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These powerful tropical storms are generally becoming more intense as the world warms.
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‘You’re in government with ANC’: Backlash as DA unveils controversial ‘BEE’ billboard
Speaking at the billboard launch, Helen Zille argued that poor black people were actually better off in DA-governed areas.
Jamaica declares disaster as ‘Monstrous Melissa’ ravages island
Prime minister expects ‘loss of life’ after powerful hurricane damages homes, hospitals and inundates parishes.
Fears of mass atrocities after Sudan’s el-Fasher falls to paramilitaries
Paramilitaries seize el-Fasher amid reports of mass killings and fears Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is deepening.
What does future hold after Celtic turn to the past?
BBC Scotland’s Scott Mullen examines the Celtic Park landscape after Brendan Rodgers’ exit.
Polls open in Tanzania’s election as key opponents barred
President Samia Suluhu Hassan is expected to win the election as the two main opposition parties have been barred.
OPINIONISTA: Francesca Albanese’s brave work on Palestine teaches us to resist making the visible, invisible
Albanese’s work is so important at this critical period, given the danger that an unchecked Israel will still be provided with Western-made arms, under cover of a hollow ceasefire, to continue its campaign of genocide.
England slide to defeat as batting woes continue
England collapse again as they slide to a five-wicket defeat by New Zealand, who seal victory in the one-day international series with a match to spare.
BOOK REVIEW: Fading Footprints — ancient South African culture found hiding in plain sight
There are few books that quietly rearrange the way one sees a landscape. Fading Footprints is one of them.
Dutch vote in knife-edge snap elections seen as litmus test for far right
Polls suggest anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party on course to win largest number of seats.
DEMOCRACY DIVERTED: Crackdown on popular dissent in Tanzania as sham election goes ahead
Tanzania’s election is a coronation, not a poll, amid brutal crackdown with troops in the streets, detained citizens and opposition leader Tundu Lissu on death row.
Trump says he expects ‘great deal’ with China at summit with Xi
US and Chinese leaders are expected to sign a trade deal in their first meeting since 2019.
‘I was seen as a dinosaur but not many managers moan about set-pieces now’
In his first BBC Sport column, Tony Pulis looks at the rise in set-piece goals this season and explains why he always thought they were important and how focusing on them is nothing new.
The 79-year-old boxer whose moves have made him an unlikely TikTok star
Frank Gilfeather hung up his gloves more than half a century ago but is now an unlikely boxing superstar.
Sir David Attenborough backs plan to buy estate
Wildlife trusts are attempting to raise £30m to keep the Rothbury Estate from being split up.
Tanzania elections: Who’s standing and what’s at stake?
Opposition members accuse President Samia Suluhu Hassan of cracking down on dissent to stay in power.
Migrant sex offender deported from UK, government says
The migrant arrived in Ethiopia on Wednesday morning after having left the UK on a flight Tuesday night.
Angry Spaniards still demand answers a year after Valencia’s deadly floods
The devastating weather phenomenon left more than 230 dead – in the worst floods Spain had seen for decades.
Three sacred Nkuna artefacts return to SA after 100 years in Swiss museum
The sacred artefacts originally belonged to the Nkuna chiefdom’s Shilubana royal family.
Why is New Delhi making it rain artificially?
Delhi is using ‘cloud seeding’ in a bid to dispel pollution – but can it work?
News24 | Trump’s Gaza truce ‘is going to hold’ despite Israel attack which killed 50
US President Donald Trump said “nothing” would jeopardise the ceasefire in Gaza, after Israel carried out air strikes on the Palestinian territory accusing Hamas of violating the truce, which the militant group denied.