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Temba Bavuma leads a 15-member squad of South Africa for the upcoming ICC World Test Championship (WTC) 2025 Final against Australia in June, as per the ICC website.South Africa’s squad for the World Test Championship final has been further strengthened by the return of speedster Lungi Ngidi, who missed out on the home summer assignments due to a groin injury. The pacer, who has since fully recovered, has featured for South Africa in white-ball cricket earlier in 2025, and also featured in global T20 leagues.
In a huge blow to India’s hopes of pulling off a series leveling victory after their five wicket defeat at Headingley , Jasprit Bumrah is likely to miss the second Test against England that is set to get underway next week at Birmingham’s Edgbaston.Jasprit Bumrah wasn’t expected to play all five Tests in England anyway due to concerns over his workload after his recent back injury, with head coach Gautam Gambhir having recently confirmed that the star pacer would stick to the plan of playing a maximum of three Tests.
Jamaica will ask King Charles to request legal advice from the London-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth nations, on the issue of slavery reparations.Under the Judicial Committee Act of 1833, Charles, who remains Jamaica’s head of state after the country gained independence from Britain in 1962, has the authority to refer matters to the council for consideration.Hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans were shipped to Jamaica, and many scholars and advocates say the legacy of that period has resulted in or played a role in today’s inequities.Calls…
Stones and debris still littered the streets in the center of Kenya’s capital on Thursday, as a leading human rights group said the death toll from nationwide protests a day earlier had climbed to 16.Thousands of people turned out across Kenya on Wednesday to protest government corruption and police brutality, many waving Kenyan flags and chanting that President William Ruto “must go.” The demonstrators clashed with security forces, who fired live rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas.Irũngũ Houghton, the executive director of Amnesty Kenya, said on Thursday that the death toll had risen overnight to 16 — most of whom,…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) said a “big” trade deal with India could be on the cards, days after signing a new agreement with China.Speaking at the “Big Beautiful Bill” event at the White House, Trump said the US was “going to open up India,” hinting at significant progress toward a long-awaited bilateral trade agreement between the two strategic partners.
Omead Afshar, a powerful executive at Tesla Inc. and one of Elon Musk’s closest confidants, has left the company, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest high-level departure during a volatile period for the electric vehicle maker.News of the exit has circulated internally among some employees in recent days, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing internal information. Afshar’s name no longer appeared to show up in an internal directory, two of the people said. The reason for the change and his future plans weren’t immediately clear.Some of the directors who reported to Afshar now…
North Korea has officially opened the long-delayed Wonsan Kalma coastal resort, a project leader Kim Jong Un hopes will boost domestic tourism and eventually attract international visitors, according to state media KCNA. The resort, six years behind schedule, is set to welcome North Korean tourists beginning 1 July, though no timeline has been confirmed for opening it to foreigners.Spanning a 4-km (2.5-mile) stretch of the east coast, the resort reportedly includes hotels, restaurants, a shopping complex, and a water park, and claims to accommodate up to 20,000 visitors — none of which has been independently verified.Kim, who spent part of his…
US President Donald Trump accused Democrats of leaking classified details about the US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites. In a Truth Social post, he claimed: “The Democrats are the ones who leaked the information on the PERFECT FLIGHT to the Nuclear Sites in Iran. They should be prosecuted!”Trump’s remarks came after a closed-door Senate intelligence briefing which had already drawn scrutiny after being postponed earlier in the week. The session, eventually held on Thursday, failed to provide a unified view on the effectiveness of the strikes.The briefing was conducted by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense…
Iran Israel War News: In a first since the recent escalation in tensions, Israel’s Defence Minister Thursday said its military was actively planning to “eliminate” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei but did not go through with it as the “opportunity never presented itself”.“If he had been in our sights, we would have taken him out,” Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz was quoted as saying by Times of Israel in his interviews with three major Israeli television news programmes — Channel 13, Kan and Channel 12. He was speaking days after the US-backed Israel-Iran ceasefire came into effect following the 12-day conflict.Katz also…
India US Tariffs News Update: As Indian trade negotiators landed in the US on Friday for the final round of in-person talks before the July 9 deadline for the reciprocal tariff pause runs out, American President Donald Trump said that the US and India “may” sign a trade deal, under which the country would “open up”.“Everybody wants to make a deal and have a part of it… we just signed with China yesterday. We are having some great deals. We have one coming up, maybe with India. A very big one. Where we’re going to open up India. In the…