Thursday 31st July 2025. Nigeria nurses strike. Kenya cult exhumation. Angola protest deaths. Tunisia transport strike...

World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 31st July 2025

Today: Nigeria nurses strike. Kenya cult exhumation. Angola protest deaths. Tunisia transport strike. UK Palestine Action. Russia earthquake. Pakistan India account. China tropical storm. Australia YouTube ban. Haiti France reparations. Saint Lucia same-sex laws. Greece marine reserves.

With Juliet Martin

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is Send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm Juliet Martin and today is Thursday, the thirty first
of July twenty twenty five. We start in Africa today.

(00:26):
In Nigeria, nurses have begun a seven day strike. They
are asking for better pay, working conditions and more hiring.
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives says that
if their demands are not met this week, they will
begin an indefinite strike on Tuesday. A meeting between the

(00:52):
union and the government failed to come to a solution.
In Kenya, a court has ordered the exhumation of bodies
that are suspected to be linked to cult related deaths.
In twenty twenty three, the bodies of over four hundred

(01:12):
members of a doomsday cult were found in Shakahola Forest.
Investigators now suspect that more bodies are buried in shallow
graves in the same county. Kenya's Office of the Director
of Public Prosecutions said the victims may have been staffed

(01:33):
and suffocated as a result of adopting and promoting extreme
religious ideologies. Angola's government has said that the death toll
from protests over an increase in fuel prices has risen
to twenty two. In a statement, the government said that

(01:55):
one hundred and ninety seven people have been injured and
two hundred and fourteen arrested. In Tunisia, transport workers began
a strike yesterday. They're asking for better pay, working conditions
and reforms Europe. In the United Kingdom, a pro Palestinian

(02:24):
campaign group has succeeded in bringing a legal challenge against
the government's decision to ban it. Palestine Action was banned
under anti terrorism laws on the sixth of July, making
it a crime to be a member. London's High Court

(02:44):
has now granted the group a judicial review, saying it
is reasonably arguable that the ban is a disproportionate interference
to the right to freedom of expression. In Russia, a
magnitude eight point eight earthquake hit the Kamchatka Coast yesterday.

(03:07):
This was the most powerful earthquake in the region since
nineteen fifty two. It caused tsunami warnings in French, Polynesia
and Chile, and evacuations in Japan and Hawaii. After the earthquake,
the Khluchevskoy volcano began erupting. It is one of the

(03:28):
highest volcanoes in the world, Asia and Oceania. Pakistan's Foreign
ministry has said that India's account of the death of
three militants in Kashmir this week was quote replete with fabrications.

(03:49):
India's Home Minister Amit Shah said the militants responsible for
an attack on Hindu tourists in April had been killed
in a gun battle. In China, more than two hundred
and eighty thousand people have been relocated in Shanghai due

(04:10):
to a tropical storm. Hundreds of flights and ferry services
were also canceled. Storm Chome reached land yesterday, with a
month's worth of rain expected to fall in six hours.
Australia's government will include YouTube in its social media ban

(04:34):
for teenagers. The government had previously exempted YouTube from the ban.
Communications Minister Anika Wells said the rules are designed to
protect children online.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
We are implementing these rules and this law on behalf
of parents who want and deserve better protections for their
kids online. We want kids to know who who they
are before platforms assume who they are, which is why
I want to be clear about YouTube. The evidence cannot

(05:09):
be ignored that four out of ten Australian kids report
that their most recent harm was on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
In Heiti, over sixty rights groups have called for French
President Emmanuel Macran to offer billions of dollars of reparations
to the country. Hei t paid France compensation after gaining independence.
In a letter, the group said the wealth extracted under

(05:41):
this ransom set Heiti's GDP growth back by decades. A
Saint Lucia court has overturned laws that criminalize same sex relations,
according to LGBT rights groups. The groups have said this
is a quote historic win, affirming the dignity of LGBTQ

(06:06):
plus people in Saint Lucia and Greece plans to create
two new marine reserves in the Ionian Sea and the
Southern Cichlides. Greece will become the first country in Europe
to completely ban bottom trawling fishing in protected areas by

(06:30):
twenty thirty. Brazil and Spain have also announced new marine
reserves and restrictions on trawling. That's your world news in
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(06:53):
sending an email to podcast at senseven dot org. I'm
Juliet Martin and tomorrow you will be with Stephen Devin Chenzi.
Have a great day.