South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni warned on Sunday that the economy could shrink by more than the 7 percent forecast by policymakers and the central bank for 2020, adding that public finances are "overstretched". The economy of Africa's most industrialised nation contracted by more than half in the second quarter of this year, an unprecedented decline caused by anti-coronavirus restrictions.
The number of Covid-19 infections reported are above 706 000. (Overlay) Regrettably, there were 164 more COVID-19 related deaths. This brings the total number of COVID-19 related deaths to...
Bolivians took to the streets to protest and demand the cancellation of the results of recent elections, (Overlay) which handed victory to Luis Ari-see of MAS from Evo Morales' party. After...
A fast and affordable paper-based coronavirus test will soon be available across India, with scientists hopeful it will help turn the tide on the pandemic in one of the world's worst-hit...
Burundi's former president Pierre BORE-YOU-YAH has been sentenced to life in prison in absentia over the assassination of his successor in 1993, according to a court ruling on Tuesday....
US President Donald Trump says the upcoming presidential election is "a choice between a Trump super recovery or a Biden depression" during a rally in Carson City, Nevada. Trump hit the...
Thousands of Colombians arrived in the country's capital on Sunday, demanding a meeting with President Ivan Duque and an end to growing violence in their territories. However the...
Two people were injured last night after a collision near the Glenhove offramp in Melrose. Reports from the scene indicate that the accident occurred before 9pm and the two cars were...
As at last night 1 662 new cases were identified taking the number of infections reported above 703 000.Regrettably, there were 63 more COVID-19 related deaths: 9 from the Eastern Cape and...
South Africa’s Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize and his wife, have both tested positive for COVID-19. Mkhize tested on Saturday after starting to show mild symptoms. In a...
Several villagers in eastern Afghanistan said the recent withdrawal of foreign troops has left them exposed to militant attacks. In Nangarhar province, east of the Afghan capital Kabul,...
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and opposition leader Judith Collins are on a campaign trail ahead of Saturday's general election. Both Ardern and Collins were seen...
As at last night 1 178 new Covid-19 cases were identified. This takes the number of known cases in the country since the start of the outbreak above 694 000. The Department of Health has...
Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic took to the streets again yesterday, despite the renewal of emergency restrictions on...
Thousands of Indonesian workers are protesting against a controversial new law which critics fear will favour investors at the expense of labour rights and the environment.Labour activists...
Argentines protested in front of the Central Bank of Argentina against the International Monetary Fund, as an IMF mission to focus on the country's debt restructuring arrived into the...
Regrettably, there were 87 more COVID-19 related deaths - 4 from the Eastern Cape, 35 from KwaZulu Natal, 28 from Gauteng, 5 from North West and 15 from the Western Cape. This takes the...
Several labour federations including Cosatu and Fedusa have joined forces to protest against corruption,the state of the economy and government's failure to deal with gender-based...
US President Donald Trump tweeted today that he and the First Lady Melania, have both tested positive for the coronavirus. He further stated they will begin their quarantine and recovery...
EU leaders have agreed to impose sanctions from today, against members of the Belarus regime and also sent a stern warning to Turkey over its gas drilling activities in the eastern...
As at last night 1 745 new cases of Covid-19 were again identified in South Africa, taking the number of infections reported above 676 000. Regrettebly, there were 132 more COVID-19...
The lawyer of South Africa's Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya, barred from certain races unless she takes hormone-suppressants, is preparing to approach the European Court of Human...
International flights landed in South Africa yesterday for the first time in over six months, touching down amid a mix of emotions in some airports as coronavirus-linked travel...
Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou and her lawyers returned to a Canadian court on Monday to press for her release, arguing that the United States, by omitting key facts, blatantly...
Twelve more elephants have died in Zimbabwe, bringing the total death toll from a suspected bacterial infection outbreak to 34. The animals died between August and September this year in...
As at last night 903 new cases of Covid-19 were identified in South Africa, taking the number of infections reported above 671 000. Regrettably, there were 188 more COVID-19 related...
The Ministry of Health has announced plans to strengthen its Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19, so that it falls in line with its mandate to advise on effective mechanisms for the...
India has reported the number of coronavirus cases in the country had passed six million, as the pandemic rages across the vast South Asian nation. With over 6 million infections, India is...
Azerbaijani and Armenian forces battled for a second day after dozens were killed in an outbreak of heavy fighting that has raised fears of an all-out war between the longtime enemies....
Hundreds of mourners on Sunday buried two Gaza fishermen allegedly shot dead at sea, as the Palestinian fishing union blamed Egypt and demanded an investigation. Three brothers were...
Five suspects arrested in connection with alleged human trafficking appeared today in the Rustenburg and Kuruman Magistrate Courts. The five men were arrested on Sunday following a Hawks...
Mexican farmers are protesting against a decades-old water-sharing treaty with the United States and the death of a woman allegedly shot by the National Guard, during the occupation of the...
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun has warned the country was headed to "hell" if competing political forces did not step up and back a speedy cabinet formation to save the crisis-hit...
Top UK advisers have warned that England is expected to reach at least 50,000 coronavirus cases a day by mid-October and a surging death toll, unless the public gets serious about...
