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Khanyisile Ngcobo BBC News, Johannesburg Getty Images The tussle between Starlink boss Elon Musk and South Africa over the company’s failure to launch in the country stems from the nation’s black empowerment laws, and could be one factor behind the diplomatic row between the US and Africa’s most industrialised nation….

Former US President Joe Biden has used his first speech since leaving the White House to attack the work of his successor, Donald Trump. Speaking at a conference in Chicago, Biden said Trump has “done so much damage and so much destruction” in his first days in office. Check out…

Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi Getty Images Sonia and Rahul Gandhi have been accused of laundering millions of dollars – charges they have strongly denied India’s opposition Congress party has said it will organise nationwide protests on Wednesday after the country’s financial crimes agency charged senior leaders Sonia and Rahul…

An American pastor who was kidnapped by armed men during a church service in South Africa last week has been rescued following a “high-intensity shoot-out” that left three people dead, authorities say. Josh Sullivan was found unharmed in the township in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday evening –…

Joe Biden has used his first speech since leaving office to criticise the Trump administration’s welfare policies. The ex-US president told a conference in Chicago that the government had “taken a hatchet” to Social Security, a system which Donald Trump and Elon Musk – who is leading the White House’s…

A town hall hosted by Republican Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene in Cobb County, Georgia, was repeatedly disrupted by protesters on Tuesday evening. Footage shows police removing three people within minutes of Greene taking the stage, with officers tasering one man inside the venue. About six people were removed from the…

A Swiss and Austrian climbing pair have shattered the speed record for completing the daunting north faces of a famed trio of Swiss mountains – the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. Switzerland’s Nicolas Hojac and Austria’s Philipp Brugger shaved nearly ten hours off the previous record set more than two decades…

Pedestrian crossings in several areas of northern California have been hacked with fake greetings mocking the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Officials in Silicon Valley are investigating and have disabled the audio feature on the crossings which usually plays instructions to “walk” or “wait”. The surprise message were…

Watch: Mostafa, Hafiza and Manahel film as their home, el-Fasher, comes under attack Sudan’s paramilitaries have declared the formation of a rival government to the country’s armed forces, two years into a war that has become the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. The leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed…

Microchip maker Nvidia said it would be hit with $5.5bn (£4.2bn) in costs after the US government tightened export rules to China. The chip manufacturing giant, which has been at the heart of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, will require licences to export its H20 AI chip to China, which…