More than a million extra vaccine doses could have been administered between May and June if vaccination sites had been open at weekends, according to the latest Nids-Cram report.

Former president Jacob Zuma is in isolation at Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal.

Global efforts to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic are under threat because women are being excluded from critical decision-making roles, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Zambia's founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, was laid to rest at the country's presidential burial site on Wednesday after the High Court dismissed a challenge by one of his sons that this would be against his wishes.

Suspected Islamist militants killed 18 people when they attacked a village in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, two local officials said.

A federal judge found the US government was 60% responsible for a 2017 mass shooting in which a former Air Force airman used firearms he should not have been allowed to purchase to kill 26 people at a rural Texas church.

Tropical Storm Elsa was weakening as it passed over northern Florida on Wednesday afternoon, the US National Hurricane Center said, apparently sparing the state from some of the serious harm authorities had braced for.

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The Biden administration will not immediately lift any international travel restrictions, even as it faces growing pressure from US business groups and lawmakers, a White House official said.

Tunisia has proposed the UN Security Council push for a binding agreement between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt on the operation of a giant hydropower dam within six months, according to a draft resolution.

Haiti's security forces were locked in a fierce gun battle on Wednesday with assailants who assassinated President Jovenel Moise at his home overnight, plunging the already impoverished, violence-wracked nation deeper into chaos.

Russian police said on Wednesday they had detained a health worker in the Kaliningrad region for allegedly selling fake coronavirus vaccination certificates.

The French government will talk to Russian authorities in coming days about the labelling of champagne in Russia as sparkling wine, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in the Senate on Wednesday.

The Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, resumed its journey and left the Suez Canal on Wednesday, 106 days after becoming wedged across a southern section of the waterway for nearly a week and disrupting global trade.

South Florida officials on Wednesday called off the search for survivors of a June condominium tower collapse, saying there was no longer any hope of pulling someone alive from the ruins of the flattened building.

"I lost my balance and fell to the ground, where the cheetah continued to bite and claw my arms and legs until the facility manager succeeded in getting the cheetah away from me, said Amandine Lequime," a volunteer from Belgium.

In 2006, Andrew Merryweather was spear-tackled during a fight with a group of private school pupils at a Cape Town petrol station.

“Basically, reducing impact speed in a crash significantly reduces passengers’ chances of being killed or injured,” said Prof Fred Wegman.

"If you make laws that you have no intention to enforce, you create a mental muscle of ignoring the laws, people get used to the law being a suggestion," the former public protector said.

An employee who presents with Covid-19 related symptoms must be excluded from the workplace and is entitled to paid sick leave.

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An Eastern Cape chief has been suspended for 10 years, without pay, for forcing a couple of have sex in full view of the public.

The NICD said there were 411 Covid-19 related deaths recorded in the past 24 hours - the second straight day the death toll has exceeded 400.

AfriForum has urged the environment department's Green Scorpions to investigate an abattoir in the Northern Cape town of Kuruman for allegedly pumping animal blood into a nearby nature reserve.

Embattled restaurants in Joburg may have to shut their doors if the government extends the booze ban, property group TPN said.

Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was filing class action lawsuits against Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc, and Alphabet Inc's Google, alleging they silence conservative viewpoints.

Police ministry spokesperson Lirandzu Themba said minister Bheki Cele would not be in Nkandla on Wednesday, the deadline by which police were meant to arrest former president Jacob Zuma if he had not handed himself over.