Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow's worsening ties with Kyiv, his interpreter said on Thursday.

Thousands of Chinese women have called a new domestic violence helpline app within days of its launch, its founder said.

Angola's main opposition party said on Thursday it filed a case with the constitutional court to seek the annulment of last week's election in which the ruling MPLA was declared the winner.

Specialised Gauteng detectives have hunted the alleged killers of 16 revellers massacred in a Soweto tavern to Lesotho, where they narrowly missed arresting them in a failed clandestine operation at the Maseru border post.

Health minister Joe Phaahla says the health department is considering charging neighbouring countries for immigrants who access health services in SA.

A senior KwaZulu-Natal traffic officer, who was fired for sexually harrassing a woman motorist he stopped during a routine vehicle check, has failed in his bid to be reinstated.

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Three court challenges have been lodged against an agency of the department of human settlements including a R2m defamation suit against it and a senior manager for allegedly spreading rumours that a female employee slept her way to promotion.

Drug-resistant TB remains a public health threat in SA with a just over 50% cure rate for the MDR and 27% for XDR

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Lawyers for Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes made a long-shot attempt to get her fraud conviction thrown out by telling the judge who oversaw her trial a version of events that highlighted her company’s accomplishments.

Police arrested five men following a robbery at a supermarket in Piet Retief in Mpumalanga on Thursday afternoon.

Tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu said the country’s tourism sector was poised for a revival after the country recorded an impressive increase in arrivals to the country in the first six months of the year.

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The newly-opened Musina ring road will help facilitate greater trade and economic activity between SA and Zimbabwe, as well other countries in the Southern African Development Community.

Police disrupted an illegal mining operation in Benoni, Ekurhuleni, and arrested more than 30 suspected illegal miners on Thursday.

The owner of an emergency service company, his wife and his accountant appeared in the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court on Thursday to face charges of fraud, contravention of the Tax Administration Act and failure to submit company income tax.

Test scores released on Thursday showed that American 9-year-olds' reading and mathematics achievement levels had dropped to levels last seen two decades ago, revealing the damage the Covid-19 pandemic has wrought on education in the United States.

Eskom CEO André de Ruyter says corruption is still rampant at the power utility, with syndicates operating within power stations.

US President Joe Biden is expected to ramp up attacks on politicians aligned with Donald Trump in a prime-time speech in Philadelphia on Thursday, and ask Americans to push back against extremism at the ballot box.

The Eastern Cape health department has decided to remain mum to the public regarding the toxicology results of the Enyobeni tavern tragedy in anticipation of “legal processes that might follow”.

The European Union's drug regulator on Thursday backed two separate Covid-19 vaccine boosters updated to target the Omicron variant and developed by Moderna and the team of Pfizer and BioNTech.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours granted to Boris Yeltsin.

A serial rapist from Mpumalanga will most likely spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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As the Zimbabwe dollar continues to lose value amid high inflation, businesses are abandoning the currency and insisting on doing business in US dollars.

The release of the final toxicology results regarding the death of 21 youngsters at the Enyobeni tavern in Scenery Park got off to a rocky start on Thursday morning with families disagreeing with authorities.