Rescuers faced a race against time to save nearly 200 whales stuck in a remote Australian harbor, hoping to prevent the toll of 90 dead from rising further after managing to free "a small...
Hundreds of elephants that had died mysteriously in July in Botswana's famed Okavango Deltasuccumbed to cyanobacteria poisoning, that’s according to the nation's wildlife department....
As at last night 725 new cases of Covid-19 were identified, taking the number of cases to 661 936 in South Africa. With over 591 000 recoveries, the recovery rate is now at 89,3%....
The World Health Organisation reports that over 60 high-income countries have joined the Covid-19 Vaccine Global Access known as COVAX. The United States and China are not among these...
Hundreds of people remain on the streets of the Greek island of Lesbos, after over 12,000 people were left homeless when Europe's largest asylum seeker camp Moria burned down on September...
The military junta that seized power in Mali last month says that the country could face a "total embargo" from West African countries if it does not quickly appoint civilian leaders. The...
A number of bereaved relatives of coronavirus victims in the Chinese city of Wuhan have attempted to sue the local government for concealing the outbreak when it first emerged, but have...
Explosions and a huge fire ripped through the port area of the Italian city of Ancona earlier today destroying warehouses and vehicles were destroyed lorries, no casualties were reported....
London residents are concerned after being turned away from a Covid-19 testing centre in the capital as increasing demand for coronavirus tests and delays in the system see people with...
US President Donald Trump says he expects Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the UAE...
Looking at Harrismith in the Free State, a serial rapist and murderer was handed a sentence that will see him languish in a jail cell for a long time after an eight-year reign of terror....
Hundreds of demonstrators rallied to call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's resignation, blocking roads to Ben Gurion airport, from where Netanyahu is due to fly to the...
South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni warned on Sunday that the economy could shrink by more than the 7 percent forecast by policymakers and the central bank for 2020, adding...
The city of Cape Town says it has demolished over 50,000 illegal structures in just over a month as land invasions increased during the Covid-19 lockdown. Land invaders insist they have...
With the funeral undertakers planned shut down on the collection of human remains from private and public health facilities. South Africa’s Health Department has raised concern, as...
As at last night 1 579 new cases of Covid-19 were identified, taking the number of cases above 649 000 in South Africa. With over 577 000 recoveries the recovery rate in the country...
Delegates from opposition Libyan administrations on Thursday agreed at talks in Morocco on criteria for appointments to the country's key institutions. They also agreed to pause the talks...
Singapore Airlines announced on Thursday it would cut about 4,300 jobs – that’s around 20 percent of its workforce -- due to the coronavirus. The airline warned that any...
A large fire is seen after a huge blast at a Jordanian military arms depot early this morning. The blast happened in the city of Zarqa, 25 kilometres east of the capital Amman, where...
As at last night 2,007 new cases of Covid-19 were identified, taking the number of cases to 644,438 in South Africa. The recovery rate has steadily risen to 88,9%. Regrettably, there...
The Government of South Africa has decided to extend the current state of disaster until October 15. Currently, the nation is on lockdown level 2 and there has been indication that there...
At least 18 miners were killed and 20 injured while more than a dozen were still trapped on Tuesday after a rockslide at a marble mine in northwest Pakistan. Boulders of white marble came...
Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni has denied the charges against him during his court appeal hearing and insisting that he was just doing his job in a case seen as a barometer of press...
South Africa’s delegation landed in crisis-hit Zimbabwe on Tuesday to mediate an end to a crackdown on conflict in the southern African country. Years of repression in Zimbabwe...
South Africa's economy was already in recession, its second in two years -- when it was hit by the coronavirus, and had shrunk by two percent during the first three months of 2020....
Greece's largest migrant camp on the island of Lesbos was gutted by a huge fire early this morning, leaving over 13,000 fleeing asylum seekers homeless. Reports received indicate that the...
Coloradans were leaving the suntan lotion on Tuesday and pulling out warm gloves and boots as the western US state went from blazing summer heat to snowfall in just one day. In the state...
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said it had "voluntarily paused" a randomized clinical trial of its coronavirus vaccine in what it called a routine action after a volunteer developed an...
As at last night 1 079 new cases of covid-19 were identified, taking the number of cases above 640 000 in South Africa. The number of people who have recuperated from the virus has...
While two more generation units are expected to return to service today, Stage 1 load shedding will be implemented from 4pm until 10pm today. Eskom said they will continue to communicate...
Powerful Typhoon Haishen approached South Korea this morning after slamming southern Japan with record winds and heavy rains that prompted evacuation warnings for millions. This morning,...
Nearly 300 Rohingya migrants came ashore on Indonesia's Sumatra Island early this morning. Authorities said, the latest arrivals is one of the largest groups of the persecuted Myanmar...
India overtook Brazil on Monday to become the second-worst affected country in terms of coronavirus cases. The United States still remains the worst affected country. India has also...
As at last night 1 633 new cases of covid-19 were identified, taking the number of cases above 638 000 in South Africa. Gauteng remains the epicenter of the virus with over 212 000...
