South Africa's president has condemned days of widespread looting and arson attacks on foreign-owned businesses across Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria, calling the violence “totally unacceptable”.
Scottish workers at spirits giant Diageo have confirmed plans to strike this month after pay talks collapsed.
The pound has dropped to its lowest point since 1985, after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to call another general election in October if parliament hobbles his efforts to pull the UK out of the EU without a deal. The UK currency plummeted by 0.66% against the US dollar in early trading on Tuesday,...
Saudi Arabia has deployed more troops in southern Yemen to try to contain clashes between nominal allies in the Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis. The fight for the south of the country has opened a new conflict, focused around the port of Aden, Reuters said. Saudi soldiers and armed vehicles arrived over the weekend...
An unarmed two-seater combat jet has gone down outside the town of Budennovsk in North Caucasus, prompting a search for both pilots, who managed to eject from the plane, the Russian defense ministry has said.
A MAN died in a freak farm accident in Kerry as he was apparently trying to rescue livestock.
Moscow's Presnensky District Court on Tuesday sentenced Russian blogger Vladislav Sinitsa, who was charged with extremism over his tweets, published after unsanctioned protests in the capital, threatening the children of Russian law enforcement officers. He was sentenced to five years in a general regime colony.The indictment says Sinitsa had published “extremism-related” calls on social media...
