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Prosecutors sought 17 years imprisonment for Teixeira’s ‘significant’ violations of the Espionage Act.

With the lockouts, $930m of goods are being affected daily, affecting supply chains and economy, the government says.

The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies has asked the Equality Court in Cape Town to declare Mehmet Veja Dag’s social media posts about about Jewish people hate speech.

Nearly three weeks after they were supposed to be paid, a number of SRD grant beneficiaries who had their applications approved in October are still waiting for their payments.

Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina wanted to assure South Africans that the country has enough water. However, she added a “but”.

Robbers have made off with an undisclosed amount of cash, after bombing a cash-in-transit vehicle in Rustenburg.

Mauritius opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam was confirmed as prime minister on Tuesday following a thumping election victory for his coalition that took every parliamentary seat on the main island.

Côte d’Ivoire is sub Sahara Africa’s biggest importer of wine, says the US department of agriculture, and it is time American companies take advantage of the market.

An overview of the biggest business developments in SA and beyond.

An application to suspend development of the solar farm has been rejected, but another seeking more permanent relief is yet to be decided on.

International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola threw diplomacy out the window on Tuesday and responded angrily when he was asked whether South Africa and the ANC were “protecting its friend” Frelimo in troubled Mozambique.

Ten years after her sexual assault, she discovered that the evidence in her rape kit hadn’t been tested — and neither had thousands of others nationwide.

Higher education has been a favorite target of Republicans who believe schools have tilted leftward. Now, colleges and universities are bracing for the Trump administration to take action.

[This Day] In line with the vision of the Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri to make Bayelsa a model for basic education reform and transformation, the Ministry of Education and Bayelsa State Universal Basic Education Board (Bayelsa SUBEB) have launched BayelsaPRIME@Home, an initiative designed to keep primary school children learning during the flood break.

[The Herald] The 2024 Zimsec Grade 7, Ordinary, and Advanced Level examinations have proceeded without any challenges, with officials crediting the leak-proof system.

A new update is rolling out that automatically starts Microsoft’s Edge browser and prompts users to import their Chrome tabs — a move that has sparked criticism over its invasive tactics to encourage Edge adoption. The Verge’s Tom Warren reports: My colleague Richard Lawler noticed that Edge started automatically on his PC last week at boot and offered up a new prompt to “enhance your browsing...

The genetic testing company 23andMe announced it will cut 40% of its workforce, or 200 jobs, and halt the work on therapies it was developing. As the BBC notes, the company is fighting for survival after hackers gained access to personal information of millions of its users, causing the stock to crater by more than 70%. All seven of its independent directors also resigned in September,...

When asked about whether President-elect Donald Trump would prevent a TikTok ban in the United States, a spokeswoman told The New York Times: “He will deliver.”

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Flock is one of the largest vendors of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) in the country. The company markets itself as having the goal to fully “eliminate crime” with the use of ALPRs and other connected surveillance cameras, a target experts say is impossible. […] Flock and automated license plate reader cameras owned by other companies...

The Justice Department and four Democratic state attorneys general argued that United’s takeover would limit competition and harm consumers needing home or hospice care.

Rates of gonorrhea declined in 2023, while diagnoses of syphilis and chlamydia held roughly steady, according to new C.D.C. data.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers on health, is taking aim at the agency’s oversight on many fronts.

The creation of a UN-backed global carbon market has taken a step closer to reality with governments approving new standards for the use of credits to meet climate targets.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders at the COP29 summit on Tuesday to “pay up” to prevent climate-led humanitarian disasters, and said time was running out to limit a destructive rise in global tempera

President Aliyev accuses West of hypocrisy for criticising country’s fossil-fuel dependence while buying its oil & gas.

This year’s UN climate summit – COP29 – is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures, adding pressure to negotiations aimed at curbing climate change.