Albanese was the keynote speaker at the 23rd Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture at the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday. She said Nelson Mandela's name is not used to canonise him, but rather to awaken the unfinished struggle within everyone.

The 11th-hour agreement with the Japan Innovation Party (JIP) came just a day before the lower house was due to vote on Takaichi's appointment as the fifth prime minister in as many years.

Rubio "emphasized the importance of upcoming engagements as an opportunity for Moscow and Washington to collaborate on advancing a durable resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war," Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement.

Andrew's already tarnished reputation has been left in tatters by a steady stream of damaging allegations about his friendship with the late convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

"Our goal was to establish a relationship with him and to get a commitment to ongoing discussion, and he was open to both," Tim Law, co-founder of the US-based Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA), told AFP afterwards.

Pavkovic was sentenced by The Hague-based UN tribunal in 2009 to 22 years in prison for crimes against ethnic Albanians during the 1990s Kosovo war. The verdict was confirmed in 2014 and he had been serving his sentence in Finland.

Messages on the maintenance site for Amazon Web Services (AWS) confirmed "increased error rates" for multiple services and said its engineers were working to restore operations.

They were teachers and lawyers, military veterans and fired government employees. Children and grandmothers, students and retirees.

The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem, the secretary, and other top department officials at a cost of $172 million, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

Huge crowds have gathered to protest against President Donald Trump's policies in cities across the US - among them New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles.

Celebrations of the government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus were muted after one party refused to sign, with police also firing tear gas to quash rock-throwing protesters ahead of the ceremony.

Randrianirina led the CAPSAT army unit that mutinied and joined anti-government protesters before announcing the military had taken over after Rajoelina was impeached for desertion of duty on Tuesday.

"Whether meningitis... diarrhoea, respiratory illnesses, we're talking about a mammoth amount of work," Hanan Balkhy, regional director for the United Nations' health body, told AFP in Cairo.

Trump's comments come just days after he said that the Hamas shootings -- which include public executions -- "didn't bother me much" and described them as killings of gang members.

The security forces triggered chaos as they fired on tens of thousands of people at Kasarani stadium on the outskirts of the capital after part of the crowd surged towards a VIP area.

In a statement, race director Rui Marques said an official weather forecast had predicted a heat index higher than 31 degrees Celsius (88F) during Saturday's sprint and Sunday's Grand Prix race.

Randrianirina has faced international criticism after his CAPSAT military unit declared on Tuesday it had taken power -- an announcement made moments after parliament impeached Rajoelina.

The newly formed National Security Council would "in the coming days" hold its inaugural meeting to work on the plan, Merz told parliament.

The declaration, which is usually issued in times of natural disaster, frees up resources that can be used to help those affected in the county, home to a large number of undocumented migrants and one of the most diverse parts of the United States.

The military leadership under Colonel Michael Randrianirina has promised elections within two years after President Andry Rajoelina was impeached following weeks of popular demonstrations.

The statement from Defence Minister Israel Katz's office came after Hamas handed over the remains of two more deceased hostages, and said it would be unable to retrieve any more bodies from the ruins of Gaza without specialised equipment.

Odinga was the perennial opposition figure of Kenyan politics, running unsuccessfully for the presidency on five occasions, most recently in 2022.

The idea of online marriage is still in its infancy, with Ukraine launching a service last year allowing couples separated by war to tie the knot using its government app.

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by far right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones of the $1.4 billion in damages he has been ordered to pay for falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

In its flagship World Economic Outlook (WEO) report -- compiled before the most recent US-China tariff spat -- the IMF hiked its 2025 global growth forecast to 3.2 percent, up from 3.0 in July, while leaving its prediction for 2026 unchanged at 3.1 percent.

The 51-year-old president had refused growing demands to step down, going into hiding after weeks of anti-government street demonstrations in the island nation.

The top 10 neurological conditions contributing to death and disability include stroke, migraine, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, meningitis, and idiopathic epilepsy, according to the latest numbers, from 2021.

In a statement, the military named two of the victims as Guy Iluz, an Israeli national, and Bipin Joshi, an agriculture student from Nepal.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday hailed the "extraordinary" Gaza ceasefire as bringing hope that US President Donald Trump could broker an end to the Russian invasion of his country.

"They got it from one side, from the other, and you know it would be great if we could make a peace deal with them," Trump said of Iran, a key backer of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, during a speech to Israel's parliament.

In Tel Aviv, a huge crowd which gathered to support hostage families erupted in joy, tears and song as news broke of the first releases, though the pain for the loss of those who had not survived was palpable.

Mokyr, 79, won one half of the prize "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

Republicans and Democrats have been getting into angry confrontations in the corridors of Congress, with frustration mounting as the crisis over funding the government hits public services harder each day.

TotalEnergies was expected to resume this year a massive LNG project near Palma that was halted in early 2021 after a militant strike on the town killed more than 800 people

"The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace," White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung said on X.

ICC judges ruled that Duterte posed a flight risk and could be in a position to influence witnesses if freed, arguing that this outweighed any medical problems suffered by the 80-year-old.

Machado was honoured "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy," said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.

Youth-led demonstrations that began on September 8 over a brief social media ban, economic hardship and corruption quickly escalated into nationwide fury after a deadly crackdown.

The deal will see Hamas free the remaining living hostages in what has been hailed as a significant step towards ending a war that has killed tens of thousands of people and unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe.

The South Asian nation of 170 million people has been in political turmoil since Sheikh Hasina was ousted as prime minister by a student-led revolt in August 2024.

Which made Wednesday's news that the chemist at the University of California, Berkeley was among 2025's class of Nobel winners all the more emotional, Yaghi told journalists as he heralded the US public school system he said he is a product of.

The attacker, identified as Jihad al-Shamie, 35, was shot dead by police within seven minutes of the attack, in which two Jewish people were killed -- one likely by a stray police bullet.

The South Africans; Nkosi Zwelivelile (Mandla) Mandela, Zukiswa Wanner, Reaaz Moola, Dr Fatima Hendricks, Dr Zaheera Soomar, Basheerah Soomar, and Carolyn A. Shelver (Carrie) landed at OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday morning after they were deported from Israel.

On Monday the Nobel Prize for Physiology was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries on how the immune system functions and how autoimmune disease work.

Their discoveries have been decisive for understanding how the immune system functions and why we do not all develop serious autoimmune diseases. The three were honoured "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance", the jury said.

The escalating crisis across the country pits Trump's increasingly militarized anti-crime and migration crackdown against opposition Democrats who accuse him of an authoritarian power grab.

The demonstrations in the usually stable North African kingdom have bucked the perception of young Moroccans as being politically disengaged, and have been organised since last Saturday by GenZ 212, a group active on the web platform Discord.

The diplomatic moves came after the Palestinian militant group Hamas responded positively to US President Donald Trump's roadmap for freeing the captives and administering post-war Gaza.

Hamas agreeing to release the remaining hostages, albeit subject to negotiations and certain conditions being met, will give real hope to the family members in Israel who have been desperate for this kind of news for a very long time.

Machar is a long-standing rival of President Salva Kiir but served as his vice-president under a peace deal that ended their civil war in 2018. He was suspended from his position last month after being charged with treason and accused of ordering an ethnic militia's attack on an army base in March.