This researcher found billions in ‘invisible’ gold in Jo’burg’s mine dumps
At 26 years old, Steve Chingwaru uncovered 420 tonnes of gold in buried mining waste….
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India Lok Sabha election 2024 Phase 5: Who votes and what’s at stake?
Voters to decide the fate of 695 candidates, including opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, in the…
Oleksandr Usyk beats Tyson Fury to become undisputed heavyweight champion
Ukraine’s Usyk beat UK’s Fury by a split decision to become the first unifying title…
UN says 800,000 people have fled Rafah as Israel kills dozens in Gaza
Israel says it recovered remains of one captive while Hamas claims several attacks against Israeli…
Can the world’s top court stop Israel’s offensive in Rafah?
Israel refutes South Africa’s accusation that its Gaza military campaign is a genocidal act against…
Israel’s Gantz demands Gaza post-war plan, threathens to quit gov’t
Netanyahu rival lays out six-point strategy, including forming an international coalition to help govern Gaza…
Russian court seizes two European banks’ assets amid Western sanctions
Freezing hundreds of billions of dollars in lenders’ assets was part of dispute over gas…
Georgia’s president vetoes controversial ‘foreign agents’ bill
President Salome Zourabichvili says the law is ‘Russian in its essence’, but parliament is expected…
At least 23 people missing off Tunisia coast, authorities say
Search and rescue operations under way while five suspects have been arrested, Tunisian National Guard…
Three Afghans, three Spanish tourists killed in Bamyan shooting
Group of tourists and their companions was fired on while walking through a market in…
Vietnam nominates public security minister to be new president
To Lam has been public security chief since 2016 and has taken a hard line…
Violent protests rage in New Caledonia amid growing civil unrest
France’s Pacific Islands territory has been rocked by riots for nearly a week over planned…
Sri Lanka’s killing fields cast a long shadow
Impunity for crimes committed during the civil war has fuelled post-war repression in Sri Lanka.
Slovak PM Fico in ‘serious condition’ as shooting suspect appears in court
Court near Bratislava is considering prosecutor’s request for pre-trial detention of accused in assassination attempt.
Are seed-sowing drones the answer to global deforestation?
Drones are being used to replant degraded areas of forest in Brazil – how successful…
Israel’s PR battle is getting harder
Eight months into the war on Gaza, disunity and disarray is making Israel’s PR and…
Death toll rises to six in New Caledonia riots as unrest spreads
Hundreds of heavily armed marines and police patrol the French territory’s capital Noumea after a…
At least 50 killed in heavy rains, floods in Afghanistan’s Ghor province
Officials in the central region expect the number of casualties to increase as rising waters…
Lebanon’s economic crisis endures, as does the EU’s ‘fear’ of refugees
Analysts question whether EU grants to Lebanon have anything to do with getting its economy…
Zelenskyy warns Russia’s Kharkiv offensive may only be ‘first wave’
President says Ukraine has a quarter of air defences needed to hold front as Russia…
