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South African parliament postpones state of the nation speech, piling pressure on President Zuma...
Jacob Zuma's scheduled State of the Nation Address in parliament has been postponed as pressure grows on him to step down as South Africa's...
US shares regain ground after big losses
US stock markets sank sharply at the opening bell, only to recover minutes later amid frantic Wall Street trading.
The main US indexes opened about...
Top ivory investigator stabbed to death in Kenya
One of the world's leading investigators into the illegal trade in ivory and rhino horn has been killed in Kenya.
Esmond Bradley Martin, age 75,...
Paris attacks suspect lambasts ‘anti-Muslim bias’
The sole surviving suspect from the 2015 Paris terror attacks is refusing to speak any further in a Belgian court, where he is on...
Trump accuses FBI leadership amid row over memo
US President Donald Trump has accused top officials of politicising FBI and justice department investigations to damage his Republican party.
Later today, he is expected...
All 955 workers from a gold mine in South Africa freed after being trapped...
All 955 workers from a gold mine in South Africa have been safely brought back to the surface.
They had been trapped underground since a...
Kenya TV stations to remain off-air after Opposition leader ‘inauguration’
Three of Kenya's biggest television stations will remain off-air until further notice because they had planned to broadcast the opposition leader's unofficial "inauguration" in...
USA Gymnastics doctor ‘abused 265 girls’
The number of known sexual abuse victims of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has grown to 265, a Michigan judge has said.
According to...
Kenyan authorities shut down TV stations to prevent live coverage of swearing-in event by...
Kenyan authorities today shut down TV stations to prevent live coverage of a swearing-in event by opposition leader Raila Odinga, who boycotted last year's...
Saudi anti-corruption drive generates $106 billion in settlements
A sweeping anti-corruption drive in Saudi Arabia has generated an estimated $106.7 billion in settlements, the kingdom's attorney general has said.
Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb said...
