7+ hour, 13+ min ago   (889+ words) Maritime trackers received new reports of an attack on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz ​on Sunday, adding to concerns about Iran-related threats to global energy supplies after Saudi Arabia shut down a vital oil pipeline. The British navy-affiliated…...

3+ day, 8+ min ago   (272+ words) A fire in Congo’s rebel-controlled city of Bukavu killed at least 24 children as it destroyed two schools and burned down around 300 wooden houses, an official from the rebel administration told Reuters on Thursday. The dead included 19 girls and five boys,…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (241+ words) A traditional Ugandan kingdom selected a television news anchor on Wednesday to succeed King Oyo Nyimba, who ​died last month aged 34 after becoming the ‌world’s youngest reigning monarch when he took the throne at age three. Oyo Nyimba died on…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (40+ words) LIVE: UK family murder suspect Ndodana Tshuma appears in court SABC News LIVE: UK family murder suspect Ndodana Tshuma appears in court The case against UK fugitive and multiple-murder suspect Ndodana Tshuma is due back in the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court....

6+ day, 45+ min ago   (119+ words) More than 16 000 suspects have been arrested during a week-long nationwide crime crackdown. The Shanela operations, conducted between 31 August and 6 September, also saw police seize illicit cigarettes worth more than R41-million, as well as copper and metal valued at R20-million. South…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (348+ words) The luxury carmaker, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors and has 17 sites in England, said it would cut around 4 000 jobs, targeting £1.7 billion ($2.30 billion) in savings and seeking to lower its break-even point towards 300 000 vehicles. JLR employs about 43 000 people globally,…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (101+ words) The Speaker of Council in the City of Johannesburg Margaret Arnolds has called on communities ravaged by gang violence to speak up. Arnolds has conveyed a message of condolences to the family of a 53-year-old scholar transport driver who was…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (340+ words) Hundreds of Burundians flocked to their country’s embassy in Kenya’s capital on Monday seeking travel documents to return to Burundi after Kenyan President William Ruto ordered a crackdown on small-scale traders from abroad. Clutching suitcases and assorted possessions, crowds of…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (153+ words) US envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that he felt ‘good’ about peace talks in both Moscow and Kyiv, adding that the US hoped to find a diplomatic solution to the war, which is now in its fifth year. Witkoff…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (131+ words) At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren and teenagers, were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine on Fogo, one of Cape Verde‘s islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa, national news agency Inforpress…...