Police in Durban were battling a fresh wave of anti-migrant unrest. Shops were looted, homes were torched and foreign nationals were targeted as crowds took to the streets for a second day. The violence has revived fears of rising xenophobic…
Tests have come back negative for a person suspected of having Ebola who was reportedly in quarantine at a hospital, following rumours circulating over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, in Nairobi, authorities are racing to trace contacts of Kenya’s first…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday postponed legislative elections due next month until September 11, 2027, and called a presidential poll for the same date, blaming Israel and the security situation in the Palestinian territories for the delay. Our correspondent…
Most of the political world is focused on next month’s midterm elections in the US. “It does look like the Republicans will lose control of the House of Representatives,” says our guest, Bruce Stokes, a visiting senior fellow at the…
French prodigy Paul Seixas claimed his first Monument win at the Giro di Lombardia on Saturday. The victory makes the 20-year-old the fourth-youngest winner of a Monument race.
Early Saturday, Russia targeted residential neighbourhoods in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia with “five guided aerial bombs”, according to Ukraine’s National Police. At least 15 people were killed, including three children, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. The family of a…
Police detained more than 2,000 protesters and the founder of the “cockroach” youth movement in Delhi on Saturday as security forces locked down parts of the capital to thwart a rally demanding the resignation of India’s election chief. Our correspondent…
October 10 marks the World Day Against the Death Penalty. This week, the EU condemned capital punishment as a cruel and degrading form of punishment. But not all world leaders share this view. We discuss why executions are on the…
Fifteen people, including three children, were killed in a Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, a day after US President Donald Trump announced a deal to lift sanctions on Russian diesel, in a major setback…
Indian police detained the head of the satirical “cockroach” online movement on Saturday as hundreds of protesters demanding the election commissioner’s resignation gathered in New Delhi despite a heavy security crackdown.