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Canada’s Carney and China’s Xi Jinping take step towards mending ties
Relations nosedived in 2018 after Canada arrested a senior Huawei executive and have remained rocky ever since.
FRIDAY, 31 OCTOBER 2025, 19:52

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Relations nosedived in 2018 after Canada arrested a senior Huawei executive and have remained rocky ever since.

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D66 party says no time to waste as begins challenge of finding three coalition partners on fractious centre-ground.

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Proposition 50 has become a referendum on what steps Democrats are willing to take to counter President Donald Trump.

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Immigrants housed in the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, have described overcrowding and unsanitary holding rooms.

South Africa
The Johannesburg High Court has given the parties more time to find common ground.

South Africa
The suspect appeared before the Johannesburg Magistrates Court.

South Africa
People are calling on the South African and Mozambican governments to tackle attacks on locals

South Africa
The traders say they are finding it hard to make out a living.

World
Finding it hard to reach a resolution of its trade dispute with the US after Trump suspended talks, Canada turns to other major economies.
World
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States has announced that it disrupted an alleged “terrorist attack” in the northern state of Michigan.

World
Black and Caribbean cosplayers are redefining what community looks like at New York Comic Con.

World
Five people sustained minor injuries but nobody was seriously hurt in the incident in Meteren.

Africa
Pretoria rubbishes claims of a white genocide and quotes prominent Afrikaners who dub Trump’s plans racist.

Africa
Some deaths have been reported though accurate figures are hard to obtain due to the internet shutdown.

Africa
The court sets aside the 1967 inquest that found that the anti-apartheid hero was hit by a goods train.

Africa
Tensions remain with protests expected to continue, after demonstrations were reported in some towns overnight.

Business
ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels will not be available to YouTube TV subscribers.

Business
The government is facing questions over whether One Login can be trusted to keep people’s personal data secure.

Business
South Africa’s motor manufacturers failed to reach a wage agreement with the industry’s labour union, the Nation Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, it said in a statement late on Thursday.

Business
Restorative justice scheme for subpostmasters will offer face-to-face meetings with Fujitsu and Post Office executives.

Politics
Operations have resumed at the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in Mahikeng in the N West.

Politics
Ramaphosa slammed for celebration of SA’s removal from Financial Action Task Force greylist.
Politics
The Pietermaritzburg High Court has scotched the Umngeni-Uthukela Water board’s decision to suspend its chief governance and compliance officer, Sibusiso Madonsela, ordering that he be reinstated immediately.

Politics
Adams spoke with SABC News outside the Cape Town Central Police Station.

Sport
Michelle Agyemang has the strength to reach her potential despite rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), say her managers at Arsenal and Brighton.

Sport
Manager Oliver Glasner says it would be “irresponsible” for Crystal Palace to play two games in three days following a fixture pile-up after reaching the EFL Cup quarter-finals.

Sport
Martin O’Neill’s Old Firm debut win became known as the ‘Demolition Derby’, but Celtic’s interim manager would “settle for a really lousy 1-0 victory” over Rangers this time.

Sport
Kaizer Chiefs co-coaches Cedric Kaze and Ben Khalil Youssef have made one change for the clash against Durban City in the Betway Premiership.
Education
New programs cannot turn out the numbers needed to make up for the controller shortfall. But they hope to have a higher success rate than the Federal Aviation Agency’s official academy.
Education
[New Republic] Tubman University has once again positioned itself as a hub for youth empowerment and leadership with the hosting of the Tubman University Youth Summit-an inspiring event that brings together young people from diverse backgrounds to share ideas and develop solutions for Liberia’s future.
Education
[Capital FM] Nairobi — Pottermore Publishing and Worldreader’s BookSmart platform have partnered to promote literacy in Kenya through a nationwide digital reading initiative targeting families and children.
Education
[Capital FM] Nairobi — The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has revealed that lawyers and accountants lead in student loan defaults, even as the agency pushes for new legal powers to freeze bank accounts of beneficiaries who have refused to repay their loans.
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Switzerland voluntarily returned three sacred South African artefacts to the Nkuna royal family, a significant act of cultural restitution.
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Science/Tech
A top United States regulator plans to unveil a faster approach to approving custom gene-editing treatments, a move designed to unleash a wave of industry investment that will yield cures for patients with rare diseases. From a report: Vinay Prasad, who oversees gene therapies at the Food and Drug Administration, said scientific advances, like Crispr, have forced the agency to relax some of its...

Science/Tech
The popular sunrise alarm clock company stirs up controversy with its horror-themed Halloween ads and programming.
Science/Tech
Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.
Science/Tech
Google Maps is testing a power saving mode in its latest Android beta release that strips the navigation interface to its bare essentials. The feature transforms the screen into a monochrome display and removes nearly all UI elements during navigation, according to AndroidAuthority. Users discovered code strings in version 25.44.03.824313610 indicating the mode activates through the phone’s...

Motoring
‘Loot in the Boot’ will see one entrant walk way with R1-million.

Motoring
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class, or better known simply as G-Wagen or G-Wagon, has been in production since 1979 and, in that…
Motoring

Motoring
Twin of the Peugeot Landtrek slots in below the range-extending Hunter REEV.

Health
Cambridge University Hospitals says it “should not have happened” and changes are being made.
Health
She had to fight for recognition after a male colleague took credit for her work in identifying an extra chromosome as the cause of that genetic condition.
Health
A large-scale randomized trial of texting therapy concluded that its outcomes were as good as video sessions in treating depression.

Health
UK Health Security Agency urges people to get vaccinated with cases on the rise.
Nature
Eskom and the City of Johannesburg are still in discussions about how the metro will resolve its outstanding debt, says CEO Dan Marokane.
Nature
A peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Nature, found that the carbon emissions stemming from 111 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers resulted in at least $28 trillion in economic losses in the three decades to 2020, writes Nick Hedley.
Nature
The challenging global context has not deterred our commitment to the Just Energy Transition Partnership, writes the International Partners group.
Nature
Three organisations have partnered to showcase and display a block made from recovered glass and building rubble waste.