Three leading United Nations agencies warn that more than half of South Sudan's population is suffering extreme hunger, and humanitarian aid is urgently needed.
Businessman Collen Rameetsi wasn’t concerned about his welfare when South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, began implementing four-hour blackouts, known as “load-shedding,” last week to try to inch its way out of a debt and management crisis.
If the US chooses to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Europe, it would escalate the tension to a level similar to that of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis for no reason whatsoever, Russian President Vladimir Putin argued.
Two prominent Roman Catholic Church cardinals have urged an end of what they call "the plague of the homosexual agenda", telling bishops to break their complicity over cases of sexual abuse.