Ghana on Tuesday said a visit between President John Mahama and counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa had been postponed amid anti-immigrant violence in South Africa. Accra and Pretoria have been at diplomatic loggerheads over a wave of protests, some of them violent, against foreigners in South Africa, where Ramaphosa is president. France 24’s Justice Baidoo reports. Source … Read more
A photograph linking a senior South African diplomat with former president Jacob Zuma and controversial businessman Ajay Gupta has sparked political scrutiny. International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola has ordered an internal report into High Commissioner to India Anil Sooklal after the image emerged last week. The Gupta family became synonymous with South Africa’s “State Capture” … Read more
Speaking at the #NATO summit in Ankara, #US President Donald #Trump announced the ceasefire with #Tehran was ending. It comes after the US launched what it called retaliatory strikes against #Iran. Source link
Firefighters in France are still fighting large wildfires, with a blaze in Pyrénées-Orientales in the south of the country not yet fully contained with 12,000 people evacuated. Fires are also raging In the Drôme and on the island of Corsica. Source link
OpenAI is set to launch its GPT-5.6 AI model series on Thursday, weeks after postponing the launch in June following a review of potential security risks by US authorities. According to Axios, the White House has now approved the launch after technical testing and discussions with OpenAI officials. OpenAI describes its GPT-5.6 model as the … Read more
Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight killed at least two people while Kyiv targeted sites in Russia in drone attacks just hours ahead of a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky at a NATO summit. France 24’s Gulliver Cragg has the latest. Source link
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the memorandum of understanding signed with Iran to end the conflict was “over”, adding he did not want to engage with Tehran, calling the Iranian leadership “sick people”. Speaking at a summit of NATO leaders in Ankara, Trump also said he had ordered his Treasury Secretary Scott … Read more
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen announced on Tuesday that she will run for president in 2027, after an appeals court shortened her ban on running for office, even as it upheld her conviction for embezzling EU funds to pay party staff. She also said she would appeal the conviction. Le Pen immediately launched her … Read more
World Cup favorites Les Bleus face their toughest challenge of the tournament when they meet high-flying Morocco in the quarter-finals on Thursday, in a rematch of the 2022 semi-final that ended the Atlas Lions’ historic run in Qatar. Source link
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his willingness to sell Turkey F-35 fighter jets, a move which is likely to face strong resistance in Congress and which Israeli Prime Minister said would “destroy” the balance of power in the Middle East. Source link