More than a year after the death of Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu, his family have won their appeal to have his body buried in South Africa where he died – overturning a high court ruling that allowed the Zambian government to repatriate the corpse. It is not clear whether Tuesday’s ruling at the Supreme…
Geneva — History has repeatedly shown us that women are more likely than men to die during an Ebola outbreak, the chief of humanitarian action of UN Women has said in Geneva. “This is not because the disease is more deadly for women once they are infected,” Sofia Calltorp addressed journalists at a UN press…
The body of an American soldier who went missing while in Morocco for an annual training exercise has been recovered, the U.S. Army announced on Sunday. First Lieutenant Lamont Key Jr. was one of two U.S. service members who disappeared just over a week ago in waters off Morocco’s southern coast, near the Cap Draa…
The Council for Medical Schemes confirmed its ICT platform weaknesses contributed to a decline in its complaint resolution target. (Image source: 123RF) Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health has raised concerns over the systemic ICT infrastructure weaknesses in the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS). This, as it became apparent the entity relies on outdated, 20-year-old IT…
Japanese police arrested a man for allegedly incinerating his dead wife at the zoo where he worked, officials and local media said Friday, following the discovery of human remains. Police arrested Tatsuya Suzuki on Thursday evening on suspicion that he “transported the victim’s body to a tourist facility” in the northern island of Hokkaido and…
Patrice Motsepe, the boss of the Confederation of African Football (Caf), has announced a revamp of the organisation in an attempt to ensure that the scenes at end of January’s Cup of Nations final between Morocco and Senegal do not happen again. The showdown on 18 January at the Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah in Rabat…
The Portuguese cargo ship MSC Maxine is pictured at the Port of Balboa at the entrance to the Panama Canal in Panama City on April 23, 2025. The Port of Balboa is managed by CK Hutchison Holdings, based in Hong Kong. Martin Bernetti | Afp | Getty Images The U.K., the European Union and Singapore…
Videos appearing to show rows of body bags of those killed in Iran have emerged as anti-regime protests across the Islamic Republic stretch into a third week. CBS News partner network the BBC counted around 180 body bags in footage taken outside a morgue in Tehran alone. Other videos posted online show protesters taking to the…
Indonesian rescuers recovered a second body Sunday in the ongoing search for a Spanish soccer coach and two of his children who went missing after a tour boat sank during their Christmas holiday. The rescue team retrieved the body floating near Padar island, about 1.2 miles from the site of the sinking, said Fathur Rahman, the Maumere…
Ashlee Buzzard was arraigned Friday on a charge of first-degree murder with special allegation after the body of her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee, was found in a rural area of Utah more than two months after she went missing. An attorney for Buzzard, 40, of Lompoc, California, said she pleaded not guilty. She was ordered to…
