With a footprint across 80 countries around the world, Naspers is one of Africa's largest companies. CNN's Isa Soares spoke to the CEO of Naspers South Africa, Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa, about the company's integration of tech and South Africa's investment potential.
President Joe Biden said he has agreed to a deal on infrastructure with a bipartisan group of senators after White House officials and the senators had a massive breakthrough the night before in their infrastructure negotiations. CNN's Manu Raju reports.
Dozens of condominiums in a Surfside, Florida, residential tower were destroyed when part of the building collapsed.
A UK government minister said Britain was prepared to sail naval vessels through disputed waters near Crimea again, a day after a confrontation between a British warship and Russian forces in the Black Sea. CNN's Nic Robertson and Matthew Chance report.
Soweto (South Africa) (AFP) – A 19-car train crosses South Africa providing free healthcare for the poor, equipped with all kinds of gear. Described as a godsend for those lacking access to medical services in the country's poor and rural areas, the train is named Phelophepa, meaning "good, clean health" in the Tswana and Sotho languages.
Mekele (Ethiopia) (AFP) – People wounded in a deadly airstrike in Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray region arrive at Mekele hospital. A regional health officer told AFP at least 64 people had died from the attack with more than 180 injured. The bomb struck a busy market as elsewhere in the country ballot-counting wasunderway following national elections.
Residents of Gibraltar are voting on whether to ease its abortion law in a referendum. Campaigning has been fierce in this normally closely-knit British enclave at the southernmost tip of Spain, which is home to some 32,000 people.
Surfside (United States) (AFP) – Video footage taken by a local resident shows a large portion of a 12-story building in the town of Surfside — just north of Miami Beach — reduced to rubble, with the apartments' interiors exposed, sparking a major emergency response.
England's Jordan Henderson has spoken about the history of facing Germany as the Three Lions prepare to take on Germany in the round of 16 of Euro 2020.
MTN Nigeria's CEO Karl Toriola says the telecoms player is looking to sell 14 per cent of its shares in Nigerian retail investors in the short to medium term.
John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who'd had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. CNN's Al Goodman reports.
Emergency operations were underway after at least one person died in the partial collapse of a multistory residential building in the Surfside neighbourhood in Miami on Thursday. There are currently around 80 units of the Miami-Dade rescue crews on site.
