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Africa has recorded the world's fastest improvements in disaster resilience, a new major global study has revealed. Research from Lloyd's Register Foundation...

A narrow Constitutional Court ruling on asylum applications was distorted online into false claims about citizenship, grants, jobs and voting, fuelling anti-foreigner mobilisation in Durban.…

Just weeks before a potentially pivotal election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defending against new allegations that he ignored high-level warnings from Arab allies that might have pr...

The foreign minister's Nazi reference insults a rights advocate who condemned Hamas and Israel's actions in Gaza. His response reflects Israel's denial

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After the Trump administration announced sweeping sanctions against the International Criminal Court, Canadian legal professionals are calling on the federal government to take action to strengthen th...

Hours after South Africa’s Navi Pillay, a former judge of the International Criminal Court, was named as this year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the US slapped sanctions on the court.…

Pillay is recognised for her "efforts to promote peace and international law", the Norwegian Nobel Committee says.

Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause.…

At the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin, the political tension between Canada and the U.S. is — more or less — set aside as farmers from both sides of the border focus on their best bovines. But even so,...

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A former SAPS profiler says the cases should be treated as a serial, while police have not confirmed whether the nine deaths are linked.

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A river that is home to about 500 saltwater crocodiles is given the OK to host Olympic and Paralympic rowing and canoeing events at the 2032 Brisbane Games.

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St Barts is one of many UK institutions whose benefactors were involved in the trafficking of enslaved Africans

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USS Abraham Lincoln’s crew disembark in Pattaya after more than eight months at sea

John Malkovich canceled a 2027 performance of “The Music Critic” in Tel Aviv, Israel after an unauthorized press release falsely attributed quotes to the act...

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Laura Berlin watched images of immigration agents rounding up people and flying them to a Latin American prison without due process – and she knew she had to...

Ziva Sharp said her Jewish faith motivated her to travel from Jerusalem to the West Bankto stand up for Palestinians – a commitment that led to her being set...

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Prof Gustaf Hugelius warns wildfires could accelerate release of methane and carbon as vast regions approach irreversible thresholds

New species and regional instability are factors – but decisions made in the US and Britain are also costing lives, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

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The stark figures show that since the hardliners seized power in 2021, women have been erased from public life, poverty is forcing hopeless families to marry off their daughters and healthcare is on t...

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European football governing body UEFA voted on Thursday to boycott future men's and women's World Cups in response to FIFA's plan to allow private investment...

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The Israeli government has told CBC News that it requested permission for wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to overfly Newfoundland and Nova Scotia on Monday en route to a meeting with ...

Villagers in Zimbabwe have discovered that vuvuzelas can ward off lions, significantly reducing livestock losses and demonstrating local ingenuity in wildlife conservation.…