CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian authorities have refused to let a cruise ship carrying roughly 2,000 mostly LGBTQ+ passengers dock at Alexandria, just days after Turkey blocked the same vessel from two of its ports. Passengers aboard Virgin Voyages’ ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. and Iranian leaders traded threats on Saturday as the interim deal to end the war buckled under crossfire in the Middle East and efforts continued to keep talks going. President Donald Trump overnight made threats...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa midfielder Jayden Adams, who played at the World Cup, has died. He was 25. His death was confirmed by Gayton McKenzie, South Africa’s minister of sport, arts and culture, in a statement on Saturday. “It is with profo...

New research presented by Injecta Analytics at the Real Estate Institute of Zimbabwe’s Winter School in Kigali makes a striking claim: roughly three in every four operating businesses in the country now sit outside the formal economy. That figu...

JOHANNESBURG – French media and entertainment group Canal+ has completed its US$3 billion (R55 billion) acquisition of MultiChoice Group, marking the end of a multi-year takeover process that brings Africa’s largest pay-television operator fu...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Mikel Merino is Spain’s World Cup hero once again, and even he finds it hard to believe. A mere four days after Merino scored a clutch goal as a substitute in injury time to beat Portugal, he found himself in the right spot ag...

LOS ANGELES – A U.S. federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a US$27 million defamation lawsuit filed against Zimbabwean comedian Learnmore Jonasi, bringing an end to a high-profile legal dispute stemming from one of his comedy routines. The law...

SOUTH AFRICA – A United Kingdom man of Zimbabwean heritage wanted in connection with the murder of his wife and two children has been arrested in South Africa. Mkhanyisi Tshuma was apprehended in Kensington, Johannesburg, during a joint operation i...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass.— Kylian Mbappé spread his arms out wide and spun around after scoring his eighth goal of this year’s World Cup. He later gave the jubilant France fans dotted around the stadium a wave when he left the game because of an injury ...

Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz have tightened global petrochemical feedstock supply and driven plastic prices to record highs, jumping nearly 40% since February. Several prominent Asian petrochemical producers have already invoked force majeure ...