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At least six other people killed and many wounded in an Israeli raid on a house in Jabalia al-Nazla in northern Gaza.

Formal extradition request sent by Dhaka for her return to face trial.

Holiday cheer absent, with no Christmas tree or decorations adorning Church of Nativity, revered as birthplace of Jesus.

After Monday’s ratification of contested October elections, a new wave of protests is under way.

Christmas came early for more than one hundred underprivileged children and their families this week when the Michelle Davids Foundation hosted lunch and handed out gifts at the Seawinds Community Centre.

Counterfeit alcohol, which poses serious health risks, including blindness, nerve damage, and even death, is a growing concern in South Africa, according to Angela Russell, CEO of the Drinks Federation of South Africa.

Country’s top electoral court confirms ruling Frelimo party’s win, raising fears as opposition promises more protests.

The US was disappointed by some UN Security Council (UNSC) members who resisted directly blaming Rwanda for the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mozambique’s top court on Monday confirmed the ruling party Frelimo’s victory in an October election which has sparked massive protests by opposition groups who say the vote was rigged.

Airlink cancelled two flights from Maputo to Cape Town and Johannesburg on Tuesday morning.

This year has mostly been load shedding-free, but will South Africa will be spared in 2025?

The ANC has welcomed Mozambique’s highest court’s decision reaffirming the Frelimo party’s Daniel Chapo as president-elect.

The president and vice president of the University of Michigan’s student assembly were impeached after they demanded divestment and stopped funding campus activities.

[Capital FM] Nairobi — The Engineering Board of Kenya (EBK) has directed Northwestern Christian University-Kenya to withdraw Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi’s Honorary Doctorate Degree certificate, citing unauthorized use of the title “Engineer.”

[Ghanaian Times] The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Thursday granted presidential charters to 14 private University Colleges across the country.

[AIM] Maputo — Mozambique’s National Association of Teachers (ANAPRO) has claimed that the teachers’ boycott of final exams in primary and secondary schools affected about 35,000 students across the country.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In a landmark ruling, the Court of Milan has ordered (PDF) Cloudflare to block pirate streaming services that offer Serie A football matches. The court found that Cloudflare’s services are instrumental in facilitating access to live pirate streams, undermining Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield’ legislation. The order, which applies in Italy, affects...

The UK Post Office has appointed Paul Anastassi as interim CTO amid efforts to replace its controversial Horizon IT system, which led to hundreds of wrongful convictions of subpostmasters due to software errors since 1999. The appointment, the news of which an anonymous reader shared, comes as the Post Office grapples with its $1.25 billion over-budget New Branch IT project, which was recently...

Mass game shutdowns and service terminations marked 2024 as a pivotal year for digital ownership concerns in the gaming industry. PC Gamer adds: The arguments have been around forever, but they’ve been made concrete by the simple fact that, over the last decade in particular, we’ve seen more and more games simply disappear. And we’re not talking about obscure hobbyist projects, but seriously...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Over the past year, OpenAI has dropped not-so-subtle hints about its revived interest in robotics: investing in startups developing hardware and software for robots such as Figure and Physical Intelligence and rebooting its internal robotics software team, which it had disbanded four years ago. Now, OpenAI could be taking that interest to the next level. The...

The self-help phenom’s new book is all about letting others do as they may. Can she follow her own advice?

There is no one factor that causes autism — or explains its growing prevalence. Researchers are seeking explanations for the surge. Here are some possibilities.

In crowded Kinshasa, two strains of mpox are sweeping through a community that relies on selling sex. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sent to the country have not been used.

A white Christmas may increasingly become a nostalgic memory as the Northern Hemisphere sees ever fewer snowy winter days due to climate change, with Europe warming quickest, a report warned on Tuesday.

South Africa’s grand hydrogen ambitions could be setting us up for failure. Instead of chasing far-fetched export dreams, we should focus on using green hydrogen locally to fuel industrial growth, writes Nick Hedley.

Health experts have been sounding the alarm about the potential pandemic threat posed by bird flu, which has been showing signs of mutating as it spreads among cows and infects people in the United States.

Fine particle air pollution killed nearly 240 000 people in the European Union in 2022, a five percent fall on the previous year, the European Environment Agency said in a report published Tuesday.