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Former Bosasa chief operating officer Angelo Agrizzi has been ordered to pay the state R1.66 billion following a Gauteng High Court ruling under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act.
Singapore is dismantling most of its haze mitigation measures, including free N95 mask distribution, community shelters, and occupational safety precautions, as inter-monsoon showers and variable winds suppress transboundary smoke.
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, traveled to Moscow on Thursday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss regional security and deliver a personal letter from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
Six-year-old Elliot English has passed away at Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin from injuries sustained in an October 13 arson attack on his Waterford city home that previously claimed the lives of four other family members, RTÉ News reported.
The U.S. Department of Justice is facing a leadership vacuum following the resignation of three senior officials in the wake of midterm elections that saw the…
Australia has imposed targeted financial sanctions and travel bans on four prominent Sudanese figures and a military-aligned armed group, joining international measures against leadership factions driving the war-torn country’s civil conflict.
Illegal border crossings across the European Union fell by 32 percent between July 2025 and June 2026, while asylum applications dropped by 16 percent to 730,800, according to a report published on Friday by the European Commission, according to Euronews.
Ukrainian military intelligence announced on November 5, 2026, that targeted airstrikes have knocked 15 of Russia’s 38 major oil refineries out of operation, inflicting more than $23.2 billion in economic damage and cutting processing volumes by over half.
The reason we lost is the war, said Vice President JD Vance, highlighting how the United States military engagement with Iran weighed on the Republican Party’s political standing in Congress following the November 3, 2026 midterm elections.
Senior officials from the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) are meeting in Addis Ababa to finalize an implementation plan that targets peace, security, and economic development across both continents.
President Donald Trump met privately with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev at the White House on Thursday to discuss an agreement to end the war in Ukraine.
President Santiago Peña remains in office after Paraguay’s parliament failed to finalize his resignation due to a lack of quorum, even as the Chamber of Deputies unanimously moved to initiate impeachment proceedings.