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The chair of Third Point Investors Ltd, a London-based investment fund connected to Dan Loeb’s activist group, has stepped down after he received “personal threats” amid an escalating fight with rebel investors. Steve Bates, a former…

One can scarcely imagine the awkwardness at Absa Towers in the Joburg CBD when Sipho Pityana arrives for a board meeting. In essence, he has accused the bank’s former CEO Maria Ramos of kiboshing his chances of becoming chair at Absa by…

Issued on: 16/09/2021 - 16:48 Somalia's president said on Thursday he had withdrawn the executive powers of the prime minister, the latest twist in a feud that has plunged the…

Issued on: 31/08/2021 - 21:42 The choice for the United States in Afghanistan was either to withdraw from the country or escalate the conflict, President Joe Biden said Tuesday in…

Symptoms characterizing RSV infection include runny nose, coughing, sneezing, and fever. ‘Cases of a respiratory virus known as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV are on the rise in the US along with the existing surge of Delta variant…

It took a while for Max Verstappen’s Red Bull to be cleared off the Silverstone track at Sunday’s British Grand Prix, but the fallout from his crash with Lewis Hamilton will linger for the rest of the Formula One season. “It always takes…

Issued on: 08/07/2021 - 05:07 Three rockets were fired at the US embassy in Iraq early Thursday, the Iraqi army said, at the end of a day marked by rocket and drone attacks on bases…

China’s government ordered the country’s leading ride-hailing platform, Didi, removed from app stores for “serious” problems related to the collection and use of customer data, the latest blow by Beijing to the company, which went public on…

Issued on: 13/05/2021 - 16:30Modified: 13/05/2021 - 16:36 Hamas is risking what the UN called “full-scale war” with Israel in order to present itself as the defenders of Palestinian…

Ford would make 1.1m fewer vehicles this year because of the worldwide shortage of semiconductors, the carmaker said on Wednesday, significantly more disruption that previously hoped.The company had earlier forecast it…