9 h. ago Strictly’s Johannes Radebe to make West End debut as Kinky Boots’ drag queen

The South African dancer will play drag queen Lola in the award-winning musical at London Coliseum next year.

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9 h. ago Top South African official accuses police minister of colluding with crime syndicates

A South African security official has accused top police leaders of colluding with crime syndicates

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24 h. ago Wimbledon forced to apologise after crucial AI line judge blunder against Sonay Kartal's opponent...with system accidentally turned OFF mid

JAMES SHARPE: Pavlyuchenkova accused officials of pro-Brit bias and claimed a game was 'stolen' from her during their match on Centre Court when Kartal hit a ball clearly long.

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31 h. ago A beer pioneer, South Africa's first Black female brewery owner trains a new generation

South Africa’s first Black female beer brewery owner is aiming to shake up the industry

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55 h. ago Voices: Could Nigel Farage do worse as prime minister? You better believe it

We ought to take Reform seriously as a possible party of government – and Nigel Farage as a possible PM – so let’s give his ideas the scrutiny they deserve, writes John Rentoul

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56 h. ago Fresh scandal hits Spain’s ruling party as official quits over sexual harassment claims

Pressure grows on Pedro Sánchez to call snap election as latest resignation adds to corruption allegationsPedro Sánchez’s efforts to reset Spain’s ruling socialist party after damaging corruption allegations that threatened to topple his coalition government have suffered a severe setback after a party official resigned over accusations of sexual harassment.The prime minister had hoped this weekend’s meeting of the federal committee of his Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) would help the party move past weeks of scandals that have undermined the ethical and anti-corruption pledges on which it came to power seven years ago. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Our wine expert reveals her pick of the best South African summer wines

Charlotte's South African stunners

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer must improve or Nigel Farage will be the next Prime Minister

Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says Keir Starmer must learn from the failures of strategy and policy if he is to thrive as Prime Minister.

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4 d. ago Austria deports man with criminal conviction to Syria for first time since fall of Assad

The 32-year-old was granted asylum in 2014, but lost his refugee status because of his recordAustria has returned a Syrian with a criminal conviction to his birth country in what it described as the first such deportation since the fall of the Assad regime.“The deportation carried out today is part of a strict and thus fair asylum policy,” Austria’s interior minister, Gerhard Karner, said in a statement. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The Guardian view on Labour’s welfare rebellion: Starmer must learn from his mistakes | Editorial

A poorly devised cuts policy was mis-sold as reform and MPs were dismissed when they pointed out the problemA clash between the government and Labour MPs over disability benefits was foreseeable long before this week’s Commons rebellion. That doesn’t mean a crisis was inevitable. Compromise might have been reached before the 11th-hour climbdown that averted a defeat in parliament.The conflagration that burned a lot of Sir Keir Starmer’s authority was all the greater because trust had broken down. The twin causes were failure of political judgment in Downing Street and bad policy. The prime minister underestimated the potency of MPs’ objections to the withdrawal of personal independence payment (Pip) from disabled people, and overestimated the capacity of his whips to bully and cajole his party into accepting the changes.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to...

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5 d. ago John Swinney urged not to drop Scotland's ban on cash for weapons in face of Russia threat

The First Minister said he could 'reconsider' the SNP's longstanding policy against directly funding munitions amid the threat from Putin.

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6 d. ago How Labour welfare vote rebellion compares to previous revolts by MPs

Keir Starmer has suffered a blow inflicted by his own Labour MPs, but how does it stack up against previous votes under other prime ministers, including Tony Blair’s controversial policies on university tuition fees and the Iraq war?

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6 d. ago Trump 'will take a look deporting Elon Musk' after huge beautiful bill row

The spat between Trump and car salesman Elon Musk has taken another dramatic turn after the South African threatened to launch a rival political party if the Orang Manbaby's Big Beautiful Bill passes

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7 d. ago Lesotho activist arrested after video on unemployment rates angers prime minister

Tšolo Thakeli had long campaigned on youth joblessness, but a post questioning Sam Maketane’s promises on work creation landed him in prisonIt took a single video complaining about Lesotho’s unemployment rate to turn Tšolo Thakeli into the prime minister’s enemy. Within a day of posting there were armed police at his door.It was Father’s Day, and the 31-year-old father of two was in his pyjamas when they arrived. He had no idea his post would land him in trouble; after all, he had campaigned for a long time, under different governments, for action on jobs for young people. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Cannabis bigger danger than heroin and must be changed to class A drug, top cops say

Fourteen top cops have written to the policing minister Diane Johnson calling for weed to be upgraded which could land suppliers in jail for life

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8 d. ago Cannabis 'is worse for our society than heroin,' police tsars say

More than a quarter of police and crime commissioners have written to the policing minister calling for cannabis to be upgraded to a class A substance.

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1 week ago Brazilian tourist found dead in Indonesia volcano could have been saved, says family

Family accuse rescue officials of ‘great negligence’ in efforts to reach Juliana Marins, whose body was recovered after four days

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1 week ago Swinney says sorry to Gypsy Travellers for ‘trauma’ of the ‘tinker experiment’

Scottish First Minister John Swinney made clear the policies, pursued between 1940 and 1980, were ‘wrong’.

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1 week ago Man charged in bombing of Palm Springs fertility clinic dies in prison

Daniel Park, 32, was accused of supplying chemicals to the bomber, Guy Edward Barktus, who died in May explosionA man charged with aiding the bomber of a fertility clinic in California has died in federal custody just weeks after his arrest, prison officials said on Tuesday.Daniel Park, 32, was accused of supplying chemicals to the bomber, Guy Edward Bartkus of California, who died in the 17 May explosion. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Chelsea fans accuse club of 'exploiting loyalty' as Premier League make contact

Chelsea have increased ticket prices by an average of 17 per cent in the last two seasons and the club's official supporters' group have vented their fury at the ownership, accusing them of alienating the core fanbase

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