Coronavirus has infected some 13,000 South African health workers and killed more than 100 of them, the health ministry said Thursday, as the virus takes a toll on frontline caregivers. South Africa holds the highest number of infections on the continent with 408,052 recorded cases and 5,940 deaths so far. It is also the world’s […]

Serbian police have arrested a group suspected of an online scam worth more than $70 million following a joint investigation with the FBI, the interior ministry announced Friday. Eleven people from Australia, Montenegro, the Philippines and Serbia were detained on charges that they “created, promoted and organised” 16 fake investment platforms. They are suspected of […]

Russia continues to supply a broad range of arms to Libyan rebels including fighter jets, air defense missiles, land mines, and armored vehicles through the state-backed mercenary Wagner Group, the US Defense Department said Friday. The Pentagon released satellite photographs that it said shows Wagner-supplied military equipment “on the front lines” of the Libyan conflict […]

A Chinese researcher who took refuge in the country’s San Francisco consulate to avoid visa fraud charges has been arrested and will appear in court Friday, a US Justice department official said. Tang Juan, who allegedly hid her ties to the People’s Liberation Army when applying to undertake cancer treatment research at University of California-Davis, […]

Nearly 70 inmates staged a brazen escape from a detention centre in South Africa’s wine-producing town of Malmesbury on Friday after overpowering guards, before most were re-arrested, the government said. The inmates, who were awaiting trial, broke out around midday during routine physical exercise at the facility situated about 65 kilometres (40 miles) north of […]