MOSCOW. — Russian officials have said Ukraine and the West had a role in last week’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack despite vehement denials of involvement by Kyiv and a claim of responsibility by an affiliate of the Islamic State group.
A traveller arriving in Australia from Indonesia has been hit with an almost US$2,000 (around R33 000) fine after border guards detected two McMuffins and a ham croissant secretly squirrelled away in their backpack.
LUSAKA. – Joseph Chewe, a barbershop owner in Ng’ombe, a residential area in Lusaka, Zambia, now has to reschedule his business hours under the availability of electricity in the capital city’s staggered power cuts. In his neighbourhood,...
In 2007, Trump filed plans to build a 6-metre-high stone mausoleum with four obelisks on his golf course in New Jersey. The city called the plans "garish."
Ivan Zhakata Herald Correspondent ZIMBABWE has donated an additional US$500 000 to the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Zimbabwe to support the people of Palestine who are suffering in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Last December,...
CNN — Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday, organized by a pro-democracy movement in response to what they call a “hostile takeover” and...
Devastating flooding in Kentucky has killed 25 people and the toll is expected to rise, the southern US state's governor said Saturday, as rescuers and residents continued a harrowing search for survivors.
South Korea’s highest court has removed embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol from office, ending months of uncertainty and legal wrangling after he briefly declared martial law in December and plunged the nation into political turmoil....
ADDIS ABABA. – The head of Ethiopia’s biggest commercial bank has said that customers who withdrew more money than what was in their accounts because of a glitch cannot “escape” the law. Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) customers this...
NAIROBI. – In the early morning, students enter the Ethiopian Luban Workshop located in a three-storey building of a vocational training institute in eastern Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, where they are taught industrial skills and...
Nuuk, Greenland Reuters — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called Thursday for increased Arctic defense collaboration with the United States during a visit to Greenland, and firmly dismissed the US desire to annex the...
CNN — Two survivors have been pulled from under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Myanmar, more than five days after the country was struck by a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake. The miraculous rescues of the two men offer rare...
At least 45 people were killed and several others injured in a bus crash in Limpopo, South Africa, according to SABC News yesterday. “The bus went out of control, fell over a bridge and caught fire on the mountain pass between Mokopane...
CAIRO. — The rejection of a US-proposed draft resolution on a Gaza ceasefire at the UN Security Council la Friday has highlighted the “increasing global isolation” of the United States, experts said. Adel Abdel Ghafar, director of the...
JOHANNESBURG. – For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of...
CNN — The dramatic arrest of the Philippines’ controversial former president in March sent shock waves through much of the world – and cast a renewed spotlight on the other leaders wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC)....
GENEVA. — The UN weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and is warning that the...