Protestors stormed Brazil’s congress, its presidential palace and supreme court in the capital Brasilia on Sunday. The country’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva blamed

President Cyril Ramaphosa said there was no place for racism in SA. Apartheid is over, don’t be afraid of white people. This was the message

Within hours of Eskom CEO André de Ruyter’s submitting his resignation last month, someone tried to poison him with cyanide. De Ruyter confirmed the incident

Republican Kevin McCarthy finally won enough votes to become Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives early yesterday, on the 15th roll call.  The last

The African National Congress (ANC) wrapped up its 55th national conference with a determination to kickstart its renewal programme immediately. Delegates resumed policy discussions virtually

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration is to sign a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in the country’s north, the

The World Bank seeks to expand its lending capacity to address climate change and other global crises. It will negotiate with shareholders ahead of April

On Monday a year ago a fire broke out in the parliamentary precinct and continued burning for at least three days. The fire affected the

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job. He died on Saturday at 95. On

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar politician, has had seven years added on to her sentence and will now be detained for a total of