German Chancellor Friedrich Merz credited U.S. President Donald Trump with persuading Russia's President to agree to a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart.

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The accused Los Angeles drug dealer known as the "ketamine queen" has agreed to plead guilty to charges that she supplied the dose of the prescription anesthetic that killed "Friends" star Matthew ...

This past week marked two monumental but very different anniversaries — the surrender of Japan in World War 2 and the publication of George Orwell’s immensely powerful allegory, Animal Farm.

Malawi works well for the elite with access to forex and inside the system; for the other 80% comprising the rural poor, squeezed between rapidly rising demography and diminishing farm plots, it’s a ...

In the latest episode of Politically Aweh, the drama goes global. Comedians KG Mokgadi and Zoë Human unpack the stormy South Africa-US relationship, from awkward Oval Office encounters to high-stakes ...

Two people were arrested in a major breakthrough for the Hawks after a spate of kidnappings in Nelson Mandela Bay over the past year.

A leader of the union on strike against Air Canada AC.TO said on Monday he would risk jail time rather than allow cabin crews to be forced back to work by a federal labor board, raising the stakes in ...

In 2023, two billion women and girls and 1.8 billion men and boys had no access to social protection. Even when women are relatively well covered, benefit levels remain inadequate.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States would help Europe in providing security for Ukraine as part of any deal to end Russia's war in Ukraine, as he and President Volodymyr ...

On a crisp, bright Wednesday afternoon this week, it was impossible not to feel tears rise alongside anger. The crowd had gathered in Cape Town to rail against another evil. Israel’s killing of ...