WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) – A US judge said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump cannot construct his planned $400m ballroom on the site of the White House’s demolished East Wing without approval from Congress, halting for now one of the Republican president’s most visible efforts to reshape the seat of American power.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 31 (Reuters) – Armed men mounted further attacks in Haiti’s breadbasket Artibonite region on Tuesday, days after a gang’s weekend assault in the area of Jean-Denis left some 70 people dead, according to human rights groups and local residents.

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM/CAIRO, April 1 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said the United States could end its military attacks on Iran within two to three weeks and Tehran did not have to make a deal as a prerequisite for the conflict to wind down.

At just 24 years old, Makida Kumalo left South Africa for the UAE’s Airbnb industry, but she carried with her the spirit of Ubuntu, opening her doors to stranded fellow South Africans during the Dubai bombings.

When the world’s salt brands were pouring chemicals into white powder and calling it seasoning, Samantha Skyring was sitting on a sand dune in north-west Namibia with a crocodile spear made from a bread knife lashed to a stick.

Fitness coach Leroy Maluka is on a mission to give underprivileged children from Cape Town’s Cape Flats the opportunity to watch Bafana Bafana live at Cape Town Stadium.

Six-year-old Tlotlo Tsheka, a Grade 2 pupil at SPARK Witpoortjie, is turning imagination into impact, publishing three books and launching a literacy mission to inspire other children to read, write, and dream bigger.

The Special Investigating Unit smells something rotten in Red Roses as the net closes on Robert Gumede’s involvement in alleged Covid-19 tender scandal.

It’s Good News Day on News24 and we have 10 brilliant stories to give you this April Feels Day. From a local success story of a SA mom who created the Oryx salt brand, to a soccer coach who raised money to take 50 Cape Flats kids to see Bafana Bafana for the first time, these 10 stories will give you the April Feels, all free to read.

The Khampepe Commission has heard how ANC leaders from exile brought a culture of suspicion and hierarchy to South Africa’s democratic governance, complicating the pursuit of justice.

Nelson Mandela Bay officials flew to Cape Town for a parliamentary meeting that had already been postponed, handing taxpayers an R88,000 bill for nothing – and the mayor thinks no apology is necessary.

Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Babalwa Lobishe has survived two no-confidence motions after councillors voted them down. The ANC’s Provincial Integrity Commission also cleared her over last year’s controversial R25m transformer lease to Coega Steels.

The South African agricultural industry welcomed the cut in the fuel levy, but there are calls for more action to protect the country’s food security.

A new court judgment clarifies that talaq cannot bypass civil divorce laws, ensuring Muslim women can access interim maintenance, as mandated by recent legal changes in South Africa’s Divorce Act.

In two weeks the war on Iran emitted more carbon than the combined emission in a year of a country like Iceland or more than a million cars. This is the environmental backstory that seldom gets told as jets roar off carriers and rockets carry death to the enemy.

Use of biodiversity does involve trade-offs. But complexity does not justify analytical shortcuts. Trade-offs do not justify false equivalence. And regulatory structure and adaptive management without transparent rules does not substitute for ecological evidence.