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The model that first debuted in SA in the 1980s is now sold in over 70 countries worldwide...

Most held over arson, blocking roads and trying to prevent people from going to work, says police minister Bheki Cele...

Global markets cheered the latest efforts by governments in the US and Europe to ease a crisis threatening the global banking sector...

The success or failure of the protests has huge implications for both the EFF and ANC, and President Cyril Ramaphosa is watching closely, as one demand is his removal from office...

Zuma was in court for his private prosecution of senior advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan...

EFF leader Julius Malema addresses supporters at Church Square...

Apart from sporadic incidents, the province has been quiet, with challenges in transporting EFF supporters to Durban appearing to be the main reason for the lack of protests...

Patrick Nyamunungi, a sociologist working with the China Railway 18 group told URN in an interview that people are using the drainage channel as a waste dumping site because they closed down the many manholes they were previously using to dump their garba...

Brian Matsiko, the ICT Officer in charge of the Uganda Driver Licensing System at the Ministry explained that the mobile center will only operate for a short while as the ministry organizes to set up a permanent center in Lira....

Two schools were linked seamlessly thanks to video conferencing technology enabled through a partnership between the United Nations Children's agency-UNICEF, the Ministry of Education and Sports, and Airtel Uganda....

Police said that by 10pm on Monday night, at least 550 protestors had been arrested and 24 300 tyres were confiscated...

It is an abuse process designed to lay the ground for the next, counsel for the arms deal corruption prosecutor told the Pietermaritzburg high court...

It was caused by the failings of the government, which has a responsibility to spare hospitals, schools and police stations to protect people's rights...

Twenty years on from the US-led invasion, can the Iraqi authorities step up and assume more responsibility?...

The body of Martinez Zogo, a critic of private and public transgressions, was found five days after he disappeared, showing signs of torture...

A helping hand, not a silver bullet: The AI chatbot can help navigate bureaucracy and amplify local voices....

MPs must find a way to handle Andr de Ruyter's allegations and a protected disclosure accusing Pravin Gordhan of wrongdoing in the SAA sale...

Three men have been arrested in Daveyton in connection with a vigilante attack in Gauteng earlier this month, in which a theft suspect was severely assaulted....

The EFF has labelled the SA National Defence Force's deployment ahead of its shutdown as a bid by President Cyril Ramaphosa to 'crush the calls for his resignation'....

It's all systems go for the EFF's planned national shutdown on Monday, with South Africans on both sides of the fence as to whether President Cyril Ramaphosa should resign....

Film tells how two investigative journalists exposed sexual predator Harvey Weinstein and started a movement...

Disaster management authorities in Malawi, which has been hit the hardest by the cyclone, reported on Saturday that the death toll there had risen to 438....

Bruce Willis celebrated his 68th birthday on Sunday with his whole family....

King Charles gave a special shout-out to his mom and the UK's longest-reigning monarch on the first UK Mother's Day since her death last September....

With water scarce in some places, in excess elsewhere, polluted or otherwise problematic, the United Nations addresses this week a global crisis that has been long overlooked....

Coca cultivation hit a record high by soaring 35% from 2020 to 2021, a UN report shows amid new cocaine trafficking hubs emerging in southeastern Europe and Africa....

That's only the beginning, with one person estimating the final toll could be a multiple of that number...

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North Korean drills involved a missile launch from a buried silo, which analysts say would help improve speed and stability...

The team were hoping in vain that bringing the truth about the fake intelligence to the UN Security Council might prevent the 2003 war...

Julius Malema has touted the shutdown as the start of a 'revolution'...

The former deputy president has lashed out at the Democratic Alliance leader, who accused him of being involved in Eskom corruption...

In a unanimous decision written by Justice Irene Mulyagonja, the constitutional court said it cannot sanction the act of harassing people whether offline or online regardless of their status as private or public individuals....

It opens the way for corruption and worsens the governance problems that led to the power crisis, the mining rights debacle and the failure of ports and railways...

The tale inspired UN-Water, which coordinates the world body's work on water and sanitation, to launch the 'Be the change' campaign for World Water Day on 22 March, which urges everyone to do what they can to change the way they use and manage...

Two court applications relating to former president Jacob Zuma's private prosecution of prosecutor, advocate Billy Downer, and News24 legal journalist Karyn Maughan are expected to be heard in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg this week...

John Robert Adupa, the LC 3 Chairperson for Lotisan Sub County told URN that the maize was bought from Uganda by the Turkana county government and will benefit more than 50,000 people in Lotisan....

The global analysis which reviewed household access to WASH services, the burden of WASH-attributable deaths among children under five, and exposure to climate and environmental hazards reveal where children face the biggest threat and where investment in...

Various statistics from recent days and weeks underline Temba Bavuma's "graduation" to agreeably heavy scorer, writes Rob Houwing...

More community-based health services should also reduce the system's greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, writes Louis Reynolds....

Economic decline, austerity and higher living costs have sparked more frequent, sometimes violent, mass action worldwide — and South Africa should take note...

Survey shows many Zoom calls and project updates could disappear without any negative effect...

Government has no diplomatic appetite to take on Moscow as fallout risks are far too great...

Cases will be postponed or virtual, clogging up under-pressure court roll, during EFF-led anti-government protest...

Migration problem is not going to be fixed by policy solely designed to restrict movement of people...