News24 | Iran top diplomat to visit Saudi, Qatar before Trump tour
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Saturday, his ministry said, days before US President Donald Trump begins a regional tour.
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News24 | Trump administration sanctions China oil firm over Iran oil imports
US President Donald Trump’s administration imposed sanctions on a third Chinese independent, or “teapot” oil refinery and port terminal operators in China for purchases of Iranian oil ahead of an expected fourth round of US-Iran nuclear talks.
News24 | Hungary spy network found working for Russia in Ukraine, say spooks
Ukraine’s SBU security agency said it had uncovered a spy network being run by the Hungarian state to obtain intelligence about Ukraine’s defences.
News24 | Rwanda repatriates citizens trafficked to Asia
Ten Rwandans who were lured to Southeast Asia for work only to find themselves in dire conditions have been repatriated. The government stepped in after Rwandans trapped in Myanmar and Laos alerted a top influencer.
News24 | ‘Wow, I just can’t believe it’: Chicago home town shock at Pope Leo XIV’s election
The archbishop of Philadelphia, the US city where the first American pope Leo XIV spent his student days, told AFP after the pontiff was elected that he “honestly didn’t think it would be him”.
News24 | Two Israel soldiers killed amid ‘fierce fighting’ with Hamas in Gaza
Two Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat in southern Gaza Strip, the army said in a statement on Friday.
News24 | Japan subway attacker who stabbed man ‘with the intent to kill’ arrested
Tokyo police said they had charged a man with attempted murder after an alleged knife attack on the subway that reportedly injured two people during rush hour the previous day.
Pope Francis: The end of a radical papacy born in the south
Francis refused the version of Catholicism that ingratiates itself with the powerful while abandoning the poor
These are some of the executive orders Donald Trump signed on inauguration day
The withdrawal from the World Health Organisation will take one year to come into effect
Trump 2.0 sparks optimism in Africa and Asia, doubt in Europe and the rest of the West
The majority of poll respondents in South Africa, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and other countries believe China will outpace the US in global influence over the next 20 years
Los Angeles Palisades Fire threatens Getty Museum, death toll rises to 24
Teams from the sheriff’s department continue sifting through rubble, using dogs to search for human remains
Survey finds that wealthy influence, racial inequality and education drive economic divide
60% of respondents across 36 countries believe the political influence of the wealthy significantly contributes to economic inequality
Meta ends fact-checking to ‘reduce censorship’
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s fact checkers had been ‘too politically biased’
Trump says Musk, Ramaswamy will lead ‘Department of Government Efficiency’
The move is part of what the president-elect has said is a ‘Save America’ initiative
Ramaphosa welcomes Trump’s return to presidency, eyes closer SA-US collaboration
Trump has been congratulated by various world leaders, with the Taliban government saying it hoped for a fresh start in relations between Afghanistan and the US
Trump declares election victory, says United States is entering ‘golden age’
The former president said America could now start to ‘heal’
Harris, Trump locked in tight US presidential race as swing state results pending
Bitcoin surged to over $75,000 as early returns appeared favourable for Trump on Tuesday night
Joe Rogan endorses Donald Trump hours before US voting begins
On the eve of the election, Trump and Harris delivered closing arguments in a heated final push across battleground states
Former Trump official and sex abstinence advocate strikes secretive health deal in Uganda
Key documents relating to Valerie Huber’s Protego project are being kept away from the public eye
ANALYSIS | Putin silent on Ukraine at Brics summit as Ramaphosa, Modi advocate for peace
Hosting the first summit of the expanded bloc allowed Putin to project influence in a shifting global order despite Western isolation
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