© X / @MYANC South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s party has lost a court bid to place 181 candidates on the ballot for local elections in November, leaving it at risk of being shut out of two longtime strongholds.
© Kay Nietfeld / picture alliance via Getty Images The EU’s Arctic policy is becoming increasingly important amidst global competition driven by both climate change and the region’s strategic significance. Melting Arctic ice is opening new maritime transport routes, facilitating...
US Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh. © Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla / Staff The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates despite US President Donald Trump’s repeated demands for lower borrowing costs, as stubborn inflation continues to weigh on the world’s largest econ...
FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaking during a meeting with students. © Sputnik / Sergey Guneev Russia would make short work of European nations if they decided to attack it, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
Houthi fighters celebrate next to the apparent wreckage of a Saudi F-15 fighter jet in a video released by the group on September 16, 2026 © Ansar Allah Yemen’s Houthi forces claimed on Wednesday to have shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet, releasing a video of the burning wrecka...
Ed Sheeran © Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images Top stories The Kosovo war trial looks like damage control: How far can accountability go without reaching NATO? EXPLAINER Justice has caught up with Hashim Thaci but the question of Western complicity in his crimes remains unaddressed ...
The US war with Iran cost the Pentagon approximately $38 billion in its first five months, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The bill could rise by another $2 billion to $3 billion for every additional month of fighting – and by more if hostilities intensify.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks at a press conference in Berlin, Germany, September 15, 2026 © Getty Images ; Michele Tantussi German Chancellor Freidrich Merz has reportedly canceled his planned trip to the UN General Assembly in New York, as his political future hang...
Chinese President Xi Jinping © China Pool / Getty Images The latest SCO and BRICS summits offer a glimpse of a world no longer organized around a single center of gravity. As governments from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere seek greater room to maneuver, the old archi...
FILE PHOTO: US warships during a deployment in 2014. © Getty Images / Benny Winslow The US military says it has attacked two boats that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) allegedly used in an attempt to seize an American drone.
INS Imphal, a stealth guided missile destroyer of the Indian Navy, at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, in December 2023. (REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE) © Niharika Kulkarni/NurPhoto via Getty Images India summoned Pakistan’s envoy in New Delhi on Wednesday after a Pakistani Navy ship collid...
© Facebook / Dangote Industries Nigeria’s Dangote refinery has launched a $1.6 billion initial public offering to help finance a major capacity expansion, in a share sale billed as the largest in African history.
© Donald J. Trump via Truth Social An empire is perhaps the most expensive indulgence that even the most powerful nations can afford only for a limited time. Arguments that empires are profitable are largely unconvincing and while they may enrich a narrow section of the elite, a...
Zelensky dismisses embattled prosecutor after new attack on Western-backed anti-graft agencies: As it happened rt.com
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. © Getty Images / Kevin Dietsch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of deliberately aiding the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre through years of preserving the group’s rule in Gaza, allowing it to grow stronger. He is...
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the head of Russia’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova. © Vyacheslav Prokofiev / Sputnik Russia is continuing its work in Uganda following the country’s Ebola outbreak, with specialists remaining on the ground, the head of R...
© Ihsaan Haffejee / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered police to prioritize an investigation into the deaths of eight women found across Gauteng province. The authorities said several victims had been sexually assaulted and that p...
© Getty Images / AlxeyPnferov The US has introduced a visa-restriction policy targeting South African officials and other individuals Washington accuses of enabling “uncompensated land seizures” and “race-based discrimination” against Afrikaners.