The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has urged South Africa to end xenophobic attacks and the intimidation of foreign nationals in the country. Guterres, in a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr Stéphane Dujarric, expressed deep concern over the situation and strongly condemned criminal acts and incitement to violence against migrants in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape Province….
Britain’s King Charles III met Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, kicking off a high-stakes state visit shadowed by transatlantic tensions and a fresh alleged attempt to assassinate the US president. Behind the warm welcome for Charles and Queen Camilla in front of the cameras lay a deepening rift in the “special relationship” between Washington and London…
Elon Musk’s courtroom showdown with Sam Altman got underway here Monday with the start of jury selection in a trial over the billionaire’s accusation that his OpenAI co-founders betrayed a non-profit mission to build artificial intelligence for the good of humanity and not for the money. The legal clash in a courtroom across the bay from San Francisco pits…
The death toll in a Colombian highway bombing blamed on cocaine-trafficking rebels has risen to 21, the government said Monday, in the country’s worst attack on civilians in decades and just ahead of elections. Saturday’s bombing in the southwestern Cauca department which the government blamed on guerrillas opposed to a decade-old peace process, comes one month before Colombia holds…
Jihadists and Tuareg separatists in Mali have taken control of the key northern town of Kidal after coordinated attacks on strategic junta positions across the country, an ally of the local governor and local sources said. Two days of fierce fighting between the army and jihadists allied with Tuareg rebels have plunged the junta-led west African country into uncertainty…
Pope Leo XIV met on Monday with the first woman to lead the world’s Anglican Christians, the newly enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, urging unity to evangelise more effectively. The papal audience at the Vatican was part of Mullally’s first trip abroad since taking up her groundbreaking role last month as the first woman to hold the role…
