Only a return to first principles can repair South Africa’s amoral foreign policy
Read More Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is due to visit South Africa for the Brics summit in August, which will take place just months after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for his alleged role in war crimes committed by Russian soldiers and mercenaries in Ukraine. This has kicked off a fierce […]
SA Canegrowers calls for action amid milling crisis
Read More Cut up: Many sugar farmers in KwaZulu-Natal are in trouble after the mill at Tongaat Hulett, which is in business rescue, failed to pay them for their produce. (Delwyn Veasamy/M&G) Citing a crisis in the milling sector, SA Canegrowers has called for stakeholders to commit to finding a path forward on the sugar […]
Home Office admits errors after arrest of Nepali guards airlifted from Kabul
Read More The Home Office has admitted it made errors in the handling of the cases of some Nepali guards who risked their lives to protect British embassy staff in Afghanistan and were airlifted to safety in the UK after the Taliban took control of Kabul. Ten of the guards who were living and working […]
Piers Morgan knew of phone hacking when at the Mirror, high court hears
Read More Piers Morgan knew about illegal phone hacking when he was editor of the Daily Mirror, it has been alleged at the high court. The first day of the phone-hacking trial initiated by Prince Harry and other well-known figures heard claims that illegal activity, including voicemail interception, was “carried out on an industrial scale” […]
E Jean Carroll ‘overwhelmed with joy’ for women in US after Trump verdict
Read More E Jean Carroll said she was “overwhelmed with joy for the women in this country” after a jury found Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York department store in 1996. “I’m overwhelmed, overwhelmed with joy and happiness and delight for the women in this country,” the writer and former Elle magazine […]
Risk of cyber-attack is main Eurovision worry, says BBC executive
Read More The risk of a cyber-attack by pro-Russian hackers is the “main worry” for broadcasters staging the Eurovision song contest on behalf of war-torn Ukraine, a BBC executive has said. Experts from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre have been drafted in to help thwart any attempts to sabotage the competition’s public vote on […]
Archbishop of Canterbury’s attack on illegal migration bill ‘wrong on both counts’, says minister – UK politics live
Read More From 3h ago Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, has said that Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, was “wrong on both counts” in what he said about the illegal immigration bill in his speech in the Lords. (See 12pm and 1.18pm.) Welby made many critcisms of the bill, but Jenrick was referring to […]
House GOP leaders react to Santos indictment: ‘There is a legal process’
House Republican leaders reacted to the federal indictment of Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., on Wednesday, declining to call for his resignation while his case proceeds through court. “In regard to George Santos, he was already removed from all of his committees,” House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., said during Wednesday’s leadership press conference. “There […]
‘Anyone other than Joe Biden’: Voters in deep blue state consider president’s primary challenger
Americans in Boston didn’t have hope that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has a chance in defeating Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential primary elections. “I think he’s nutty,” said Vinny from Boston. “I don’t think that ultimately he has the experience that it takes.” But Frank from Connecticut said he thinks Kennedy has a shot. […]
Allred campaign ad uses Uvalde prayer vigil footage to attack Cruz
FIRST ON FOX: Texas Democrat Rep. Colin Allred is taking heat from Republicans for “stooping to outright lies” over his Senate campaign announcement attacking GOP Sen. Ted Cruz. Fox News Digital has learned that Allred’s Senate campaign announcement last week used footage of the senator at a Uvalde school shooting prayer vigil to claim that […]