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  • This screenshot obtained from video feed via Court TV on April 15, 2021, shows former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin(R), who is accused of killing George Floyd,

    Ex-policeman Derek Chauvin found guilty of George Floyd's murder

    The jury deliberated less than 11 hours before finding 45-year-old Chauvin guilty of all three charges against him: second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.

    2 days ago
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin participates via video link in a ceremony launching a gold processing facility in Kyrgyzstan, in Moscow on 17 March 2021. Picture: Alexei Druzhinin/AFP

    Vladimir Putin: bringing power back to Russia at all costs

    Making sure that Russia is not just listened to, but respected and even feared, has been at the heart of Putin's presidency since he came to power in 1999 as a relatively unknown ex-spy.

    2 days ago
  • FILE: A scuffle broke out after journalists were invited to come into the MDC Alliance headquarters in Harare where police were conducting a search operation during the 2018 elections. Picture: Masechaba Sefularo/Eyewitness News.

    Freedom index finds journalism blocked in 130+ countries

    The Middle East and North Africa region continues to be the most repressive for journalists, the report found, highlighting the worsening situation in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria over the past year.

    3 days ago
  • FILE: The only exceptions are for passengers in transit who cannot leave the airport nor remain there longer than 24 hours. Picture: 123rf.com

    Spain extends ban on Brazil, South Africa arrivals

    Only legal residents or nationals of Spain and the neighbouring micro-state of Andorra are currently allowed in on flights from these countries.

    3 days ago
  • Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a statement on coronavirus statistics and testing and lockdown measures during a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on 5 November 2020. Picture: AFP

    UK vows to slash emissions by more than three-quarters by 2035

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his latest legally binding target, which is 15 years earlier than once planned, ahead of staging COP26, the UN's annual climate gathering, in Glasgow in November.

    3 days ago
  • Picture: 123rf.com

    COVID-19 vaccine-makers largely protected on side effects

    Pharmaceutical companies making COVID-19 vaccines are largely protected legally in the event of harmful side effects, like blood clots that have been linked to jabs from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.

    3 days ago
  • FILE: A sign is posted at the Johnson & Johnson campus on 26 August 2019 in Irvine, California. Picture: AFP.

    J&J and other drugmakers go on trial over US opioid crisis

    J&J, Teva, Endo and Allergan are accused of trivialising the dangers of long-term use of opioid painkillers to boost sales in a lawsuit filed by several California counties and the city of Oakland.

    3 days ago
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about climate change, at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis, Maryland, on 19 April 2021. Picture: Jacquelyn Martin/AFP

    US vows to lead on climate, press world to reduce coal use

    Casting climate change as a national security issue, Blinken warned both of major impact around the planet - and risks to the United States if it does not raise its own efforts.

    3 days ago
  • A picture taken on 28 June 2016 shows the logo of Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom. Picture: AFP.

    Czechs ban Rosatom from nuclear tender, rule out Sputnik vaccine

    The announcements follow tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats after Prague accused Russia's secret services of being behind a fatal explosion on Czech territory in 2014.

    3 days ago
  • This screenshot obtained from video feed via Court TV on April 15, 2021, shows former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin(R), who is accused of killing George Floyd,

    Jury begins deliberations in George Floyd murder trial

    Prosecutors, in closing arguments to the jury, which will be sequestered during deliberations, repeatedly showed the harrowing video seen by millions around the world.

    3 days ago
  • In this file photo Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands inside a glass cell during a court hearing at the Babushkinsky district court in Moscow on 20 February 2021. Picture: AFP

    Russia moves Navalny to prison hospital under Western pressure

    The United States on Sunday threatened Russia with "consequences" if President Vladimir Putin's major domestic opponent -- who launched a hunger strike three weeks ago -- dies in jail, with Navalny's private doctors warning at the weekend he could pass away at "any minute".

    4 days ago
  • FILE: Coca-Cola scored stronger volumes in China and India, but lower volumes in the United States and Europe due to lingering effects from COVID-19. Picture: Lily Oh / 123rf.com

    Coca-Cola hopeful COVID-19 vaccines will reverse profit slide

    The soda giant, which relies on sporting events, concerts and other public venues for a significant fraction of its sales, described performance as a mixed bag, depending on the region.

    4 days ago
  • Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. Picture: @NASA/Twitter

    NASA's Mars helicopter succeeds in historic first flight

    At 3:34 am Eastern Time (0734 GMT), the four pound (1.8 kilogram) rotorcraft lifted off, hovered 10 feet (three meters) above the Martian surface, then came back to rest after 39.1 seconds.

    4 days ago
  • Family members, with help from the municipal staff, transfer the bodies of the patients who died of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease from the ambulance at a crematorium in Bangalore, India, on 15 April 2021. Picture: Manjunath Kiran/AFP

    Global COVID death toll passes three million

    It is the latest grim milestone since the novel coronavirus first surfaced in central China in December 2019 and went on to infect more than 139 million people.

    4 days ago
  • Men cover a painting of George Floyd at his memorial site on June 9, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Residents of the community, and people around the world, have come together in calling for an end to police brutality after the death of George Floyd, who was killed while in Minneapolis police custody on May 25th. Picture: Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP

    Jury in George Floyd murder trial to hear closing arguments

    Derek Chauvin, a 19-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department, faces a maximum of 40 years in prison if convicted of the most serious charge - second-degree murder.

    4 days ago
  • A health worker takes a nasal swab sample of a passenger for the COVID-19 coronavirus test after arriving at a railway platform on a long-distance train, in Mumbai on 14 April 2021. Picture: Punit Paranjpe/AFP

    Week-long lockdown in New Delhi as virus cases soar

    The nation of 1.3 billion people reported a record-high of 273,810 infections on Monday - the fifth consecutive day of more than 200,000 cases - to take the total to just over 15 million.

    4 days ago
  • FILE: Protesters march in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in downtown Moscow on 23 January 2021. The placard with an image of the Kremlin critic reads "Freedom to Navalny!". Picture: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP

    Russia says Navalny to be transferred to prison hospital

    He was thrown behind bars in February for more than two years on old embezzlement charges, just weeks after he returned to Moscow from Germany where he had been recuperating from a near-fatal poisoning attack.

    4 days ago
  • Lindsay and Lindani Myeni. Lindani was shot and killed by Hawaii police in April 2021. Picture: Facebook/Lindsay Myeni

    Lindani Myeni's widow battles to make sense of his killing at hands of US police

    The 29-year-old former KwaZulu-Natal rugby player was shot dead by Hawaii police last week.

    4 days ago
  • FILE: Activists and supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a religious party, shout slogans during an anti-France demonstration in Islamabad on 16 November 2020. Picture: AFP

    Radical Pakistan party releases 11 police hostages after anti-France protests

    The officers were grabbed as hostages Sunday by supporters of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) during violent protests in Lahore.

    4 days ago
  • The Nasa Mars rover Perseverance has sent back images of the planet after making its landing. Picture: @NASAPersevere/Twitter

    NASA aims for historic helicopter flight on Mars

    The space agency had originally planned the flight for April 11 but postponed it over a software issue that was identified during a planned high-speed test of the aircraft's rotors.

    4 days ago
  • Sound of Metal director Darius Marder, Riz Ahmed, and Paul Raci photographed by Josh Telles for Deadline.

    'Tipping point': Oscars filmmakers hail disability progress

    Real progress came in 1987 when Marlee Matlin, who is deaf, won the Academy Award for best actress for "Children of a Lesser God."

    4 days ago
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