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Egypt on Sunday announced its intention to formally support South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice against Israel, alleging genocide in its war against Hamas in Gaza.

The European Broadcasting Union, Eurovision's organisers, said an estimated audience of more than 160 million people watched this year's final, broadcast live in the?37 participating?countries and online on YouTube.

Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown, has been experiencing water shortages for over a decade. Upgrades to double the output of the town’s water treatment works began in 2015 and were supposed to have been completed two years later. But completion deadlines are still being extended, seven years later.

Police in Tshwane shot and wounded one man and arrested his 10 accomplices believed to be part of the so-called "Facebook Marketplace" gang. Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo says the suspects were arrested on Friday when they were about to rob a man whom they had lured by advertising a truck for sale.

In an unprecedented move, Germany has invited 300 security experts from all nations playing in the tournament to participate in a monitoring project at the International Police Cooperation Centre (IPCC) in the western city of Neuss.

Springbok Women head coach Louis Koen was full of praise for his charges who not only qualified for the 2025 Rugby World Cup.

Truck driver in court this week after drugs worth more than R3m found in his possession,

Israel struck Gaza on Sunday and troops were battling militants in several areas of the Palestinian territory after an Israeli evacuation order sent hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing from Rafah. More than seven months into the Israel-Hamas war, UN chief Antonio Guterres urged "an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, the unconditional release of all hostages and an immediate surge in humanitarian aid" into the besieged Gaza Strip.

Thousands of people been evacuated from border areas in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, as Russia kept up constant strikes on a key town as part of a cross-border offensive, officials said Sunday. The surprise Russian attack across Ukraine's northeastern border began on Friday, with Moscow's troops making small advances in an area from where they had been pushed back nearly two years ago.