The US Senate has held a marathon voting session through the night on a sprawling budget bill that is critical to President Donald Trump's agenda.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act - running to nearly 1,000-pages - includes increased spending for (...)
After days of uncertainty and negotiations, the funeral arrangements for Zambia's former president have been finalised.
Edgar Lungu, who led Zambia from 2015 to 2021, died 11 days ago in South Africa where he was receiving treatment for an (...)
Fears of crime and gang violence in the notorious townships on the outskirts of the South African city of Cape Town are forcing some parents to make difficult decisions to send their children on long daily commutes to former white-only (...)
Namrata Nangia and her husband have been toying with the idea of having another child since their five-year-old daughter was born. But it always comes back to one question: 'Can we afford it?' She lives in Mumbai and works in pharmaceuticals, her (...)
Spain has canceled a deal to purchase anti-tank missile systems that were to be manufactured in Madrid by a subsidiary of an Israeli company in a bid to move away from Israeli military technology, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
The decision (...)
On the one hand, antibiotics are being overused until they no longer work, driving resistance and fuelling the rise of deadly superbugs. On the other hand, people are dying because they can't access these life-saving drugs.
A new study by the (...)
A suspect wanted for the murder of a South African university student has been killed in a shootout with police.
The man had been linked to the death of Olorato Mongale, whose body was found in Johannesburg on Sunday, about two hours after she was (...)
The Israeli military has deployed nine additional infantry and armored brigades into the Gaza Strip within the last 24 hours, signaling a further escalation in its ground offensive across the enclave, Israel's public broadcaster KAN reported Friday, (...)
US President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to forcefully confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing the country of failing to address Trump's baseless claim of the systematic killing of white farmers.
In an astonishing (...)
Three months into Donald Trump's second term, foreign leaders should be aware that a coveted trip to the Oval Office comes with the risk of a very public dressing down, often straying into attempts at provocation and humiliation.
Wednesday's episode (...)
Afrikaners who have resettled in the US under a controversial refugee scheme, labeling them "cowards".
The white South Africans arrived in the US on Monday after being granted refugee status by the Trump administration, which says they face racial (...)
A group of 59 white South Africans has arrived in the US, where they are to be granted refugee status.
President Donald Trump has said the refugee applications for the country's Afrikaner minority had been expedited as they were victims of "racial (...)
How do you measure misery? For journalists, the usual way is to see it, to feel it, to smell it.
Beleaguered Palestinian colleagues in Gaza are doing that, still doing invaluable reporting at great risk to themselves. More than 200 have been killed (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Export Development Authority organized a trade mission in cooperation with the Saudi-American Business Council, with the participation of the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources, and the Saudi Export-Import Bank. The (...)
The Trump administration will admit more than two dozen white South Africans as refugees next week, despite the ongoing suspension of most U.S. refugee resettlement programs, officials and documents confirmed Friday.
According to a document obtained (...)
South African firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema says he has been denied a visa to attend a conference in the UK on 10 May.
Malema said the UK had no "substantial justification" for its decision, and he saw it as an "attempt to silence a (...)
The Israeli army announced Saturday that it is issuing call-up orders to tens of thousands of reservists as it prepares to expand its military operations in the Gaza Strip, further intensifying an already devastating conflict.
The military said the (...)
The mother of a South African girl, who disappeared aged six more than a year ago, has been convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her daughter.
Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn were arrested after (...)
Tanzania has banned all agricultural imports from South Africa and Malawi in the latest episode of a growing trade row.
"We are taking this step to protect our business interests. This is business - in business, we must all respect each other," (...)
The Trump administration is looking at closing nearly 30 overseas embassies and consulates as it eyes significant changes to its diplomatic presence abroad, according to an internal State Department document obtained by CNN.
The document also (...)
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly dismissed claims that white citizens are being persecuted in South Africa, calling the allegations a "completely false narrative".
His comments come amid accusations from US President Donald (...)
Namibia's new president was sworn in on Friday to lead a country facing high rates of unemployment, inequality and poverty.
And she will be dealing with it with the additional burden of being only Africa's second-ever directly elected female (...)
It was late at night on 10 December 1987 when prison officers had woken Mzolisi Dyasi in his cell in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.
He remembers the bumpy drive to a hospital morgue where he was asked to identify the bodies of his pregnant (...)
As a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle and himself a victim of the inequities of that racist system of government, Ebrahim Rasool was always unlikely to mince his words when it came to assessing the new US administration.
But in a message to (...)
A group of scientists due to work together for months at a remote Antarctic research station has been rocked after a member of the team was accused of assault.
About 10 researchers typically stay at the South African-run base, which sits about 170km (...)
