POLITICS

Papal souvenirs have become hot-selling items in the city ahead of the Argentinian pope's four-day trip to the deeply religious central African country, which begins on January 31.

The party expressed worry that in addition to having to spend a third of 2022 without electricity and cope with the continued Stage 6 load shedding South Africans will now have to pay more for electricity.

The Jacob Zuma Foundation called it 'surprising' to learn about the president's application to the High Court to have the matter heard urgently.

Research has shown restoring so-called "keystone" species -- those with an outsized impact on their environment -- is vital for the health of ecosystems, and can come with unexpected benefits for humans.

The resurgence of infections, nearly three years after the pandemic emerged in the central city of Wuhan, casts doubt on investor hopes for China to ease its rigid zero-COVID policy soon, despite recent more targeted measures.

Giuseppe Janino, one of the creators of Brazil's electronic voting system, said the complaint appeared focused on machine logs that have no bearing on the voting results.

The cancellation came after an American fossil company raised doubts about parts of the skeleton named "Shen", The New York Times reported on Sunday.

Wray, speaking in a hearing on domestic threats by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, did not provide any detail on the armed drone cases.

It took fire fighters more than an hour to get control of the massive flames that burst through the top floor of a four-story residential building in the densely-populated Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip.

Tanks and two fighter jets targeted rebel positions in the town of Kibumba at noon, according to a resident who spoke to AFP via telephone from the region's main city Goma.

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Thursday on Twitter that he is "convinced that the time for 'Patriots' has come," after asking for F-15 and F-16 warplanes earlier in the week.

In recent weeks, fighters have been edging closer towards Goma, an important commercial hub of one million people on the border with Rwanda.

President Xi Jinping, conspicuously absent from the main stage of diplomacy during China's COVID isolation, has been mostly smiles and handshakes on his return this week with a flurry of meetings that Beijing hopes will begin to mend frayed relations.

The motorbike attacks occurred as protests over the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini intensified on the third anniversary of bloody crackdown on unrest over fuel price hikes.

South Africa's relations with several Western nations, including the UK, have been strained by its refusal to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The charter bus carrying 28 migrants arrived in the city early on Wednesday morning as part of an effort by the Republican Texas governor to draw attention to security at the U.S.-Mexico border.

More than a month after a crackdown on anti-junta protestors that left scores dead and spurred an international outcry, dissidents in Chad remain in shock and disarray.

Tesla shareholder Richard Tornetta sued Musk and the board in 2018 and hopes to prove that Musk used his dominance over the electric vehicle maker's board to dictate terms of the package, which did not require him to work at Tesla full-time.

Ramaphosa thanked China for its efforts in helping Africa not only with the COVID-19 pandemic but also their ongoing struggles with debt relief.

Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's 37-year-old de facto ruler, left Monday for the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.

Bidali became an outspoken activist for migrant workers after being held for four weeks and then expelled from the Gulf state in 2021.

The US State Department also said it was for the first time offering a reward of up to $10 million for information "leading to the disruption of the financial mechanisms" of the Al-Qaeda affiliate.

The ship docked at a military port in Toulon with migrants, including dozens of children, saved from the Mediterranean in October.

Polls show Imamoglu would be a strong challenger to Erdogan if he were to run in next year's national elections. A main opposition presidential candidate has not yet been chosen.

Starting from January next year, Kenyans who wish to travel to South Africa will be able to do so without a visa for up to 90 days per calendar year.

"You're looking at well over 100,000 Russian soldiers killed and wounded," top US General Mark Milley said. "Same thing probably on the Ukrainian side."

Last month reports emerged that the Biden administration was weighing a national security review of Musk's $44 billion takeover of Twitter, in part because of a key group of investors backing the buyout.

Pyongyang has long condemned joint military exercises by Seoul and Washington, calling them rehearsals for an invasion -- but it has appeared especially sensitive to air force drills.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday they face a stark choice: work together now to cut emissions or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe.