The rand began the week at its lowest level in four months as escalating hostilities in the Middle East kept oil prices high, stoking inflation worries ahead of a much-anticipated interest rate decision. At 8.51am, the rand traded at R17.23/US$, down 1.3% from its previous close, at its weakest level sincelate November 2025. A sustained…
From Texas to New England, the monster storm brings hazardous conditions, prompting warnings to stay off roads. Nearly a million customers across the United States are without electricity and more than 10,000 flights have been cancelled as a monster winter storm threatens to paralyse a large part of the country with heavy snowfall and freezing…
Airplanes on the tarmac during a snow storm at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Airlines canceled more than 13,000 U.S. flights this weekend as a massive winter storm swept across the country, bringing heavy snow, ice and sleet, followed…
The South African National Space Agency (Sansa) has warned that geomagnetic storm activity is expected to intensify over the next 24 hours following a powerful solar eruption that sent a cloud of charged plasma towards Earth. According to Sansa’s Space Weather Centre, the disturbance was triggered by a long-duration X1.9-class solar flare that erupted from…
Snow blanketed highways and neighborhoods from Long Island to the Florida Panhandle overnight, turning familiar roads into winter scenes rarely seen that far south and snarling travel across the eastern half of the U.S. during a busy holiday weekend. Flight delays continued to pile up Sunday for thousands of people, foiling Martin Luther King Jr….
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Storm Byron is threatening to heap new miseries on Palestinians in Gaza, with families making distress calls from flooded tents and hundreds of others fleeing their shelters in search of dry ground as the fierce winter storm lashes heavy rains on the besieged territory. Officials warned Wednesday that the storm was forecast to bring flash…
The Gambia will host one of Africa’s largest youth gatherings this December, as over 500 young changemakers, innovators, and leaders from across the continent gear-up for the2025 Youth Impact Summit slated for December 27. The event to be heldat the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center, is said to be one of the largest…
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Three people have died already in Jamaica as it braces for the world’s strongest storm this year – and possibly the strongest on record for the island – with US meteorologists warning of “catastrophic and life-threatening” conditions. With wind speeds of up to 175mph (282km/h), Hurricane Melissa is a category five storm – the maximum…
