Our team of China experts — including ABC Chinese's acting supervising producer Bang Xiao, China correspondent Bill Birtles, foreign affairs analyst Stan Grant, and the Australian National University's Yun Jiang — will be on deck to answer your questions ...
The foundation representing South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma, sentenced to jail for defying a top court, condemned the judgment as unconstitutional Wednesday, as loyalists travelled to their ex-leader's home ahead of a deadline to turn himself in by the ...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered condolences to the dozens of people who have died in a record-setting heatwave. "Our thoughts are with people who have lost loved ones" to the heat, he said, calling the recent weather a reminder of the ...
Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers fleeing war, persecution and oppression face being sent to an offshore immigration processing centre in Africa under plans being drawn up by the government. Priti Patel, the home secretary, will introduce provisions ...
Former president pens a statement denouncing Constitutional Court jail ruling and calls Zondo commission a 'slaughterhouse'. BL PREMIUM. 01 July 2021 - 00:37 Thando Maeko, Erin Bates and ...
Insurgency is a growing global threat to peace that affects human and state security as a result of its nature of catastrophe. The use of violence to an end by rogues behind insurgency affects global humanitarianism and economic activities, particularly in ...
With the European Union (EU) forming a EU Digital Covid Certificate framework to facilitate free movement from July 1, India has asked EU member-states to accept Covid-19 vaccines authorised by the World Health Organization (WHO) or national authorities ...
Richard Mahomva. Correspondent. The late Comrade Joshua Nkomo's legacy is prominently embedded in the military and radical polemic side of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle. This historiography bias towards Cde Nkomo's contribution to decolonisation ...
It seized power in 1949, and its early decades in government were tumultuous, with Mao Zedong launching radical purges and a disastrous industrial program that led to one of the deadliest famines in history. Mao's ...
The remains of four people were pulled from the rubble, said Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava (D). The grim news came as rescuers entered a seventh day of searching through the debris after the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Fla., last ...
Six days and millions of pounds of concrete later, rescuers say they are not giving up. The Bidens will visit the site of the Florida building collapse on Thursday.
In 2014, while in graduate school in Chicago, I underwent treatment for a serious illness. After spending an intense month in the hospital, I was finally transferred to outpatient treatment with weekly doctor appointments. One ...
(CNN) [Breaking news update, published at 6:50 p.m. ET]. Rescue crews found another victim of the South Florida condo collapse on Tuesday, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 12, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at an afternoon news ...
It was on March 25 that the Constitutional Court heard the urgent contempt of court application brought by the Zondo Commission of inquiry against former president Jacob Zuma. The Helen Suzman Foundation joined the application as amicus curiae (friend of ...
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced the funding to fight the growing threat of terrorism in West Africa at a meeting of the Global Coalition against Daesh in Rome. The funds, according to ...
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) - The 83-member D-ISIS (Defeat ISIS) Coalition, meeting in Rome on Monday, reaffirmed its commitment to continuing the fight against the terrorist organization. That stands in marked contrast to Afghanistan, where the US is ...
Violent crime is surging in Chicago because too many criminals are being set free by the court system, the head of the city's police department said Monday. Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown said during a press conference Monday ...
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan held a virtual meeting with Zimbabwe Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Dr Frederick Shava and discussed a diverse range of bilateral, regional and ...
NAIROBI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Large-scale adoption of emerging agricultural technologies and innovations could be the cure to endemic challenges facing African small-holder farmers including diseases, pests and climatic stresses, scientists said on Monday.
NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with reporter Michael Fox about COVID-19 in Brazil. Earlier this month the country's death toll surpassed half a million, becoming the second highest in the world. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: In many parts of the United ...
The Africa CDC, the specialised healthcare agency of the African Union, said around 1.12 percent of Africa's population have received a full vaccine regimen. Some 48.6 million of the total 61.4 million Covid-19 vaccine ...
A country's cyber capabilities have been assessed in seven categories: strategy and doctrine; governance, command and control; core cyber-intelligence capability; cyber empowerment and dependence; cyber security and resilience; global leadership in ...
The gathering of the Global Coalition Against Daesh on Monday is the first to take place in person since November 2019 and will be co-hosted by Italian foreign minister Luigi Di Maio and US secretary of state Anthony Blinken.
Beni (DR Congo) (AFP). The mayor of the eastern DR Congo city of Beni declared a curfew on Sunday after three weekend bomb attacks. Beni is in the North Kivu province, which President Felix Tshisekedi placed, along with neighbouring Ituri province, ...
MOGADISHU, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Somali National Army (SNA) said Sunday that 41 al-Shabab militants were killed and several others injured in a suicide car bomb attack at a town in Galmudug, a regional state in central Somalia. Moreover, the SNA ...
AN international coalition must work together to “ensure there are no safe havens” for the so-called Islamic State, Dominic Raab will say as he warns against the growing threat of terrorism in Africa. The Foreign Secretary is set to join more than 45 of his ...
There were approximately 28,500 fewer people in the workforce in May 2021 than before the pandemic, and employers are doing all they can to entice workers to fill open positions as the tourism season continues. Maine's cumulative ...
If anybody thought the problematic issue of National Question with its ancillary notions of restructuring, devolution of power, fiscal federalism etc, is dead and buried under the crushing weight of federal government disapproval, such a person had better perish ...
The five-hour heavy rainfall, obstructed the flow of vehicular traffic on the Weija Barrier – West Hills Mall stretch of the Kasoa Highway, Haatso stretch, UPSA and Shiashie among other areas.
On Wednesday, the Borno state government the UN hosted a high-level delegation of key partners to highlight humanitarian and development priorities in north-east Nigeria. Delegates from Canada, the European Union, France ...
The judgment was in a suit was filed last year by cable television operator, Metro Digital Limited, against MultiChoice Nigeria. Joined as co-respondents were the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and the Minister of Information.
Australia's largest city Sydney entered a two-week lockdown Saturday to contain a sudden coronavirus surge and Russia's Saint Petersburg announced a record death toll, as several European nations lifted restrictions despite the spread of the highly ...
The damage is believed to have resulted from years of exposure to salty sea air along the coast of South Florida. Architect Frank Morabitwa at the time urged the building's management to make urgent repairs. The apartment building collapsed at night from ...