World
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African states’ private debts three times that owed to China
African countries’ debts with China are a third of what they owe non-Chinese private lenders, while interest rates are just over half, according to a report published on Monday amid a debate about th…
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Johannesburg shooting: Fifteen killed after gunmen open fire in Soweto bar
An eyewitness has described the horror of seeing 15 people shot dead at a bar in Johannesburg’s Soweto township. Police are investigating reports a group of men arrived at the Orlando East tavern in …
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U.S. to send $400 million in weapons to Ukraine, including more HIMARS
U.S. President Joe Biden signed a new weapons package worth up to $400 million for Ukraine on Friday, including four additional high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) and more ammunition. Th…
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Former UK finance minister Sunak bids to replace PM Johnson
British former finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime minister down…
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Sri Lanka protesters, angered by economic meltdown, storm president’s house
Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo stormed the president’s official residence and his secretariat on Saturday amid months of mounting public anger over the country’s wo…
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Japanese mourn ex-PM Shinzo Abe a day after his assassination
A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination in the western city of Nara, an unusual act of political violence that has shock…
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Angola’s former president dos Santos dies aged 79
Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa’s second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, died on Friday, the presidency said. The 79-year-old died at the Teknon clin…
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Biden to sign executive order on abortion, contraception access
U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Friday to help safeguard women’s access to abortion and contraception after the Supreme Court last month overturned the Roe v Wade decision th…
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Japan ex-PM Abe confirmed dead after being shot during election campaign
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, died on Friday hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country in which political violence…
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Russia says sanctions over Ukraine a declaration of economic war by the West
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday said attempts to isolate Moscow with sanctions was akin to a declaration of economic war by the West, dismissing what he said was “frenzied” criticism…