Foreign News

By Raymond Suttner   With the departure of Jacob Zuma as ANC and state president and the positive reception accorded to the initial period of the Cyril Ramaphosa presidency, the question arises whether the ANC can recover the ground it lost under the leadership of Zuma, and what that in …

Thomas Sullivan, aka “Luscious” Johnny Valiant, is dead after a pickup truck hit him in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, United State of America. Valiant, who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996, was 71. Police said that Valiant ran across a busy road, not in a crosswalk, when …

Conviction of Park Geun-hye, former president of South Korea, over a corruption scandal has elicited mixed reactions from people here in this Asia Pacific country. She was sentenced to 24 years in prison and a fine of $16m on charges of bribery, extortion and influence-peddling in a court ruling. Park, …

Foreign ministers of Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia have failed to reach an agreement in the lingering dispute over Ethiopia’s massive dam on the Blue Nile, ministers said. Egypt is concerned that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will drastically impact its own share of water from the Nile, on which the …

A Washington state woman is suing an Idaho fertility doctor after discovering through an online ancestry website that the man had secretly fathered her. Kelli Rowlette and the parents who raised her, Sally Ashby and her then-husband Howard Fowler, filed the lawsuit in Idaho district court in March against Dr. …

African asylum seekers in Israel have voiced concern over Tel Aviv’s agreement with the UN to resettle half of them in Western countries. A number of African migrants and asylum seekers told Al Jazeera they remain sceptical that the new plan could bring any real change for those who are …

Government of Kenya has started marking rhinos and aims to tag and identify 22 of them in two weeks at a cost of $600 000, senior government officials said, as part of conserving their dwindling numbers. The project comes just weeks after the world’s last male northern white rhino died …

A Sierra Leone court on Saturday upheld a request by a member of the ruling party for an injunction to delay a presidential election run-off that was meant to happen next Tuesday. The party member, Ibrahim Sorie Koroma, filed for the injunction on Thursday, saying there was evidence of electoral …

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Friday that bans some transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military, but gives the armed forces latitude in implementing policies. The memorandum said transgender individuals with a history of gender dysphoria, defined as “those who may require substantial medical treatment, including through …

A French police officer who offered himself up to an Islamic extremis gunman who went on a deadly rampage in southern France in exchange for one of the female hostages on Friday, has died. The gunman killed three people and wounded 16 others when he stole a car, fired at …