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Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala, a central figure in a major ongoing police graft inquiry in South Africa, has pleaded guilty to corruption, fraud and money-laundering charges as part of a deal with state prosecutors. He was accused of bribing top…
New York prosecutors have chosen not to pursue a rape charge against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein for a fourth time. The case had already been tried three times, once resulting in an overturned conviction and twice in hung…
Apple is increasing the price of MacBooks and iPads worldwide due to rising memory and storage chip costs. The iPhone maker has hiked the prices of some laptops and tablets by almost 20%, saying the electronics industry is facing an…
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can strip protected status from hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants which has allowed them to stay in the US for years. The 6-3 ruling overturned earlier…
The White House has asked lawmakers to approve $87.6bn (£66.5bn), mostly for “urgent needs” connected with the US war on Iran, a day after Congress passed a resolution rebuking the military action. The bulk of the funding – $67bn – is for…
Ferrari’s marketing boss has quit after 16 years at the company just weeks after a backlash over the launch of the supercar maker’s first-ever electric car, the Luce. The firm announced this week that Enrico Galliera would leave the role…
One of Australia’s biggest TV presenters, Karl Stefanovic, will reportedly leave his job amid backlash over his podcast project after an interview with British far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Stefanovic became a household name as the…
US artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused Chinese e-commerce and technology firm Alibaba of “brazenly” and “illicitly” extracting its Claude AI model’s capabilities. In a letter sent to two members of the US Congress, the…
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk lost his trillionaire status on Tuesday, less than two weeks after becoming the first person to achieve it following SpaceX’s public debut, according to data from Bloomberg. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index –…
Aliah, a 20-year-old student in Minnesota, expected her new American life to be all about studying and work after fleeing Afghanistan in 2021 and being granted asylum in the US. But earlier this year, when federal immigration enforcement…
Two powerful earthquakes shook the Venezuelan capital of Caracas seconds apart, with the second quake – a magnitude 7.5 – one of the strongest tremors to hit the South American country in a century. Buildings collapsed and residents rushed…
Tens of thousands of homes in western France are without power, with temperatures set to peak across the country on Wednesday during a record-breaking heatwave. About 68,000 homes in Brittany have been affected, with electricity unlikely…
Police in Pakistan have arrested a man who allegedly held his wife and children captive at home and abused them for more than a decade. His wife, a French national named Sylvie Yasmina, claims the man assaulted his family physically and…
France has confirmed its first case of Ebola – a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The doctor was “immediately admitted to a specialised facility” and is in a stable condition, the…
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has the largest number of confirmed cases within the first month of any episode of the disease, a senior World Health Organization official told a briefing on Tuesday, blaming the surge on its quick spread to urban…
The U.S. has provided doses of an experimental antibody drug from Mapp Biopharmaceutical for use in clinical trials to fight the widening Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo, a Health Department spokesperson said. The…
South African police said Tuesday they were investigating the killing of a foreign national in the southeastern town of Pietermaritzburg, where hundreds of Malawians flocked for repatriation due to fears of xenophobic attacks. South…
Eight people who US prosecutors say have ties to Antifa have collectively been sentenced to 450 years in prison for their roles in a riot outside an immigration detention centre in Texas. A former US Marine Corps reservist, who was…
US congressman Dan Goldman has been defeated by an ally of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a major victory for the democratic socialist leader of America’s largest city as he seeks to tilt the Democratic Party to the left. Brad Lander…
The Republican-controlled US Senate approved a measure instructing President Donald Trump to halt the war in Iran or seek congressional approval before continuing military action. A handful of Republicans joined Democrats in Tuesday’s…
Oracle shed about 21,000 roles globally in the last year as the US technology giant reshapes its business around artificial intelligence (AI), the firm’s latest annual report shows. The software and cloud computing firm says it had around…
United States president Donald Trump will attend the World Cup final and help present the trophy, says Fifa president Gianni Infantino. Trump, 80, is yet to attend a game at the World Cup, but may still make an appearance before the final…
Andrew and Tristan Tate are seeking to challenge a decision by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to withhold from them the identities of individuals who have made criminal complaints against the brothers in the UK. At a hearing at the…
Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Muhoozi Kainerugaba now says he was responsible for the deportation of Kenya’s Senior Counsel and Peoples Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua from the country on Monday. Muhoozi, who is also…