Eskom resumed with Stage 1 load shedding and will continue until 4pm. It will then escalate to Stage 2 until 10pm. This pattern will be repeat on Tuesday, with a high likelihood for...
Police fired pepper-spray projectiles at protesters who gathered at Rochester's Public Safety Building in the United States. Several hundred peaceful demonstrators marched on Thursday in...
Indian warships on Thursday aided Sri Lanka's navy to extinguish a fire on a massive oil tanker off the island's eastern coast. Sri Lankan authorities said there was no immediate danger to...
As at last night 2 420 new cases were identified taking the number of Covid-19 cases above 633 000 in South Africa. Recoveries in the country from Covid-19 have risen above 554 000, taking...
Due to the reduced demand and change in weather, Eskom will reduce loadshedding to Stage 3 until 10pm today. In order to replenish the emergency generation reserves, loadshedding will...
In a Bahrain exhibition centre that used to hold events before the coronavirus pandemic, masked volunteers are waiting for a dose of a trial vaccine. Chinese drug giant Sinopharm began...
Australia has entered its first recession since 1991 after the economy shrank 7 percent in the second quarter, as the country reels from the coronavirus pandemic. The Australian...
At least 100 protesters marched and demanded answers in a south Los Angeles neighbourhood where sheriff's deputies shot and killed 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, a black man initially stopped...
Recoveries in South Africa from Covid-19 have risen above 549 000. This translates to a recovery rate of 87% in the country. As at last night 1 218 new cases were identified taking the...
Power cuts will continue today until 10pm. Eskom says this is due to severe generation supply constraints as a result of multiple unit breakdowns. Ten generation units at seven power...
Power cuts will continue today until 10pm. Eskom says this is due to severe generation supply constraints as a result of multiple unit breakdowns. Ten generation units at seven power...
The Day of Ashura in Morocco has traditionally been a day of celebration and joy. However this year, clashes erupted between Moroccan residents and security forces after the...
Indian forces opened fire with shotgun pellets and tear gas on a procession by hundreds of Muslims in troubled Kashmir on Saturday. According to reports dozens of people who had ignored a...
Johannesburg’s ex-Mayor, Herman Mashaba launched his own party on Saturday. Last year Mashaba quit the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA). It was in 2016 when Mashaba was...
The number of Covid-19 cases increased above 625 000 in South Africa. Another 47 more COVID-19 related deaths were reported. This brings the total number of COVID-19 related deaths to 14...
UNESCO said it will take "several hundred million dollars" to restore Beirut's heritage damaged by the explosion of the port on August 4th. The UN's culture and education body will...
Digital activism has reportedly surged in South Africa this year, with four million new users signing up to an online petition platform called Change.org to support causes linked to...
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced yesterday that authorities will probe alleged corruption with public funds meant for the fight against the coronavirus...
Police fired teargas, stun grenades and rubber bullets yesterday to repel hundreds of angry protesters in Eldorado Park, a Johannesburg suburb following the shooting of a disabled teenage...
Hurricane Laura has made landfall in Louisiana as a category 4 hurricane. US weather officials warned the hurricane is extremely dangerous, with a catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds,...
A nineteen year old was reportedly killed on impact after an aircraft, called the Cessna 172, crashed near Springs Airfield last night. The light aircraft was undertaking a training...
Survivors who were shot by Brenton Tarrant last year during his attack at the Christchurch mosque have reacted with relief to the sentencing of the gunman. New Zealand mosque gunman...
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Greece to avoid taking steps that could lead to its "ruin" as tensions between the neighbours escalate in the eastern...
Greece said it will launch military exercises with France, Italy and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, the focus of escalating tensions between Athens and Ankara. Greece Defence...
A Zambian court on Tuesday cleared the country's health minister of corruption charges, citing lack of evidence to back the allegations. Zambia’s Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya,...
Rwanda has issued an international warrant of arrest for a top former Rwandan military official, Aloys Ntiwiragabo, who is under investigation in France over his role in the country's 1994...
In addition to the 14 airports already operating in South Africa - four more airports have been given the green light to resume operations. Addressing a media briefing on Tuesday Transport...
NBA player George Hill said he had more on his mind today than the Bucks' NBA playoff win over Orlando. Hill called the police shooting of a black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, "sickening."...
Two survivors of the New Zealand mosque massacre abandoned their prepared statements and opted to express to the unemotional gunman Brenton Tarrant in court, how his actions worsened his...
Rescue teams and sniffer dogs in western India are search the rubble for survivors after a five-storey apartment building collapsed with up to 70 reportedly buried underneath. The accident...
Relatives of the 51 Muslims killed in the Christchurch shooting last year gave emotional statements to a New Zealand court, as the sentencing hearing for the gunman continued earlier today...
People rushed to buy food yesterday after a sudden announcement of 48 hours curfew in the Gaza Strip. This comes after four COVID-19 cases were recorded in a refugee camp in the central...
No injuries were reported at a structural fire at the Grey Street Mosque yesterday in Durban, KwaZulu Natal. According to reports, the fire is believed to have started in the kitchen of...
