Police officers in Peru dressed up as 2026 World Cup mascots as they targeted a suspected drug trafficker, who is a ‘die-hard football fan, living and breathing the World Cup fever’.
The Chinese car in front, the NIO, costs less than the BMW and Audi, yet delivers far greater value.
For too long legacy automakers sold prestige while offering less value for money.
We choose to be scammed by obsessing over legacy brands.
American credibility has deteriorated to the point where the president can announce a diplomatic agreement and the near-universal reaction is "let's wait for confirmation from Tasnim"
The wife and family of an Indian sailor killed in a US strike on a tanker off Oman this week have gathered in mourning.
Three Indian sailors died after Washington targeted the Palau-flagged vessel claiming that it was attempting to transport Iranian oil.
The shift from a "destroy Iran" rhetoric to a "deal on the table" did not happen in a vacuum.
The initial Iranian terms—previously agreed upon in principle—had left Trump no room to claim a clear victory. So, after that preliminary agreement, he backtracked, sending his own amendments back to Tehran through mediators.
But Iran did not respond. Instead, it left him in a state of wait-and-see for days, while signaling its readiness to resume the war—by striking Israel first and the “incident” in Hormuz second. Through these gestures, Tehran was saying: You cannot spin your way out of military failure.
In response, Trump attempted military pressure, synchronizing it with the mediators' presence in Tehran. Yet Iran answered on both nights of escalation—hitting twice as many targets as were struck inside Iran. At that point, he seems to have lost any hope of forcing Tehran into acceptance.
The announcement of a deal, after all this, is essentially an announcement of retreat—back to what had already been agreed upon. It is, above all, a diplomatic translation of military failure. If this framework agreement is indeed signed, we are looking at the beginning of a new era—for Iran and the region alike.
This will frighten some and please others, as winners and losers are now clearly exposed. More to come in the days ahead.
It is another reason that I cannot for the life of me understand or accept the comparisons of this group to Fees Must Fall.
Fees Must Fall drew global attention and admiration because it was a just cause, it drew support and replicated itself because at the core of its demand was education so that we can all better ourselves.
This rubbish of hunting people door to door and asking for passports, and stopping pregnant women at clinics asking for passports, should never be compared to Fees Must Fall. That is a disgrace.
It appears “Phakelumthakathi” knows something the former Statistician-General of South Africa doesn’t.
Nkepile Mabuse: What will the economy look like if, hypothetically, undocumented migrants would leave?
Dr Pali Lehohla: It’s not going to change. Business is White, it will continue to dominate, and Blacks will wake up to a disillusion—as disillusioned people—that “we thought they are gone, we will survive”.
We have to deal with the economic policies that will make South Africa the engine.
Reality check is upon South Africans now. They are protesting begging foreigners to come back as most of their factories are shut down due to lack of human capital.
They should ask Jacinta and her group to provide machinists. This is just the beginning.
Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.
This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.
We have businesses abroad, students, lecturers, residents, we have sporting teams that compete in international competitions.
One can only imagine the uncomfortable situations they find themselves in, simply because this government is unable to reign in a barefoot Ku Klux Klan that has no appreciation of global community.
Yesterday’s FIFA World Cup Opening showed what this handful of hateful Ntelezi idiots have done for South Africa’s international reputation and decades of goodwill.
All the genuine outrage against illegal immigration has drowned under their violent acts, human rights violations and threats while they run around the country barefoot telling us they are “men”
Decades of goodwill built on international solidarity, opposition to Israeli genocide in Palestine, cooperation with other nations, gone to dust.
Football is a global language where even politics find expression, and these jokes about how SA at the World Cup is in a “rush to go home and defend their jobs and women” or how “They can’t attack Mexico because they are not African and Black” - this is not only banter, it’s political satire
It shows how the world view is shifting towards viewing South Africa as a hub of hate, something that has never been part of our identity. I mean we are being compared to Argentina and Morocco, who have committed human rights atrocities against Africans respectively.
The State should take responsibility for allowing hate groups which stop children at clinics, schools, beat people and in some instances incite murder, to define our international identity. It’s not a joke, and we cannot banter our way out of it. It’s a stain.
South Africa being regarded as the hate capital of Africa at a FIFA World Cup would have been unimaginable in 2010.
Israel is smiling wherever it is, because its mission accomplished. We have lost our moral authority on the global stage.