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The shortages have disrupted businesses and threaten to worsen the woes of an economy expected to shrink 13% in 2020

Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift by consumers towards digital channels and online shopping

Police find his body on  a mountain near Seoul a day after his daughter reported him missing

Nearly 60,000 new Covid-19 infections were reported on Wednesday and deaths rose by 948

Six members are related to each other, though not to the president, and nine are from the same town as the president, leading to cries of ‘cronyism’

Nearly 780 health service workers have tested positive for Covid-19 and many more are in precautionary isolation, leaving some of Ghana's hospitals understaffed

Once a church, then a mosque, it is now a museum and one of the most visited sites in Turkey

The ruling makes clear that a sitting US president cannot evade criminal investigations, something Trump’s lawyers have long maintained

Funding for the use of convalescent plasma as a treatment is being fast-tracked as the US has scooped up other potential therapies

Democratic presidential challenger will unveil policies intended to foster manufacturing and encourage innovation

The independent panel will help ‘understand what happened’ as the WHO staves off criticism, as it had to after the 2014 Ebola crisis

Mouldy, squalid cells in the country are ‘a horror’, with one prison population at three times its capacity

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The flow of money from VBS Bank would seem to suggest that the EFF’s second-in-command was an ultimate beneficiary of proceeds of a crime The post The case against Floyd Shivambu appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Journalists need to value criticism of their work to the same degree they value press freedom, argues Julie Reid in this extract from ‘Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in the News Media’ The post Book extract: Media critique is not a crime appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Advocates of retaining Afrikaans as a language of instruction are blind to their own prejudices The post On language, power and privilege in tertiary education appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Cape Town’s oldest roadhouse is hoping to make a comeback during the coronavirus lockdown. Nostalgia is the biggest seller The post Back in time to meals on wheels appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Public-private partnerships and big infrastructure builds have been suggested as ways to boost South Africa’s flagging economy. Another option to consider is green bonds, which would also help achieve climate crisis goals The post Jury’s out on green recovery appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

It is clear that the democratic government has failed the taxi industry, not only now during the Covid-19 pandemic, but for decades. The post Taxis: The illegitimate children of Mzansi’s transport industry appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Out of more than 25 000 schools in the country, 8 047 were in hotspots and 6 995 of these were public schools. And most of Gauteng’s and the Western Cape’s schools are in hotspots The post Most Gauteng, Western Cape schools in hotspots appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

The active case count of Gauteng surpasses that of whole countries. Workers at clinics report a ‘concerning’ relaxation of basic health protocols The post People’s behaviour stoking Gauteng pandemic appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

Covid-19 is not the first health crisis to plague Snake Park. For decades the residents have lived with the mine, which they say blows clouds of dust into their homes The post Toxic dust from an abandoned mine coupled with Covid-19 is a tinderbox appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.

A man found guilty of plotting terrorist attacks on crowded central London tourist attractions including a Gay Pride march has been jailed for life.

The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that President Donald Trump must hand over his tax returns to New York prosecutors but temporarily blocked Congress from accessing his financial records.

Afghanistan is to release more Taliban prisoners in the hope of getting peace talks going, a government spokesperson has said.

Seoul's outspoken mayor Park Won-soon, long seen as a potential South Korean presidential candidate, was found dead, police say. He was 64.

The World Health Organisation has released new guidelines on the transmission of the novel coronavirus that acknowledge some reports of airborne transmission of the virus that causes Covid-19.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that it is setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Applications for unemployment benefits in the US declined last week by more than projected.

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged world leaders to favour clean energy solutions as they pour money into their economies to save them from a coronavirus-induced meltdown.

Cesar Duarte, fugitive ex-governor of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, has been arrested in the United States on corruption charges.

Tesla founder Elon Musk said that the world's recently crowned most valuable auto company could achieve a fully autonomous car by the end of 2020.

Facebook's decisions to allow controversial posts by President Donald Trump established a "terrible precedent," according to an external civil rights audit.

More than 12 million coronavirus infections have been recorded across the world, over half in the United States and Latin America.

Park Won-soon, whose body was recovered early Friday on a mountain in the capital, would be the highest-profile South Korean politician to do so since former president Roh Moo-hyun, who jumped off a cliff in 2009.

On Monday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said foreign students enrolled in fully online programs for the fall semester would not be allowed to enter the country.

The Democratic challenger's manufacturing and innovation plan aims to bring back jobs lost during the coronavirus pandemic, and create more than five million new jobs by investing in domestic production and research and shrinking foreign supply chains.

Kim said in her personal opinion, there is unlikely to be another summit between leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump this year but “a surprise thing may still happen".

How frequently the coronavirus spreads by the airborne or aerosol route - as opposed to by larger droplets in coughs and sneezes - is not clear.

The announcement follows strong criticism by US President Donald Trump's administration, which accused the WHO of being “China-centric".

In a 7-2 ruling, the court said the president does not have absolute immunity from criminal investigation.

Naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough on Thursday warned the coronavirus crisis could kill off the world's oldest zoological society.

Residents have been told to stay at home for six weeks after other measures to contain a spike in COVID-19 failed to prevent the virus spreading.

Transcripts of the police officers' body camera footage, filed Tuesday in Minnesota state court by Thomas Lane, one of the officers involved in George Floyd's death, has revealed new details about his final moments.

The US remains by far the worst affected country, with over 132,000 deaths, while Brazil - whose virus-skeptic President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for the disease - is a distant second with close to 67,000 deaths from almost 1.7 million cases.

The coronavirus is surging in several southern hotspots including Texas, Florida, Louisiana and Arizona.

Singaporeans wearing masks and gloves began casting their ballot on Friday under the cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic that is pushing the city-state’s economy towards its deepest recession and has made concerns over jobs the focus of the election. The post Singaporeans begin voting with masks and gloves under COVID-19 cloud appeared first on SABC […]

The United States reported more than 56 300 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the third day in a row infections have risen by at least 55 000, according to a Reuters tally. The post US coronavirus cases rise by over 55 000 for third day in a row appeared first on SABC News - Breaking […]

Bolivia's President Jeanine Anez said on Thursday she has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The post Bolivia’s President Anez has tested positive for coronavirus appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader..

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday it was setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response by governments. The post WHO promises ‘honest evaluation’ of how world handled COVID-19 appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all […]

Record-breaking rises in coronavirus cases and deaths in several US states are dimming hopes of a quick economic recovery as data shows shoppers staying out of stores in areas where cases are rising the most. The post Coronavirus records in Florida, Texas and California erode hopes of economic revival appeared first on SABC News - […]

 The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a New York Prosecutor can have access to President Donald Trump’s financial records as part of a grand jury criminal investigation, pouring cold water on assertions that the President enjoyed absolute immunity while in office.  The post Court allows prosecutor access to Trump’s financial records appeared first […]

The World Health Organisation ( WHO) has announced the initiation of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark will co-chair the panel. The post Liberia’s Sirleaf to co-lead […]

Mexico on Wednesday posted afresh record for new coronavirus cases reported on a single day,with 6,995 infections, overtaking Spain to register the world'seighth highest case count, according to a Reuters tally. The post Mexico posts new case record to overtake Spain; official says virus ‘slowing’ appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, […]

The United States reported more than 60 000 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the biggest increase ever reported by a country in a single day, according to a Reuters tally. The post US coronavirus cases rise by over 60 000, setting single-day record appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, […]

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to issue new guidelines for reopening schools, Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump criticised the agency’s recommendations as too expensive and impractical. The post New US CDC school reopening guidelines promised after Trump complains appeared first on SABC News - Breaking […]