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In the previous article, we explained why the South African government is extending the use of banks to verify grant recipients in social grants administration and how this process…
The locals, armed with pamphlets and information about rights, are urging people to speak out against violence, harassment and division fuelled by groups like March and March.
A pile of unread books isn’t procrastination. Dopamine and the hippocampus let you savour imagined reading, so browsing and buying books lifts mood and motivation.
The collapse of Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s unilateral $4.2-billion plan to sell World Cup rights has prompted calls from Uefa, the Confederation of North, Central America…
The African Union’s decision not to intervene in Burundi’s 2016 crisis reveals a deeper pattern in continental politics: authority is often furthest from consequence, while…
At least 17 people were killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, a rescue group and a regional police official said, as…
The British band Massive Attack said its members were detained by Singapore police and “isolated and separately questioned” after the two performers raised a Palestinian flag at…
Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, a Myanmar government spokeswoman said,…
Indonesian rescuers are continuing the search for 28 people still missing on Monday after a ferry caught fire off Indonesia’s Madura island, an official said.
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SYDNEY, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Former Australian radio host Alan Jones arrived at a Sydney court on Monday as his high-profile trial opened on charges that he indecently assaulted and…
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/CAIRO, Aug 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said talks with Iran will happen on Monday but declined to set a deadline for an agreement after earlier…