15+ hour, 10+ min ago   (809+ words) Campaign trail theatre or not, Trump’s proposal of paying every US adult $5,000 if the Republicans win the midterm elections tells us considerably more about Republican weakness than Republican strength Natale Labia writes on the economy and finance. Partner and chief…...

15+ hour, 27+ min ago   (445+ words) BRUSSELS, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney wants a closer relationship with the European Union and is exploring whether his country could become an "associate member" of the bloc, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The EU, which…...

17+ hour, 54+ min ago   (1619+ words) Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Babalwa Lobishe’s State of the Metro Address – delivered at a gala dinner estimated to have cost ratepayers R235,000 – was boycotted not only by opposition parties but by several of her coalition partners, as the metro battles water,…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (398+ words) SYDNEY, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A shortage of air traffic controllers caused flight cancellations and delays at Sydney Airport on Friday morning, the federal agency responsible for managing Australia's air traffic said, as probes continue into several recent near-misses at the airport....

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1016+ words) DALLAS, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Vice President JD Vance took center stage at the Republican Dallas convention on Thursday in a speech seen as an early test of his 2028 White House prospects, offering a message of nationalistic pride that resonated with the…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1623+ words) Deon Snyman is a political theologian who has worked in community development for the past 35 years and currently serves as Managing Director of the Goedgedacht Trust. Thirty years ago, at the end of 1996, I came back to Nongoma after spending…...

4+ day, 24+ min ago   (513+ words) A Hong Kong court convicted Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, on Thursday of attempting to block a reporter from becoming the head of a press union, but cleared it of unlawfully firing her. Journalist Selina Cheng…...

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4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (904+ words) DALLAS, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Republicans opened their unusual midterm convention on Wednesday with plenty of praise for Donald Trump and scathing attacks on "dangerous" Democrats, placing a risky bet that the president's brand can energize core backers despite his broad unpopularity....

5+ day, 4+ min ago   (242+ words) For more than 450 years Africa has sat on the world map a diminished shade of itself, but now the redrawing of those maps has become vital for African self-determination, curriculum reform and dismantling Eurocentric historical narratives. As an African, growing…...