VIENNA – The death toll has risen to 19 in the extreme weather and flooding let loose by storm Boris in central Europe, authorities said yesterday after a new victim was reported in Austria.High winds and unusually heavy rainfall have hit swathes of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia since Friday. An...
DOHA – Qatar’s foreign ministry said yesterday efforts to forge a Gaza truce were “ongoing”, after several rounds of talks aimed at ending the now 11-month war ended without a breakthrough. “The efforts are still ongoing, and channels of communication remain open… the goals and visits and meetings are ongoing,” ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari told...
President Mokgweetsi Masisi stated that borders are artificial and emphasised that the institutions of Botswana and Namibia should collaborate for the benefit of both countries people. The head of state said this today while bidding farewell to Asser Kapere, High Commissioner of Namibia to Botswana.
SHANGHAI – Tens of millions of people in Shanghai and across China’s densely-populated east coast hunkered indoors yesterday as the strongest typhoon to hit since 1949 swept in, downing trees and disrupting transport across the region. Typhoon Bebinca — the fiercest storm to hit the megacity since Gloria 75 years ago — landed early yesterday...
WASHINGTON – Kamala Harris and Donald Trump yesterday headed into a newly-intense phase of the US presidential campaign, with tensions heightened after a second apparent assassination attempt against the Republican former president.The Sunday arrest of a gunman on Donald Trump’s golf course came the same day as more bomb threats poured into Springfield, Ohio, a...
KAMPALA – Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after allegedly being set on fire by her former boyfriend in Kenya, was laid to rest at her ancestral home in Bukwo in eastern Uganda on Saturday. Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the women’s marathon at the 2024 Paris Olympics and served as a sergeant in the...
JOHANNESBURG – When artist Robin Rhode needed a canvas for his latest work, he found it at an abandoned sports ground in his dysfunctional hometown of Johannesburg. Beneath the waist-high grass, broken bottles and an occasional bullet casing, he uncovered a decades-old miniature golf course, indoor soccer fields and a tennis training wall. And that’s...
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday warned Yemen’s Huthi rebels of retaliation after the group claimed a missile attack on central Israel.“This morning, the Huthis launched a surface-to-surface missile from Yemen into our territory. They should have known by now that we charge a heavy price for any attempt to harm us,” Netanyahu...
CARACAS – Three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech citizen have been detained in Venezuela on suspicion of plotting to destabilise the country, the government said, as the United States and Spain denied Caracas’s allegations they were involved. The arrests come amid heightened tensions between Venezuela and both the United States and Spain over Venezuela’s...
DAKAR – Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye last week vowed to “relentlessly track down” migrant traffickers a day after news that at least 35 people had drowned off West Africa. Faye, elected in March, called on the country’s young people to stay in Senegal rather than falling for the “illusion” of a better future elsewhere....