Survivors of an attack by unknown assailants on a Catholic church in Nigeria lay weeping and writhing in pain at a local hospital on Monday after suffering what a doctor described as lacerations, bullet wounds and blast injuries.

The SA National Taxi Council has distanced itself from having any involvement in the planning of a national shutdown on Friday or lobbying for other unions to become involved.

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Mpumalanga police are seeking help from the public with an investigation into the murder of a 24-year-old woman and her daughter.

The application brought by advocate Malesela Teffo to have a trial within a trial in the murder case of Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was dismissed on Monday.

Nearly a quarter of a million people are facing starvation in Somalia as a drought worsens and global food prices hover near record highs, United Nations agencies said on Monday.

Several thousand migrants, many from Venezuela, set off from southern Mexico early Monday aiming to reach the United States, timing their journey to coincide with the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week.

A student teacher was shot in the head at a school in Newlands West in Durban on Tuesday.

Russia, hit by Western sanctions, has called on the BRICS group of emerging economies to coordinate measures to stabilise the economic situation, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Monday.

The European Parliament will vote this week on a raft of EU climate change policies designed to cut Europe's emissions over the next decade, with proposals facing multiple amendments and the outcome uncertain for some of the most ambitious plans.

The department of correctional services said it received confirmation from law enforcement authorities in the United Arab Emirates of the arrest of the Gupta brothers.

The seizure of luxury properties used by the Gupta family, accused of playing a key role in state capture, have thrust the controversial family firmly back under the spotlight. The family wielded significant political influence during the years that ...

The scene where Senzo Meyiwa was gunned down was cleaned up before police arrived and cordoned it off.

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Tuesday there would be a strong and clear response from the United States, South Korea and the world if North Korea were to conduct a nuclear test.

A former Capitec teller who allegedly colluded with bank clients to secure personal loans worth more than R230,000 based on fraudulent documents has appeared in court on charges of fraud, theft and contravention of the Prevention of Organised Crime A...

A Philadelphia school teacher, an Arizona teenager and a Chicago police officer were among hundreds of people struck down by bullets over the weekend, part of a relentless wave of shootings that has pushed gun violence to the forefront of US politics...

Ukrainian troops were engaged in fierce street fighting with Russian soldiers in the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, in what is a pivotal battle in the Kremlin's attempt to control the eastern Donbas region.

The DA and Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) have welcomed the arrest of two of the Gupta brothers who they labelled as "state capture kingpins".

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote on Monday but a large rebellion in his Conservative Party over the so-called "partygate" scandal dealt a blow to his authority and leaves him with a struggle to win back support.

“It is natural for viruses to change. The more the virus circulates, the more opportunities it has to change," said the WHO's Dr Maria Van Kerkhove.

Ukraine updates.

The state capture-accused Gupta brothers, Atul and Rajesh, have been arrested in Dubai.

Health minister Dr Joe Phaahla on Monday called for calm and vigilance after government detected four cases of measles in Gauteng.

The government of Lesotho has stepped in to assist about 180 citizens flee the Eastern Cape farming community of Hankey.

The Pretoria magistrate’s court on Monday granted R3,000 bail each to 23 accused in a fraud, theft and corruption case in connection with police service contracts for vehicle repairs.

The University of Cape Town has condemned the disruption of midyear exams and confirmed it has opened cases of trespassing and malicious damage to property.

The high court in Middelburg on Monday convicted Harry Johannes Knoesen, the self-professed leader of a terrorist group known as the National Christian Resistance Movement, also known as the "Crusaders", on five counts including high treason.

The application brought by advocate Malesela Teffo to have a trial within a trial in the murder case of Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa has been dismissed.

No-one will shut down any police station in KwaZulu-Natal on June 16, provincial commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said on Monday.

A family celebrating their son's 10th birthday on Sunday evening could have been shot if they had left a restaurant five seconds earlier.