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Knowsley records lowest GCSE top-grade rate
Exam data show Knowsley recorded only 8% of GCSE results at grade 7 or above in the latest academic year, the lowest rate of any English council…
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NECO registrar Wushishi elected AEAA vice-president
Prof. Dantani Wushishi, registrar and chief executive officer of Nigeria's National Examinations Council (NECO), was elected vice-president of the…
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South Africa police arrest suspects after meth lab discovery
South African police raided a farm near Musina in Limpopo after a two-month probe and arrested five people including two Mexican nationals, two…
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Iran vows devastating response to new US threats
U.S. officials said they will impose unprecedented financial penalties aimed at toppling Iran's leadership, with treasury chief Scott Bessent set to…
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Nigeria pledges support to trainers to build oil and gas workforce
Nigeria is positioning itself to develop a world-class oil and gas workforce as investor confidence rises and many projects move toward final…
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Judge throws out espionage counts against former Google engineer
A federal judge, Vince Chhabria, threw out seven economic espionage convictions against former Google engineer Linwei Ding on the ground that…
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UAE ministry sets review fees for higher education accreditation
UAE's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research adopted a resolution that sets review fees for higher education and technical and…
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U.S. deports more than 160 people to Haiti
The United States returned 161 people to Haiti on Aug. 20, 2026, in the first deportation since courts cleared a path to end Temporary Protected…
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Karzai urges Taliban to reverse women's restrictions
Hamid Karzai said the Taliban will struggle to gain international legitimacy while they bar girls from secondary schools and universities and sharply…
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Myanmar military clears areas for Dawei special economic zone
Myanmar's military has deployed hundreds of troops, supported by air and naval forces, to clear territory around the Dawei special economic zone…
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Eastern Cape high court rules department unlawfully withheld school funding
The Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda found that the provincial education department's decision to withhold 33.75% of each school's funding…
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CFTC advisory committee debates prediction market rules
The CFTC held its first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting with more than 30 members from firms including Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, Robinhood…
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Taiwan proposes 18% increase in defense budget
Taiwan's government proposed an 18% rise in defense spending for 2027 that would lift the budget to T$1.1225 trillion, pushing military outlays above…
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Research finds possible military insider trading on Polymarket
A nonprofit analysis of Polymarket International transactions found signs that more than 150 trader wallets may have used inside U.S. military…
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Connecticut farm owner charged after infant dies in hot car
Kevin Pell, 47, was arrested after his one-year-old son was found unresponsive in the back of a vehicle at Pell Family Farm in East Windsor. Pell…
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CPS Technologies signs lease for 80,000-square-foot Attleboro facility
CPS Technologies announced a long-term lease for an 80,000-square-foot facility in Attleboro, Mass., roughly twice the size of its current location…
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Kurdish forces integrated into Syrian state institutions
Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi announced that the integration of Kurdish military, security and administrative institutions into Syria's state…
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Detroit-based drug and money laundering network dismantled
Federal and local authorities uncovered and dismantled a Detroit-based drug trafficking and money laundering organization that operated in five…
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Germany identifies suspected 1970 arsonist in Munich Jewish centre attack
Prosecutors in Munich say they have compelling grounds to identify a 25-year-old lone neo-Nazi as the perpetrator of a 13 February 1970 arson that…
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Poland arrests Ukrainian suspect in plot to kill arms official
Poland arrested a Ukrainian man identified as Serhii P. who is accused of planting an improvised explosive device under a car used by a…
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Abu Dhabi authorizes Coinbase tokenized securities operations
Coinbase shares jumped after Abu Dhabi Global Market regulators granted a financial services permission that allows Coinbase to operate a…
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Pakistan cabinet approves defence laws to formalize chief of defence forces
Pakistan's federal cabinet approved two draft laws — the Defence Forces Act, 2026, and amendments to the National Command Authority Act, 2010 — and…
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11 convicted over attempt to smuggle cannabis into UK
Eleven people were convicted for attempting to smuggle 460kg of cannabis, valued at £13.8 million, into the UK via Birmingham Airport after…
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Vietnam proposes abolishing death penalty for six offences
Vietnam's government has presented a draft amendment to the penal code that would remove the death penalty for six offences, including rioting, the…
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