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A US guided-missile destroyer that docked for four days in Trinidad and Tobago, within firing range of mainland Venezuela – which called its presence a “provocation” – departed as scheduled on Thursday, AFP witnessed.

Hamas’s armed wing said it would hand over the remains of two more hostages on Thursday as demanded under the US-brokered ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

A demolished church, roofs blown off homes, shattered windows and debris-strewn, impassable roads: Hurricane Melissa dealt a direct hit to Jamaica’s southwestern coastal communities that face a long haul picking up the pieces.

It is well known that Johannesburg receives most of its potable water from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project via the Vaal Dam, but there is another equally voluminous inter-basin water transfer scheme that feeds into the Vaal, called the Thukela-Vaal Transfer Scheme.

Floyd Brink was appointed as Johannesburg city manager for the second time on Thursday.

South Africa will rely heavily on private companies to build power generation as coal-fired plants that produce the bulk of its electricity are gradually retired, according to the IRP 2025.

Stella Artois owner Anheuser-Busch InBev has announced a bigger-than-expected share buyback programme, even as beer sales disappoint.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested at a high school in Diepkloof, Johannesburg, for the murder of two teenagers in Westbury last week.

Israel has banned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian prisoners detained under a law targeting “unlawful combatants”, the country’s defence minister said.

An accident between a minibus taxi and a truck on the N3 highway, between Van Reenen’s Pass and Montrose in KwaZulu-Natal, has left eight people dead.