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Nine other countries, including France and the UK, also plan to recognise Palestinian statehood next week.Portugal has joined Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom in announcing plans to recognise a Palestinian state.In a statement on Friday, the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the recognition will take place on Sunday, a day before a high-level conference on Palestinian statehood at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that Portugal will recognise the State of Palestine,” the ministry wrote in a statement on its website.“The Official Declaration of Recognition…

Florian Wirtz has a darker side on the pitch that can help him thrive in the Premier League, according to Arne Slot. The German playmaker said recently he was still adapting to the intensity of English football but that the challenge of doing so was one of the key reasons behind his move from Bayer Leverkusen.The 22-year-old is poised for his first taste of a Merseyside derby on Saturday when Everton visit Anfield and it will be an important test of Wirtz’s attributes. He has helped Liverpool start the season perfectly but is yet to contribute a goal or an…

President Trump just made it a lot more expensive for companies to hire foreign workers through the H-1B program. The White House announced Friday that Trump signed a proclamation requiring employers to pay a hefty $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications, an enormous jump from the current $215 lottery registration fee. H-1B visas allow U.S. companies to hire foreign workers in fields that that typically require technical expertise like IT, engineering, mathematics, or medicine. The program is capped at 65,000 new visas annually, plus an additional 20,000 for foreign graduates with advanced degrees from U.S. universities. The visas are…

The sentencing of Sibusiso Zitha to 15 years in prison for the murder of celebrated pastry chef Thembekile Letlape has sparked concern and outrage. Despite Zitha’s guilty plea and remorse, many – including Letlape’s father, ActionSA MP Dr Kgosi Letlape – view the sentence as a grave failure of justice, symbolising the broader systemic issues in South Africa’s fight against gender-based violence. “We are shocked, we are disappointed. Effectively he has walked and she got no justice, her life was not worth it. That’s what women mean in this country. We didn’t get justice today, our child is not coming…

The winner of the 2025 William & Winifred Bowness photography prize – now in its 20th year – is a work by Anna Higgins. Judge Anna Zahalka said: ‘The stand-out work … is a poetic evocation on the Australian landscape, where layers of archival and captured moving images are melded with great sensitivity through her observations of light and atmosphere’

Akisa WanderaBBC Africa, Nairobi andVitalii ChervonenkoBBC Ukrainian, KyivEdith ChesoiWith tears in his eyes, a young Kenyan athlete now captive in Ukraine pleads not to be sent back to Russia.”I will die there,” Evans Kibet says, waving his hands in the air towards the unseen interviewer on the video released on Wednesday by a Ukrainian army brigade.The 36-year-old prisoner-of-war is wearing a red sports top. The brigade’s flag is pinned up behind him.The aspiring long-distance runner says he was tricked into joining the Russian army and is desperate to go home to see his 16-year-old daughter.In a Facebook post accompanying the…

246 The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana has announced a major cut in the benchmark policy rate, slashing it by 350 basis points (3.5 per cent) from 25 per cent to 21.5 per cent. The decision, announced after the 126th MPC meeting, was taken to support the ongoing disinflation process and boost economic activity in the country. Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Johnson Asiama, who addressed journalists at a press conference, said the committee was confident that inflation would continue to ease in the near term. “Given the current state of macroeconomic conditions, the…

After years of battling drug addiction and a series of bizarre court delays, corrupt traffic official Rory Petrus has been sentenced to house arrest and rehabilitation programmes instead of prison. After years of battling drug addiction and a series of bizarre court delays, corrupt traffic official Rory Petrus has been sentenced to house arrest and rehabilitation programmes instead of prison. As he left the dock, Rory Petrus let out a quiet sob as he embraced his mother and other family members waiting for him in the public gallery. Keep up with the latest headlines on WhatsApp | LinkedIn After months…

Fee paid by companies set to transform high-skill work visa system, upon which technology sector relies heavily.Published On 19 Sep 202519 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareUnited States President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation requiring a $100,000 application fee for companies seeking to sponsor workers H-1B visas.Trump signed the proclamation during an event in the Oval Office, while also introducing a separate “gold card” visa for individuals to pay $1 million to expedite their immigration.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAdministration officials said the change to the H1-B programme would assure that companies would only sponsor…

Here are the key events on day 1,304 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 20 Sep 202520 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareHere is how things stand on Saturday, September 20:Regional security Estonian officials say three Russian MiG-31 fighters entered Estonia’s airspace “over the Gulf of Finland” for a total of 12 minutes on Friday and called for NATO talks over the “unprecedented and brazen intrusion”. Moscow denied violating Estonia’s airspace, with the Russian air force claiming its jets flew over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea as they travelled from northwestern Russia to the Baltic exclave of…