CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS: South African investigators have arrested 12 senior police officers on allegations of corruption and fraud, prosecutors said today.

The arrests come while an inquiry continues into allegations of high-ranking corruption in the South African police.

The inquiry was ordered by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who also suspended the police minister last year.

ESWATINI: A Cambodian man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration’s third country programme was released today to be repatriated after spending five months at a maximum-security prison with other deportees, his lawyer Tin Thanh Nguyen said.

Pheap Rom was deported to the southern African nation in October and held at the Matsapha Correctional Centre.

The US has sent 19 migrants from other countries to Eswatini since July.

POLLUTION REPORT: Pakistan was the world’s most polluted country in 2025, according to a new report released on Tuesday.

The report by IQAir, a Swiss air quality monitoring firm, said

Bangladesh and Tajikistan came in second and third.

Loni, a city in northern India, was identified by the report as the world’s most polluted city last year.

GAS SUPPLY: Hungary will gradually cut off gas supplies to Ukraine until Russian oil deliveries resume through the Druzhba pipeline, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said today.

Russian oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia have been halted for nearly two months after what Ukrainian officials say were Russian drone attacks that damaged the pipeline, which crosses Ukrainian territory.

The leaders of Hungary and Slovakia have accused Ukraine of deliberately holding up Russian deliveries.