Britain will make a decision on June 14 about whether or not to go ahead with the final phase of its easing of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, health minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday.

US President Joe Biden spoke with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the White House said on Saturday, as the Israel-Hamas conflict continued to rage and destroyed a tower block that housed news media ...

Australia is sticking to plans to start re-opening to the rest of the world only from the middle of next year, officials said on Sunday, resisting mounting pressure to end the closure of international borders.

Zimbabwe's justice minister accused the country's judiciary of being "captured" by foreign forces seeking to destabilise the government after the High Court ruled it was illegal to extend the tenure of the chief justice by five more years.

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has started dredging work to extend a second lane that allows for two-way traffic in a southern section of the canal near to where a giant container ship got stuck for six days in March, it said on Saturday.

Ethiopia has postponed parliamentary elections due on June 5, the country's electoral body said on Saturday, adding it did not foresee a delay of more than three weeks.

US President Joe Biden on Friday revoked a 2019 proclamation by former President Donald Trump that sought to bar the entry of immigrants who could not prove they had health insurance or could cover healthcare costs.

Bodies of Covid-19 victims have been found dumped in some Indian rivers, a state government said in a letter seen by Reuters, the first official acknowledgement of an alarming practice it said may stem from poverty and fear of the disease in villages...

Israel destroyed a 12-storey tower block in Gaza housing the offices of the US-based Associated Press and other news media on Saturday, saying the building was also used by the Islamist militant group Hamas.

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The final Covid-19 jab as part of the Sisonke trial has been administered.

The Zimbabwe High Court has ruled that Chief Justice Luke Malaba ceased to hold office as of midnight on May 15.

Acclaimed SA music composer and academic Bongani Ndodana-Breen has been appointed a fellow at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music.

Two people died when their helicopter plummeted into the dam on Friday evening.

Emotions ran high outside the family home of Yolandi Botes, whose body parts were found in the Vaal River last week.

Two gang members have been arrested after being found in possession of drugs in a Cape Town court's holding cells.

Ivory Coast Prime Minister Patrick Achi said he was in "good shape" after returning home to Abidjan on Friday, following reported medical treatment in France.

Ethiopia has revoked the press credentials of a foreign journalist working for the New York Times, according to the newspaper and an Ethiopian official.

Singapore announced on Friday the strictest curbs on social gatherings and public activities since easing a Covid-19 lockdown last year, amid a rise in locally acquired infections and with new coronavirus clusters forming in recent weeks.

The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said in a statement that the 66-year-old man drowned after being swept away by currents at Grotto East at the lagoon mouth, near Hermanus, on Friday.

A North West man who robbed a bakery truck and murdered one of the bakery's employees has been slapped with a 25-year prison sentence.

IPSS Medical Rescue said the man was about to reel in his catch when a wave knocked him off the rocks and swept him into the sea.

The Hawks have arrested a suspect for possession of ivory in Cape Town.

Australia carried out its first repatriation flight from India after temporarily banning all travel from the Covid-19-ravaged country last month, the government said, with 80 passengers arriving in Darwin on Saturday from New Delhi.

Capacity challenges within the Northern Cape's public healthcare system may be "a high risk factor" in the rollout of Phase two of the Covid-19 vaccination programme," parliament's portfolio committee on health said on Saturday.

In interview with PlayStation Studios head and Guerrilla Games co-founder Hermen Hulst said that there are over 25 PS5 games in development, half of which are completely new intellectual properties.

A country mission of the International Monetary Fund said on Friday that Ghana has managed its Covid-19 outbreak very effectively and its economy is rebounding with the support of strong policies.

Critics said the proposed monthly levy on Johannesburg residents using prepaid electricity, which has now been withdrawn, would have punished already overburdened households and businesses.

Israeli planes renewed air strikes in Gaza early on Saturday and Hamas militants responded by firing rockets into Israel as their battle entered a fifth night and US and Arab diplomats sought an end to the violence.

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