Some 10 miles inside Russia at a military base near the village of Golovchino, dozens of damaged, burnt and blasted Russian armoured vehicles have been dragged into scattergun positions as workers attempt to repair and salvage spares.

Arena Holdings' Moshoeshoe Monare will join the SABC as group executive for news and current affairs from June 1.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned of lightning-fast retaliation if countries interfere in Ukraine, while US President Joe Biden was set to comment on Thursday in support of Ukraine's fight against “Russia's brutal war”.

Visiting Asia next month for the first time since becoming US president in 2021, Joe Biden will hold talks with allies in Japan and South Korea over China's growing influence in the region and the latest threats from nuclear-armed North Korea.

Transport minister Fikile Mbalula will on Thursday release the 2022 Easter weekend road statistics and provide an update on the extension of driver's licence applications.

The trial of the suspects accused of the murder of former Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa, will resume in the high court in Pretoria on Thursday.

The African Christian Democratic Party and others v The Minister of the National Department of Health Dr M Phaahla and others.

Former radio journalist and author Barry Bateman, who came to national prominence during the Oscar Pistorius trial, is joining up with ex-prosecutor Gerrie Nel.

Nepal is putting a 21st-century spin on a tourism sector dominated by activities unchanged for generations as it looks to boost a vital part of an economy decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic and soaring import bills.

The 130 City of Joburg employees whose contracts were terminated are taking the municipality to the labour court again. This time they are seeking permanent relief.

"Elon Musk must buy SA. I want to see something," joked one social media user.

The 29-year-old SA teacher was found dead in her Shanghai apartment in China.

Police are already in the area conducting an operation at the Chicken Farm informal settlement near Pimville.

A 38-year-old suspect linked to the Boko Haram gang in Mamelodi, Pretoria, has been arrested in connection with three business robbery cases.

Sixty-two people have been admitted to hospital with Covid-19 complications in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

For Covid-19 patients with milder forms of the disease who are still at a high risk of hospitalisation, the World Health Organization "strongly recommends" Pfizer's antiviral pill Paxlovid.

Four people, including a gardener and domestic worker, have been arrested for the murder of an elderly man, reported missing over the Easter weekend in Cresta, Johannesburg.

A 77-year-old suspect who allegedly shot at a couple fishing along the Mogul river next to a plot in Rietspruit in Limpopo has alleged he was shooting at a hippo.

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A Ballito mother has been arrested for allegedly drowning her four-year-old daughter in a bucket of water, claiming she was troublesome and difficult.

The scourge of gender-based violence and femicide in SA leaves no room to celebrate Freedom Day for women and girls in the country, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

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The United Nations World Tourism Organisation said on Wednesday that Russia had decided to quit the international agency just as its member states were preparing to vote on Russia's suspension over its invasion of Ukraine.

Parliament has filed papers at the constitutional court requesting an extension of the deadline for the finalisation of the amendment of the Electoral Act.

Russian forces were on Wednesday pounding a huge steel works in Mariupol where the southern Ukrainian city's last defenders and some civilians are holed up, a local official said.

The French military left a remote base in northern Mali before dawn last week for the last time, one hundred vehicles forming a miles-long convoy across the barren desert terrain.

A second Ebola patient has died in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, days into a fresh outbreak of the deadly disease.

For many women and girls, freedom remains elusive because of persisting violence.

Kenya’s former president Mwai Kibaki, who died last week, was widely praised for his economic transformation of Kenya, first as finance minister from 1969 to 1982 and then as the third president of Kenya from 2002 to 2013.