and they often read not in print but on school-issued laptops

Reading fiction has been such a joy for me that my heart broke a little to learn recently that many schools no longer assign full books to high school students.

Rather, teens are given excerpts of books, and they often read them not in print but on school-issued laptops, according to...

Education

It’s not easy being an English northerner surrounded by southerners. Here’s how we survive | Robyn Vinter

Today at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

University undergraduates are forming northern societies, but in other circumstances we find different ways to be ourselves

Of course they weren’t being mean, but each time my university friends jokingly echoed my Leeds-accented “no” with a noise that is perhaps best approximated as “nerhhh”, I found myself undergoing elocution conditioning. Within a year, the identifying...

Science/Tech

Microsoft Office Is Now ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot App’

Today at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

Longtime reader joshuark shares a report: As spotted by Bluesky user DodgerFanLA, going to Office.com now greets you with the following helpful explainer: “The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) lets you create, share, and collaborate all in one place with your favorite apps now including Copilot.*” Never has an asterisk been more relevant to me than following the words “your favorite...