South Africa will reprioritise R556.7 million over three years to sustain HIV and AIDS services after the United States withdrew PEPFAR funding, the government said with Wednesday's Medium Term Budget Policy Statement.
Toledo Orders a One-Mile Evacuation and a Three-Mile Shelter-in-Place as a Damaged 5,000-Gallon Chemical Tank Keeps Releasing Glycidyl Methacrylate
Toledo Fire and Rescue ordered everyone within a mile of a Progress Avenue tank terminal to leave and told people within three miles to stay indoors as a compromised 5,000-gallon tank of glycidyl methacrylate kept releasing, the city and U.S. EPA say.
Judge Reyes Refuses to Step Aside in the East Potomac Golf Course Case, Answering the Justice Department's Bias Charge "With the Record"
Judge Ana C. Reyes denied the Justice Department's motion to disqualify her from the East Potomac Golf Course case on Oct. 18, writing that "it is easy to weaponize selective quotations to bring a baseless recusal motion."
South Africa's Treasury gazetted R157 million in severe weather and flood relief for Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and Western Cape, nearly all of the 2026/27 Provincial Disaster Response Grant, leaving R372,000 unallocated.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will launch South Africa's Cabinet-approved Revised White Paper on Local Government on Oct. 22 in Ekurhuleni, replacing the 1998 framework for its 257 municipalities 13 days before the Nov. 4 local elections.
South Africa's annual consumer inflation rose to 4.5% in September from 4.4% in August, Stats SA said Oct. 21, driven by transport prices up 10.8%. The Reserve Bank, which targets 3%, next decides rates on Nov. 19.
The African Union says its new Africa Credit Rating Agency cannot by itself fix the costs of investing in Africa, and has begun designing a De-risking Africa Programme with the APRM, Afreximbank, the AfDB and U.N. agencies.
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Appeals Court Sends Four Indiana Hospitals' Meta Pixel Privacy Suits Back to State Court, Rejecting Their Claim to Be Acting for the Government
The Seventh Circuit ruled Oct. 20 that four Indiana health systems sued over the Meta Pixel on their websites were not "acting under" HHS when they built patient portals, so the privacy suits go back to state court.