A cannabis sin tax could conceivably remove or reduce the perceived need to raise VAT by 0.5 percentage points.

During the first few months of 2025, while the Trump administration was waging all-out war on the natural world, a movement was gaining momentum around a novel form of environmentalism. In New Zealand ...

By sticking to a narrow interpretation of export permit requirements, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George is missing a golden opportunity to end the rampant exploitation of ...

Mmusi Maimane is Leader of Build One South Africa and Chairperson of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations. South Africa’s democratic journey has not been without achievement. Over three ...

According to the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, the advertisement misrepresented the nature of the loan product by implying it was an investment rather than a credit facility.

The Israeli government shared and then deleted a social media post offering condolences over the death of Pope Francis, without saying why, though an Israeli newspaper linked the decision to the late ...

Pope Francis walks in procession on the occasion of the Amazon synod at the Vatican, 7 October 2019. Pope Francis opened a three-week meeting on preserving the rainforest and ministering to its native ...

The reason the market tumbled was because US President Donald Trump did something very few heads of state do these days: he openly criticised the head of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, whom he ...

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

The country faces a public health crisis characterised by a poor supply of affordable medicines and too few pharmacies.

Asian markets show resilience amid Wall St slide and Trump’s Fed criticism. Gold hits record, while oil steadies.

The destruction caused by climate change and conflicts has made it more urgent for us to preserve valuable seeds for our survival in an unpredictable world.