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News24 | DR Congo conflict risks broader regional war, Burundi warns

Yesterday at 23:15 PM, via News24

The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo risks escalating into a broader regional war, Burundi’s president said on Saturday, as Africa’s top health agency warned the fighting could spark new outbreaks of serious diseases.

Business

News24 Business | Mexico vows retaliation to Trump tariffs

Today at 16:32 PM, via Fin24

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Saturday ordered retaliatory tariffs in response to the US decision to slap 25% tariffs on all goods coming from Mexico, as a trade war broke out between the two neighbours.

Sport

Keanu Cupido on his Sundowns move

Today at 16:44 PM, via The South African

There’s a new central defender at the Betway Premiership champions Mamelodi Sundowns. The name is Keanu Cupido from Cape Town City.

Education

‘I remember the exhilaration of the crowd and chanting’: artist Steve McQueen on his experience of resistance and protest

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

For the artist and film director acts of protest were as much a part of growing up as playing in the local park. Here he recalls his first encounters with activism

My first encounter with resistance was unbeknownst to me, and I was annoyed by it. At nine years old, I found myself attending Saturday school, missing Football Focus and not being with my friends playing in the local park. First my...

Education

Ron DeSantis tried to crusade against undocumented students. Florida is fighting back

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Latest anti-immigration agenda pushes to strip in-state tuition rates from tens of thousands of college students

It was a week in which two of Ron DeSantis’s flagship culture war crusades – education and immigration – collided. And it did not end well for Florida’s hard-right Republican governor.

Alongside a revolt by previously loyal lawmakers upset by DeSantis’s “power grab” in trying...

Education

Dynamic Black Marching Bands Are Super Bowl Stalwarts

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via New York Times

H.B.C.U. bands have been part of the festivities since the first halftime show. This year, Southern University’s “Human Jukebox” will perform before the national anthem.

Education

Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls

Yesterday at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring

Nearly one in four leading UK universities are slashing staff numbers and cutting budgets, with up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses, bringing calls for action to avoid damaging the sector’s international standing.

In the past week four universities, including two members of the research-intensive Russell...

Entertainment

Mr Men Box Set’s A Winner

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via The Citizen

The Mr. Men series is now available in a box set. It is nostalgia in dollops for parents and introduces a ton of fun to kids.

Science/Tech

DeepSeek AI Refuses To Answer Questions About Tiananmen Square ‘Tank Man’ Photo

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

The photography blog PetaPixel once interviewed the photographer who took one of the most famous “Tank Man” photos showing a tank-defying protester during 1989’s Tiananmen Square protests. But this week PetaPixel reported…A Reddit user discovered that the new Chinese LLM chatbot DeepSeek refuses to answer questions about the famous Tank Man photograph taken in Tiananmen Square in 1989....

Science/Tech

Sandra was estranged from her mother after experiencing childhood trauma. The grief when she died was complicated | Ahona Guha

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

It was important for Sandra to acknowledge her sadness but to disentangle it from concepts of guilt, shame and responsibility

The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work

For some of us, the death of a parent brings a period of bereavement and deep grief which slowly abates with the passing of time. For others, the story is more...