ANC set to lose majority after watershed vote
South Africa's ruling ANC was on course to lose its 30-year-old unchallenged majority on Thursday after voters queued long into the night to cast their ballots, preliminary results and projections showed.
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Four arrested in major international anti-malware sweep
Authorities arrested four people and took down or disrupted more than 100 servers in the "largest ever" operation against botnets that deploy ransomware, Europol said Thursday.
Read moreEuropean stock markets recover slightly
Europe's main stock markets inched higher Thursday, making up just some of the losses from the previous session when shares were hit by concerns that interest rates will stay high for an extended period.
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Red Bull becomes Leeds sponsor and takes minority share in club
Red Bull has purchased a minority stake in Leeds United and will become the English second-tier football club's main shirt sponsor next season, it was announced Thursday.
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Why has Russian wheat been entering the EU duty-free?
Since its invasion of Ukraine, Russia's grain exports have not only been spared by European Union sanctions, but even stayed free of tariffs -- a seeming anomaly the bloc has now agreed to rectify.
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UK parties face-off on TikTok battleground
On the face of it, the villain from "Shrek", British singer turned TV presenter Cilla Black, and national service have nothing in common.
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Markram seeks to build at T20 World Cup on South Africa junior success
Aiden Markram has an advantage no other South African cricket captain has had before -- he led a team to victory in a World Cup.
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One-third of world still criminalises consensual same-sex acts: report
The LGBTQ community faces "relentless opposition" across the globe despite some progress, said a report published on Thursday by an international advocacy group, with one-third of the world still criminalising same-sex acts.
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The Hong Kong activist who kept fighting after husband's arrest
Hong Kong activist Chan Po-ying became one of the city's only pro-democracy voices after her prominent husband's arrest in 2021, refusing to give up the struggle they had waged together for decades.
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Jury starts day two of Trump trial deliberations
Jurors return Thursday to a second day of deliberations in Donald Trump's criminal trial, leaving the Republican presidential candidate and the country waiting for a decision that could upend November's election.
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