#BREAKING South Africa's top court finds ex-president Zuma guilty of contempt of court
#BREAKING South Africa's ex-president Zuma sentenced to "unsuspended" 15-month jail term for contempt
#UPDATE In a historic ruling, South Africa's top court on Tuesday handed the country's former president, Jacob #Zuma, a 15-month jail term for contempt of court after he refused to appear before graft investigators u.afp.com/U6LG
South Africa's embattled ex-president Jacob Zuma, once jailed for fighting the apartheid regime, now faces another 15 months behind bars for shunning a corruption probe into his administration
#BREAKING Russia reports record daily coronavirus deaths since start of pandemic: govt tally
#UPDATE Russia on Tuesday recorded its highest daily #COVID19 death toll since the start of the pandemic, as the country grapples with a spike in infections spurred by the highly contagious Delta variant u.afp.com/U6LP
#BREAKING 151,000 people in Russia hospitalised with Covid-19: health minister
Sixteen of the scheduled 64 first round matches at #Wimbledon were cancelled on Monday as the Grand Slam event's return after two years suffered a soggy start u.afp.com/U6mv#AFPSports
#UPDATE Defending champion Novak #Djokovic overcame an early scare to reach the #Wimbledon second round on Monday with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 win over Britain's 253rd-ranked Jack Draper u.afp.com/U6sb#AFPSports
#BREAKING Third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas knocked out of Wimbledon in first round
#BREAKING Belarus says suspending participation in EU Eastern Partnership
#BREAKING Belarus recalls EU envoy for 'consultations': ministry
#UPDATE#Belarus said Monday it was suspending its participation in the Eastern Partnership, an initiative to strengthen ties between the EU and its ex-Soviet neighbours, after Brussels imposed new #sanctions over the forced landing of a European flight u.afp.com/U6sz
All of Italy becomes a mask-free, "low-risk" zone for coronavirus Monday, marking a dramatic milestone for the first European country to be hit by the pandemic in February 2020
Covid-19 curbs reimposed in Moscow as Asia-Pacific outbreaks flare.
While some countries have brought down infections through rapid vaccinations, outbreaks are still raging from Bangladesh and Indonesia to South America, many fuelled by the Delta variant