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US president Donald Trump’s efforts to derail a successful wrap-up of the G20 summit in Johannesburg failed. Trump boycotted the meeting and the US told other countries through diplomatic channels not to sign a communiqué. Nevertheless, the 19 remaining countries and regional organisations signed a 30-page declaration. This called for,…

“I feel better, but my mind isn’t the same.” Four years after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, such comments are still heard regularly in many medical practices in South Africa. What began as a respiratory virus seems to have left a lingering mark on some people who were infected.

Poorer nations at the Group of 20 summit in South Africa have urged world leaders to address climate action and debt issues affecting the developing world

The Group of 20 summit in South Africa is set to end with another diplomatic spat involving the United States after the host country refused to hand over the rotating presidency of the bloc to what it described as a junior U.S. official

Marco Rubio said Sunday’s talks were “probably best meeting and day we've had so far”

Ireland were reduced to 12 men at one stage of a card-filled clash in Dublin but fought hard against the world champions

Ireland 13-24 South Africa: The Springboks survived a battling performance from the hosts as James Ryan saw red

Ireland, who had five players banished to the sin-bin, ended the autumn with a 24-13 defeat by world champions South Africa

Ireland lose five men to the sin-bin – including one red card – as South Africa’s power game secures Rassie Erasmus’ first win in Dublin.