President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended national police commissioner Fannie Masemola as investigators examine alleged procurement violations linked to a multimillion-rand matter.
Officials said a riot at a maximum-security prison in Venezuela killed at least five inmates, with broader casualty figures not yet verified in the brief report.
Parliament has approved legislation that will stop people born after December 31, 2008 from ever buying cigarettes, creating one of the world’s toughest anti-smoking regimes.
The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on federal fraud charges over past payments to confidential informants used to infiltrate extremist groups.
French investigators were reported to be examining allegations that two Lebanese banks moved billions of dollars out of the country despite capital controls.
A gunman opened fire at Mexico’s Teotihuacan pyramids, killing a Canadian woman, injuring at least 13 people and then dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Preliminary and near-final counts point to a first single-party majority in decades, with Boyko Borissov conceding and EU leaders congratulating Radev.
Federal prosecutors say Shamim Mafi helped broker weapons deals linked to Iran and Africa, including Sudan, and now faces the prospect of a long prison term.
Bulgarians voted in a snap parliamentary election shaped by anti-corruption protests, repeated government collapses and a possible shift in the country’s geopolitical line.
Italian local reporting, carried in the packet, says the men were shot near Gurdwara Mata Sahib Kaur Ji in Bergamo province on the event date, 2026-04-18.
A Pentagon review panel examining the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal says it has finished a major round of interviews with senior military and civilian officials and is now moving into the next stage of analysis.
Irish media reports that Daniel Kinahan has been arrested in Dubai as Irish authorities continue to pursue alleged organized-crime offenses tied to the Kinahan network.
An South African court has sentenced EFF leader Julius Malema to five years in jail over a rifle fired at a 2018 rally, though he remains free pending appeal.
Nepal’s new government has created a commission to investigate the assets of current and former public officials, part of a broader anti-corruption drive.
Riot police were sent to Epsom High Street after protesters demanded answers over a rape investigation and officers said the force would not tolerate disorder.