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A Swiss woman and an Austrian woman kidnapped in Niger more than a year and a half ago have been freed and arrived in Benghazi, Libya, officials say. Read More: https://punchng.com/swiss-austrian-women-freed-after-niger-kidnap-ordeal/

The Swiss government told the BBC that the freed national was on her way back to Switzerland.

A Gauteng high court order has reopened the R12-million State Security Agency Project Mayibuye trial, granting public and media access while protecting intelligence secrets.

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An Austrian woman and a Swiss woman kidnapped in Niger have been freed after 18 months in captivity, local reports say.

The former reality television star makes a fresh bid for freedom after he was denied bail earlier this month over domestic violence allegations.

In an interview with CBS News after Stephen Hubbard was released from Russian custody, his son, Fr. Joseph Coleman, said his father might have made a mistake in staying in Ukraine when the war began.

Enes Kanter Freedom was denied entry to Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, according to a video he posted to social media, after he refused to sit in a private suite arranged for him by the Dream and State Farm Arena in response to his safety concerns.

South Korean director Hur Jin-ho thanked the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) for defending freedom of expression as his political thriller “The Assassin(s)” opened the festival’s 37th edition on Wednesday, two weeks after the Korea’s conservative opposition asked SGIFF to pull it. “I am truly grateful to the film festival for protecting artisti

Russia has released a jailed US prisoner as Donald Trump's special envoy meets Vladimir Putin.

The Lieutenant-Governor said the Government of India’s commitment to strengthening peace and progress in Jammu and Kashmir

Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were accused of breaking into an unauthorised protest venue in Delhi.

Hubbard, 74, who lived in eastern Ukraine, was detained in 2022 after Russia’s full-scale invasion and was later convicted of serving as a mercenary.

The State Security Agency wants the media and public banned from attending and reporting on the trial of former intelligence officials Thulani “Silence” Dlomo and Patrick Mshothola, claiming that it could expose intelligence sources, operational methods and classified information. Media organisations are fighting for access.

The 74-year-old former teacher, who was captured, has been released without any "swap" required, Trump says.

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One of the attachments to the bundle of papers former president Thabo Mbeki submitted to the Khampepe Commission of inquiry into delayed post-TRC prosecutions was a sound clip of a speech broadcast on the ANC’s Radio Freedom on the eve of the burial of the murdered ‘Cradock Four’, Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkonto and Sicelo Mhlauli.

Destined for Mars and beyond, NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom will be humanity’s first fission-powered spacecraft to travel outside Earth’s orbit. Announced during NASA’s “Ignition” event, this mission will demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion in deep space, and progress is underway on its key element: the nuclear power module. To expedite developme