Top advisers to then-President Donald Trump told him that his claims of widespread election fraud were unfounded and would not reverse his 2020 election loss, but he refused to listen, according to testimony on Monday at a hearing of the committee in...

Two European Parliament committees vote on Tuesday on an attempt to stop the EU labelling gas and nuclear energy as climate-friendly investments, and the outcome may indicate whether the full parliament will support or reject the rules next month.

Parents shut down Sediba sa Thuto Primary School two weeks ago, saying their cries for more mobile classrooms and rebuilding of the school have fallen on deaf ears.

Britain's first scheduled flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda was due to depart on Tuesday, with the government warning that anyone who avoided it through last-minute legal challenges would be put on a later flight anyway.

Russian forces cut off all routes for evacuating citizens from the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk by destroying the last bridge linking it to a Ukrainian held city on the other side of the river, a Ukrainian official said.

About 200 people who are in the cattle and game breeding business are expected to attend the auction at President Cyril Ramaphosa's farm.

Sitting on an anthill in northeast Uganda, local clan leader Justine Tooyero watched wistfully over the few shea trees visible in the distance, standing isolated amid many stumps.

Two suspects who allegedly kidnapped two Egyptian nationals and demanded ransom have been remanded.

Senzo Meyiwa was killed at his then girlfriend Kelly Khumalo’s home in Vosloorus on the East Rand in an alleged robbery that shocked the nation.

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As 10-metre high mounds of sunflower meal smoulder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine's top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambling to survive a harvest under Russian fire.

Heavily pregnant Sonari toils under the burning sun in fields dotted with bright yellow melons in Jacobabad, which last month became the hottest city on Earth.

Protesting truckers have blocked off part of the N3 between Warden and Villiers in the Free State.

The risk of a hospitalised person dying from Covid-19 in the Eastern Cape was almost double (1.9 times) the risk of someone dying of the disease in the Western Cape.

The department of water and sanitation has cut off supply from the Kouga Dam because dam levels are now too low to supply water to surrounding areas.

Mopping-up operations are continuing across the metro.

A four-year-old boy, Tebatso Thabang Makhata, from Burgersdorp village in Limpopo died after being electrocuted by an open live wire on Sunday evening.

Defence advocate Malesela Teffo has questioned whether the Pretoria high court has jurisdiction to hear the trial of five men accused of killing Bafana Bafana star Senzo Meyiwa, arguing it does not.

Prof Salim Abdool Karim says infection waves need to be reported to the public to raise awareness of the increased risk.

Ukraine updates.

The search and rescue operation for a six-year-old boy who fell into a manhole in Soweto on Sunday  afternoon was called off on Monday evening and will resume at 8am on Tuesday.

Khopotso Danny Mokholobotho, who admitted to killing his girlfriend in Vosloorus in Ekurhuleni last year, was on Monday sentenced to an effective 20 years in jail.

The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) wants the troubled Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Johannesburg, which is a regional hospital, reclassified as a tertiary hospital.

The Nigel magistrate’s court on Monday granted bail of R5,000 to a 37-year-old woman from Dunnottar near Springs who is accused of killing her 16-year-old son by giving him poison.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Monday said 536 new Covid-19 cases had been identified in SA in the past 24 hours.

The theft trial of former head of the specialised commercial crimes unit in the North West Jeanette Neveling, 53, started in the Molopo magistrate’s court on Monday.

Gerhardus Jansen van Vuuren was on Monday convicted of murdering his girlfriend by stabbing her 14 times in 2011 before fleeing to Brazil.

Next to Ukraine's stand at the world's largest arms fair for ground forces on Monday, US manufacturer Lockheed Martin proudly displays its anti-tank Javelin missile like a big brother protecting its younger sibling.

A senior police officer and seven businesspeople arrested at the weekend in connection with four irregular contracts in the national police commissioner’s corporate services office were released on bail of R3,000 each on Monday.

Cape Town’s disaster risk management centre was on high alert on Monday as a cold front brought heavy rainfall across the city.