Nearly 200 countries gathering for the UN climate conference in Egypt are expected to lock horns over whether rich nations should pay compensation to vulnerable states hit by climate-fuelled disasters.

A passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday while attempting to land in stormy weather at an airport in the lakeside city of Bukoba, the state broadcaster said.

The bodies of three children who drowned in a river at Port St Johns have been recovered, Eastern Cape police said on Sunday.

Sri Lankan cricket authorities said on Sunday that Danushka Gunathilaka, a member of their team for the T20 World Cup tournament in Australia, had been arrested in Sydney over an alleged sexual assault.

The community of Mabopane outside Pretoria have carried out a citizen arrest and nabbed one of three men implicated in a house robbery and fatal shooting of a local police officer.

The United States is privately encouraging Ukraine to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia, the Washington Post reported, as the State Department said Moscow was escalating the war and did not seriously wish to engage in peace talks.

China on Sunday reported its highest number of new Covid-19 infections in six months, a day after health officials said they were sticking with strict coronavirus curbs, likely disappointing recent investor hopes for an easing.

Thousands of people took to the streets across Peru on Saturday to demand the resignation of embattled President Pedro Castillo, a leftist whose government is under investigation for corruption.

A total of 53 matric pupils in North West could not write the economics paper 1 on Tuesday because of community protests.

Economic sanctions, the primary means the US has used for years to try to exert pressure on North Korea, have abjectly failed to halt its nuclear and missile programmes or to bring the reclusive northeast Asian state back to the negotiating table.

More than 100 environmental activists wearing white suits stormed into an area where private jets are kept at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Saturday and stopped several aircraft from departing by sitting in front of their wheels.

Iran acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that it had supplied Moscow with drones but said they were sent before the war in Ukraine, where Russia has used drones to target power stations and civilian infrastructure.

Twitter is already facing a proposed class action claiming the layoffs are imminent and will violate US and California laws if employees are not given advance notice or severance pay.

Actress Terry Pheto says she is "dismayed" to discover she is the subject of a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe into allegations of fraud relating to National Lotteries Commission (NLC) funding and denies any involvement.

Detectives from the provincial organised crime unit in KwaZulu-Natal are appealing to Clermont residents to come forward with information that could assist them in arresting those behind the killings of six people in the area.

Earthquake.com reported that the province suffered a 4.6 magnitude quake.

Spanish police said on Saturday they had seized 32 tonnes of packaged marijuana with a street value of at least €64 million  ($63.74 million), which they said was the largest amount ever found in Spain or internationally.

France's far-right Rassemblement National (RN) elected Jordan Bardella as its new president on Saturday, overwhelmingly backing the 27-year-old European Parliament member to succeed Marine Le Pen in the post.

At least 13 people died after a fire broke out in a busy nightclub in the Russian city of Kostroma, officials said on Saturday.

British police said evidence showed that an attack in Dover on October 30, when petrol bombs were thrown at an immigration centre, was motivated by a terrorist ideology, specifically "an extreme right wing" ideology.

Five people have been arrested in Maitland, Cape Town, for possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, as well as a stolen car.

Sweden's new government will distance itself from the Kurdish YPG militia as it tries to win Turkey's approval to join Nato, Sweden's foreign minister told Swedish Radio on Saturday.

A Gqeberha man bust for possession of stained bank notes stolen from ATMs and explosives has been jailed for five years.

Parliament's portfolio committee on health says it is unhappy with the state of Dora Nginza Hospital in the Eastern Cape.

As delegates head off to COP27, kicking off in Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday, the health community has thrown down the gauntlet.

Muzi Nyathi, 41, a PR councillor in the Mkhondo municipality in Gert Sibande, was shot in Mkondo at about 6.30pm on Friday.

China and Saudi Arabia have assured $13 billion in funding to Pakistan as the cash-strapped nation grapples with the aftermath of catastrophic floods, Dawn newspaper reported.

The movement was seen on the only land connection between the two countries on Friday afternoon, the report said, adding North Korea closed the link in February 2020 as it shut its borders due to the pandemic.

Mining conglomerate, Anglo American Platinum donated four ultra-light aircraft to the South African National Parks (SANParks) to aid in surveillance, conservation, and anti-poaching efforts in the Kruger National Park.

Thousands of flights were disrupted and passengers stranded as pilots at Kenya Airways, one of Africa's biggest carriers, began a strike on Saturday, despite the government urging them to call it off.