By Vumani MkhizeBBC Africa Business, Umthatha
For generations, people in South Africa’s Eastern Cape have made their living growing cannabis. You might expect that as the country moves to legalise t… [read more]
A Polish pop star who said the writers of the Bible had been intoxicated on wine and cannabis has had her conviction for blasphemy overturned. Dorota Rabczewska, known professionally as Doda, was fi… [read more]
A Moscow court has sentenced the WNBA star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison and a 1m rouble fine in a politically charged verdict that could lead to a prisoner swap with the US. Griner, who pl… [read more]
LONDON, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Former U.S. marine Robert Gilman was sentenced to 4-1/2 years in a Russian penal colony on Tuesday for attacking a police officer while drunk, Russian news agencies reported… [read more]
A man has pleaded guilty to murdering his pregnant girlfriend with a pair of scissors in what prosecutors called an exceptionally brutal attack. Ailish Walsh, 28, was pronounced dead after police we… [read more]
When Tim, who is from Michigan, moved to Qingdao, on the coast of Shandong province in China, for a teaching job in 2017, he didnt know anyone there. Within a few weeks, he found a bar that was hosti… [read more]
MADRID, Nov 5 (Reuters) – Spanish police said on Saturday they had seized 32 tonnes of packaged marijuana with a street value of at least 64 million euros ($63.74 million), which they said was the la… [read more]
