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Johannesburg, July 5 (AFP/APP):Chief Justice Raymond Zondo’s welcoming and cheerful smile belies an uncompromising nature that saw the jailing of former South African president Jacob Zuma during a high-level corruption probe. Over the past four years, the 62-year-old has led a sweeping investigation that revealed […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, July 5 (AFP/APP):After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yuriy Makeyev found himself homeless and jobless: a combination of circumstances that brought him to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Now the 48-year-old, who has fled his home in the war-torn east, believes he […]

BourgSaintPierre, Switzerland, July 5 (AFP/APP): In a remote, secluded valley in the Swiss Alps, a line of rusty ski lift masts scar the grassy hillside where cows lazily graze. The lifts at the once bustling Super Saint Bernard ski resort in Switzerland’s southern Wallis canton, […]

Tripoli, July 4 (AFP/APP): Libya’s Tripoli-based government sought on Monday to quell public anger over chronic power cuts, devoting its weekly meeting to the electricity sector and admitting it had underestimated the problem. The meeting followed a night of angry protests across the capital, where […]

NEW YORK, Jul 04 (APP): Americans are celebrating their Independence Day Monday amid soaring inflation, deepening divisions, and a recent set of polls showing that the vast majority of people across party lines are unhappy with the state of affairs in the US. In an […]

Khartoum, July 4 (AFP/APP):Sudan’s coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Monday the army would make way for a civilian government and would “not participate” in national talks facilitated by the UN and regional blocs. The decision was taken “to make room for political and revolutionary […]

CAIRO, Egypt – July 04 (ONLINE) Two women were killed in shark attacks in Egypt’s Red Sea, south of the city of Hurghada, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment said on Sunday. Two sources told Reuters that the body of a Romanian tourist in her late […]

ROME, Italy – July 04 (ONLINE) Parts of a mountain glacier collapsed in the Italian Alps on Sunday amid record temperatures, local authorities said, killing at least six people and injuring eight. The Trento provincial government said rescue operations were in progress after a large […]

SEOUL, July 4 (Xinhua/APP): South Korea reported 6,253 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Sunday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 18,395,864, the health authorities said Monday. The daily caseload was down from 10,059 in the previous day, but […]

BEIJING,July 4 (Xinhua/APP): A study revealed that around 5,500 years ago, people had already developed agriculture in sustainable intensification of millet and pigs in north China. Previous studies, through the carbon isotope data of domestic pig bones, believed that both pigs and humans in the […]