FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2025, 18:24
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday said the latest vessel in the Caribbean bombed by the United States may have been Colombian with Colombian citizens aboard, which the White House called a “baseless” statement.
Some 500 National Guard troops were deployed near Chicago on Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s orders despite the objections of the Chicago mayor and Illinois governor, who decried the militarization of their city as an unnecessary provocation.
Voters in Seychelles will return to the polls on Thursday for a run-off election between the sitting president and the leader of the Indian Ocean archipelago’s longtime governing party, which has already reclaimed a majority in parliament.
Satellite images show the house where the BBC’s Vitaly Shevchenko grew up could now be a Russian base.
Sarina Wiegman names her England squad next week – has she been left with no choice but to start Maya Le Tissier?
The extent to which leaving the Convention would make a difference to immigration has been greatly exaggerated, argues Lord Sumption
Dimon said he was “far more worried than others” about the potential for a stock market correction.
Sanaa el-Azab is one of 58 people who have been evacuated from Gaza to study at universities in the UK on scholarships.
The saltire has long been embraced by supporters of Scottish independence – but now it is being unfurled for a different cause.
There is indeed a new vibe at the Joburg Indaba this year, one driven in part by gold’s record run and rebound in PGM prices. This vibe has rippled into the JSE and the rand’s performance.
Financial fraud is rife the world over — at least that’s what the world’s top legal experts told Daily Maverick at the Frontiers of Asset Recovery Conference 2025.
The positive weather outlook and robust tractor sales provide sufficient comfort for us to maintain an optimistic view about the season ahead.
As human needs grow, the demand for water will simply outstrip supply. This will probably happen in the lifetime of most of my readers, and certainly in their children’s lifetime, depending on where they live.
Vital interviews to fill two vacancies at the Constitutional Court have resulted in the shortlisting of five candidates.
KwaZulu-Natal police boss Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has told Parliament that ‘captured’ journalists who push agendas to the detriment of others should be jailed. And MPs who ‘negligently’ deal with leaked intelligence information should also spend time behind bars.
As our politics becomes more fractured, two key institutions, the NPA and SARS, are likely to come under a lot more pressure. Procedures have begun to appoint successors to the people currently running them. The challenges facing these institutions and their new leaders will be immense.
This latest stint means the minister has now assumed the acting presidency for the fifth confirmed time since 2019.
Once again painting himself as a martyr, Gary van Niekerk claimed to be the tip of the spear against corruption in Nelson Mandela Bay while suggesting that other politicians, including former mayor Retief Odendaal, were crooked.