South African Tribune

Austrian security authorities said on Thursday that they conducted nationwide anti-terrorism raids on Tuesday night targeting 72 alleged extremists. The Austrian Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN) said in a statement that Tuesday's raids involved house searches, operations at several prisons, interrogations of suspects, and the seizure of mobile…

Malaysia's retail industry recorded a weaker-than-expected growth rate of 0.6 percent in retail sales, as compared to the same period in 2023, amid rising prices, according to the Retail Group Malaysia (RGM). The RGM said in a report on Thursday that this latest quarterly result was below market expectation, as…

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said here on Thursday that China is willing to further expand the scale of bilateral trade with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), explore cooperation in new energy, electric vehicles, high-end manufacturing, biomedicine, digital economy and other fields, jointly make a forward-looking layout of emerging industries and…

A profound economic destruction has gripped the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the aftermath of the Israeli military operation in Gaza, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report released on Thursday. The report highlighted the staggering scale of economic devastation and unprecedented decline in economic activity,…

Chinese telecoms company Huawei will support the efforts of Africa's tower companies (TowerCos) to diversify their energy sources and reduce their carbon footprint, a senior executive said Wednesday at a forum in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. Li Shaolong, president of Huawei Site Power Facility Domain, stressed that tower companies play…

Crew of U.S. Polaris Dawn mission have completed a spacewalk on Thursday, marking the first time commercial astronauts have space-walked from a commercial spacecraft, according to SpaceX. The spacewalk started at around 6:13 a.m. Eastern Time (1013 GMT). Two astronauts of the four-member all-civilian crew wore the SpaceX-newly-designed extravehicular activity…

The United Kingdom's (UK) Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that there will be "no more money without reform" for the national health service (NHS) following a critical report on its current state. "We have to fix the plumbing before turning on the taps," Starmer said in a speech…

General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury passed away at the age of 72 in New Delhi on Thursday. He was admitted to a government hospital after he suffered from an acute chest infection. A Communist leader in Indian politics for several decades, Yechury served as…

FC Barcelona's young Spanish international midfielder Gavi returned to training with the first team on Thursday, almost 11 months after suffering a serious knee injury. Gavi suffered a torn cruciate ligament playing for Spain against Georgia on November 19, 2023, requiring an operation and a long recovery, which also saw…

Some international development partners talk about Africa as if it were a problem to be fixed. So they write prescriptions -- "change this and that and you will be better." But Africa is not a problem. Africa is a promise. To deliver on this promise, Africans must act together. A…