“We applauded each other’s flags and laughed together.” Additional reporting by Jennifer Park in South Korea.

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The “Progress Pride flag” hangs from the balcony of the White House during a Pride celebration on the South Lawn hosted by President Joe Biden on June 10, 2023. REUTERS The flying of Pride ...

The U.S. State Department has adopted a new policy under the Trump administration that effectively blocks U.S. embassies and outposts from flying Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, a report said ...

Five of South Africa’s best-known companies, MultiChoice, the SABC, Cell C, the SA Post Office, and Stefanutti Stocks, are technically insolvent. A company is technically insolvent when its ...

With South Africa, Ethiopia and Egypt among its members, Brics offers African nations an opportunity to reduce reliance on Western financial systems and explore alternatives like trading in local ...

Kenya will allow citizens of nearly all African countries to visit without needing prior authorisation, according to a new directive by the cabinet. Last year, Kenya introduced a "visa-free ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he was a firm believer in free democracy as he made his first appearance in an impeachment trial on Tuesday (Jan 21) looking into his shocking and brief ...

dressed in his signature dark green T-shirt emblazoned with South Africa’s flag and the name of his organisation, Gift of the Givers. The humanitarian had been invited to Cape Town’s Sea Point ...

A cultural row has reignited in Malaysia after police began an investigation over a giant dragon puppet decorated with the flags of the Southeast Asian country and China at an event organised by a ...

(NEXSTAR) — Flags across the U.S. are meant to be at half-staff for another eight days, but they were at full staff in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Why was the nation’s capital in defiance of a ...