Gregorius Hide, a 70-year-old farmer in the eastern Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara, said the only warning he had of an approaching swirl of muddy water that engulfed his district this week was a smell of wet earth shortly before it hit.

Norwegian police said on Friday they have fined Prime Minister Erna Solberg for breaking Covid-19 social distancing rules when organising a family gathering to celebrate her birthday.

Speaking on SAfm on Friday, SA Health Products Regulatory Authority CEO Dr Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela said they were reviewing the Sputnik and Sinovac vaccines.

The man who opened a fraud case that led to the arrest of gospel musician Dr Tumi says he did not know that the singer was involved in the matter.

Iran released on Friday a South Korean ship and its captain detained since January after South Korea promised to try to secure the release of Iranian funds frozen in South Korean banks under US sanctions, a South Korean official said.

More than 3,600 cases of deaths as a result of alleged police action were reported between 2011 and 2020 in SA.

There is a need for significant private sector involvement - banks and pension funds - in funding the loan scheme.

The industry is yet to accept the R1.14bn Covid-19 relief fund the government has offered, rejecting the conditions attached to it and aimed at formalising the sector.

More than 154,100 outage reports on Facebook, 80,200 on Instagram and 1,300 on WhatsApp were reported on outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Free State police have arrested two more suspects in connection with the brutal murders of five family members in that province over the Easter weekend.

Russia has more troops on Ukraine's eastern border than at any time since 2014, when it annexed Crimea and backed separatist territory seizures, and the US is concerned by growing "Russian aggressions", the White House said on Thursday.

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The US State Department on Thursday played down expectations for talks on how Washington and Tehran might resume compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and said the US envoy was likely to return home as the talks break for the weekend.

Zhano Samuels, a 20-year-old South African sneaker and clothing customiser, joined the customising business just two years ago.

Self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri has thanked his followers for their support after the death of his daughter Israella in March.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has no hope of rescuing SA from the state capture swamp unless he tidies up the scrapyard of his own political home, writes Piet Croucamp in the latest issue of 'Vrye Weekblad'.

The Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency has had to close its nature reserves throughout the province following the strike, led by Nehawu.

Health minister Zweli Mkhize updated the nation on the vaccine rollout in a media briefing on Thursday. Mkhize said he is confident that South Africa will achieve Covid-19 herd immunity 'within a year'.

SA recorded 1,366 new Covid-19 cases and 62 deaths in the past 24 hours, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Thursday.

President Emmanuel Macron will announce on Thursday the closure of France's Ecole Nationale d'Administration, an elite finishing school that has produced many of the country's presidents, ambassadors and business leaders, French media reported.

Congolese police detained scores of protesters and fired live rounds on Thursday to disperse crowds demanding the departure of the United Nations peacekeeping mission from the city of Beni, local authorities and witnesses said.

A critical care doctor called as a prosecution witness in Derek Chauvin's murder trial testified on Thursday that George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen caused by being handcuffed face down in the street with the former Minneapolis police officer's ...

Civil rights group Muslim Advocates sued Facebook Inc and its top executives on Thursday, alleging they misled the US Congress and others by falsely claiming the company removes content that violates its policies.

KwaZulu-Natal church leaders gathered in the Durban CBD on Thursday to lead a silent protest in unity with all foreign nationals affected by xenophobic attacks in the province.

Sadc has directed an immediate “fact-finding mission” to assess and investigate further the situation on the ground in Mozambique after attacks by insurgents

A Kenyan judge ruled on Thursday against the closure of two refugee camps hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees mainly from neighbouring Somalia, according to a copy of the court order seen by Reuters.

Reinsurers are set to foot most of the bill for the grounding of the ship that halted traffic in the Suez Canal, industry sources said, with payouts expected to run into hundreds of millions of dollars.

A senior Polish judge put a transgender child in danger by tweeting about her and a complaint will likely be filed with prosecutors, an opposition politician said on Thursday regarding the incident which has outraged liberal Poles.

The African Union's disease control body said on Thursday it has dropped plans to secure AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines for its members from the Serum Institute of India, the world's biggest vaccine supplier, amid global shortfalls of the shot.

While there are no winners, there are ways for motorists to reduce their fuel consumption.