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The meeting in Washington was held ahead of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly South African Trade, Industry, and Competition Minister Parks Tau has described his visit to Washington to discuss bilateral commercial ties with the US as “constructive.” Tau and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, were sent to the US ahead of the …

Venezuela on Friday accused the United States of waging an “undeclared war” in the Caribbean and called for a UN investigation of American strikes that killed over a dozen alleged drug traffickers on boats in recent weeks. Washington has deployed warships to international waters off Venezuela’s coast, backed by F-35 fighters sent to Puerto Rico in what it calls an …

The hostilities are being entirely “funded” by NATO, the American president said President Donald Trump has said that the US is profiting from the Ukraine conflict, contrasting his approach with the unconditional military aid provided to Kiev by the previous administration. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, Trump praised the deal he signed in July under which …

The first deployment of the US Typhon missile system in Japan is designed to “complicate” China’s military planning and may prompt it to improve its counterstrike systems, according to defence analysts. On Monday, the US military showcased the weapons system at a marine base in Iwakuni in the southwest of Honshu ahead of the annual two-week Resolute Dragon field training …

A top Russian businessman has died in mysterious circumstances, as fears grow that Vladimir Putin is carrying out a ruthless purge of his Kremlin elite. Alexander Tyunin, 50, was found dead with a bullet wound and a rifle near his corpse in the village of Kokoshkino in the Moscow region. He was the head of a chemicals plant that makes …

Only vetted individual Russian and Belarusian athletes under a neutral flag will be allowed to participate, the committee has said Russian and Belarusian teams will remain barred from the 2026 Winter Games in Italy, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has declared. The ruling extends existing sanctions, with only vetted athletes allowed to compete individually under a neutral flag. Both Russia …

The key suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has declared himself homeless after his release from jail this week. Christian Brueckner who denies any involvement in the McCann case, has been moved into emergency accommodation. According to the Daily Mirror, he was formally declared homeless in Neumunster, located around 40 miles north of Hamburg. A press secretary for the …

A Florida federal judge has tossed out a £11 billion defamation lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against The New York Times on the basis that it was too petty. US District Judge Steven Merryday ruled on Friday that Mr Trump’s 85-page lawsuit was overly long and full of “tedious and burdensome” language which had no bearing on the legal …

OPINION — There has been an argument suggesting that the international community—particularly the United States—should engage with the Taliban to hold them accountable and ensure they do not return to the same path they followed before 9/11: providing safe sanctuaries to Al Qaeda and other international terrorist groups. Advocates of such a policy often assume that the United States had …

OPINION — For the past month, it was an onslaught of news and photos of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in meetings with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Tianjin, China and then at the 80th anniversary military parade in Beijing celebrating the end of World War II and then press reports of the first joint submarine …