South Africa's rand edged up against a weaker dollar in early trade on Thursday, after President Cyril Ramaphosa's office confirmed his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump next week following days of speculation.

Two South Los Angeles residents allegedly tried to block and chase immigration officers who were serving a search warrant, according to federal agents who are filing charges against the couple.

When Robert Francis Prevost spoke in Spanish to his crowd of supporters for the first time in St. Peter’s Square last week, Edgewater resident Julio Fernandez said it made him tear up. “I’ve lived in Chicago for many years. And that he is from both places makes me double proud,” Fernandez, 74, a retired doctor from northern Peru, said.

On Wednesday, though, that account started largely ignoring those requests en masse in favor of redirecting the conversation towards the topic of alleged "white genocide" in South Africa and the related song "Kill the Boer.

Donation Options Search Search Search A man was fatally stabbed Wednesday in South Shore. Sun-Times file Share A man was stabbed to death during a fight Wednesday evening in the South Chicago neighborhood.

South Korea will double the deposit insurance limit to 100 million won ($71,174) per client from September, raising the cap for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century to boost confidence in the banking system.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled the state can keep banning abortions around six weeks after conception by agreeing with the earliest interpretation offered of when a heartbeat starts.

An imposter video posing as a news report by South Africa’s public broadcaster falsely states that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has purchased a majority stake in South African mining company Northam Platinum.