2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (888+ words) Iran-aligned Houthi militants seized control of Yemen’s port city of Mocha on Thursday, military sources said, posing a further threat to global energy supplies hours after US President Donald Trump said he expected the war to end after US mid-term…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (492+ words) Hospitality group Southern Sun says the heightened anti-immigrant sentiment in South Africa in the first half of the year hurt transient travel, with travellers from the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) being cautious to travel. However, the group on Wednesday…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (267+ words) The UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation board of governors has passed a resolution reporting Iran to the UN Security Council for the first time in 20 years for breaching its nonproliferation obligations, diplomats said on Wednesday. The resolution follows up on a…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (489+ words) South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) president Barry Hendricks has been suspended with immediate effect, the umbrella body told members in a circular on Wednesday. The Sascoc board took the action at a special meeting held on Monday…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (665+ words) By Nerijus Adomaitis, Nora Buli and Terje Solsvik Oslo — Norway’s King Harald V was laid to rest on Wednesday, in a series of ceremonies marking the culmination of 13 days of national mourning following his death at the age of 89. Harald,…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (608+ words) By Andreas Rinke and Kirsti Knolle Berlin — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz accused the Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Wednesday of supporting Russia against Germany’s interests and advocating anti-migration policies that were tantamount to “ethnic cleansing”. Merz was addressing the German…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (605+ words) By Samya Kullab and Srdjan Nedeljkovic Kyiv — President Volodymyr Zelensky chided the international community on Wednesday for not taking a tougher stance against Russia over its escalating bombardment of civilian areas of Ukraine. At the end of August, Russia launched…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (328+ words) I am wrapping up a working visit to Southeast Asia, where I have been reading, writing and talking about subjects ranging from geostrategic tensions in the South China Sea to the way European colonial divisions continue to shape societies in…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (845+ words) Health & Science Correspondent The health department has conceded that the precipitous decline in childhood vaccination rates it recently published may have been skewed by potentially inaccurate population figures provided by Stats SA. The issue goes to the heart of concerns…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (335+ words) Copenhagen — Iceland summoned the US ambassador on Monday after President Donald Trump posted an image on social media showing the island and other countries covered by the American flag, local broadcaster RUV said. The map showed the US, Canada, Greenland,…...