
Navi Pillay, 85, Wins Nobel Peace Prize as Committee Defends International Law
The former U.N. human rights chief and International Criminal Court judge was honored on the prize's 125th anniversary, as Washington sanctions ICC officials.
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11 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 9, 2026.

The former U.N. human rights chief and International Criminal Court judge was honored on the prize's 125th anniversary, as Washington sanctions ICC officials.
Gunmen with AK-47s killed 17 at a tavern southwest of Johannesburg on Saturday; hours later, 10 died at a restaurant outside Cape Town. Nearly 40 people have been killed in mass shootings this week.
A State Department notice to Congress says the fiscal 2027 refugee slots will go 'primarily' to Afrikaners, at a projected cost of $500 million, while the program stays shut to most other refugees.

The State Department has already admitted more than 7,700 white Afrikaners as refugees while shutting the program to almost everyone else. South Africa's foreign minister blamed 'fringe groups' for misrepresenting the country's laws to Washington.

A crackdown on undocumented migration and a wave of anti-immigrant protests built around a June 30 'deadline' have produced one of the largest sudden migrant exoduses the continent's richest economy has seen.

The Bafana Bafana and Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder was found dead at a Cape Town home on Saturday. Police have opened an inquest, and no cause of death has been released.

A vigilante movement has ordered all undocumented immigrants out of the country by month's end. At least five Mozambicans have been killed, and more than 3,000 Malawians are sheltering in an open field outside Durban.

Deep inside South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave, researchers found scorched bone in deposits up to 1.79 million years old — among the oldest evidence of hominin fire use ever documented.

Health workers in South Africa and Mozambique describe shuttered programs and rationed medicine after a U.S. stop-work order. One model projects 565,000 new HIV infections over a decade.

About 300 Ghanaians flew home on the first voluntary repatriation flight; officials say roughly 90% were undocumented, and Nigeria says it may evacuate its citizens too.

President argues "emergency refugee situation" merits bringing more Afrikaners to America as administration reshapes immigration priorities.