Police fired teargas at opposition activists protesting Friday against alleged racism at a Cape Town school where a whites-only dance party was allegedly organised last month. Anti-riot police aimed teargas and water cannon towards hundreds of members of the radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) gathered near the school. The protesters dispersed and later regrouped […]

President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate veteran diplomat Antony Blinken as his secretary of state, a decision likely to signal a return to multilateralism after Donald Trump’s shunning of traditional allies, US media reported Sunday. The 58-year-old Blinken, a former deputy secretary of state under Barack Obama, is also a longtime aide to Biden. Bloomberg […]

Hundreds of thousands of voters in Burkina Faso were unable to cast ballots in Sunday’s general election due to security threats, officials said, as the West African nation grapples with a growing jihadist insurgency. An undisclosed number of troops were deployed for the presidential and parliamentary polls, which are widely expected to see President Roch […]

Britain’s Supreme Court will on Monday hear the case of a woman stripped of her UK citizenship after joining the Islamic State in Syria, who wants to return to appeal the ruling. The government in July won its bid to have the country’s highest court consider whether Shamima Begum, 20, should be allowed to return […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel and her deputy, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, have prepared Germans in principle for a tightening of the current partial lockdown ahead of talks with the premiers of the country’s 16 federal states planned for Wednesday.   Restaurants, bars and other venues were closed for the month of November and contacts restricted to […]