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Amnesty International welcomed the transfer but said Guantanamo would remain a ‘glaring, longstanding stain’ on the US.

The SA Local Government Bargaining Council has ordered that the five City of Tshwane senior

An Eldorado Park police officer accused of killing his girlfriend with his state-issued firearm has made his first court appearance.

Evacuations were underway in Ethiopia Saturday after a series of earthquakes, the strongest of which, a 5.8-magnitude jolt, rocked the remote north of the Horn of Africa nation.

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and the South African Communist Party’s Solly Mapaila may hold differing views on the government of national unity (GNU), but they have a common understanding of advancing the national democratic revolution.

[Capital FM] Nairobi — Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang says the government is considering the shift system of learning amid concerns over the construction of Grade 9 classrooms.

[Liberian Investigator] Grand Kru — The administration, faculty, and staff of Grand Kru Technical College (GKTC) rolled out a warm and colorful welcome for the institution’s Acting President, Prof. Dr. Josephus M. Gray, on Friday, January 3, 2025. The event, held in the conference room of GKTC’s Monrovia office at Broad and Gurley Streets, marked Dr. Gray’s return from a significant...

A 65-year-old patient in the United States with underlying medical conditions has died from bird flu. According to NBC News, “health officials considered the case to be the “country’s first severe human H5N1 infection.” From the report: The Louisiana Department of Health said the patient had been exposed to a combination of a backyard flock and wild birds. “The Department expresses its deepest...

Google DeepMind is forming a new team to develop AI models capable of simulating the physical world. It’s being led by former OpenAI Sora co-lead Tim Brooks and builds on Google’s Gemini, Veo, and Genie projects. “DeepMind has ambitious plans to make massive generative models that simulate the world,” Brooks wrote on X. “I’m hiring for a new team with this mission.” TechCrunch reports:...

At CES 2025, AMD unveiled the Z2, Z2 Go, and Z2 Extreme chipsets — all powered by Zen 5 CPU cores and designed for handheld gaming PCs. IGN reports: The AMD Zen 2 Extreme, along with lower-specced cousins the Z2 and Z2 Go, are powered by Zen 5 CPU cores. While the Zen 2 Extreme is using a RDNA 3.5-based GPU, the Z2 and Z2 Go are still using RDNA 3 and RDNA 2, respectively. This creates an...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Defense Department said on Monday it has added Chinese tech giants including gaming and social media leader Tencent Holdings and battery maker CATL to a list of firms it says work with China’s military. The list also included chip maker Changxin Memory Technologies, Quectel Wireless and drone maker Autel Robotics, according to a...

The deceased was over 65 and had other medical conditions, state officials said.

Sara Mearns, the New York City Ballet principal, announced her 10-year struggle on Instagram. She tested out her new hearing aids in “The Nutcracker.”

A new study assesses the effects of sugar-laden beverages on global health, with higher rates of consumption found in Latin America and parts of Africa.

Venomous snakes bite millions of people each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment.

SA’s top young scientists captivated the audience at the 9th BRICS Young Scientists Forum. Mfanelo Ndlela’s Smart Water Management System caused a stir, shining hope on the future of SA’s water infrastructure.

In the space of just a month, Wall Street’s biggest banks have quit what had been one of the most popular clubs inside global finance.

A doctoral student’s backyard discovery has turned into a scientific breakthrough – the newly discovered dung beetle, named after the Egyptian goddess Hathor, is protected by aggressive ants.

Electric vehicles could solve a number of problems but have been slow to take off in Africa. Its biggest economy, South Africa, had only about 1 000 electric vehicles by 2022, say MJ Booysen and Joubert Van Eeden.