Daily Maverick Headlines Today

WHAT’S COOKING: Prawns and Portuguese rice (plus: biltong soup)

Pop Mart and Sony team up for Labubu film to expand viral toy's reach

European airlines look to shake off green agenda as fuel prices soar

HSBC weighs deep job cuts as AI overhaul unfolds, Bloomberg News reports

First Iranian attack to kill Palestinians hits West Bank, three women dead

TRUMPED UP REALITY: Maga dreams to ICE reality as Viljoens flip US script — with Trump’s ‘help’

POLICING IN CRISIS: Mkhwanazi tries to nail Shadrack Sibiya as ad hoc committee wraps up hearings

ANALYSIS: Russia’s failed influence campaign casts pall over Mbalula’s presidential run

ORGANISED CRIME: Fugitive gym trainer Stamenov fraudulently obtained SA permanent residence permit, court hears

DIRE STRAITS: Iran war, looming El Niño herald misery for Sarb's inflation target

READERS’ QUESTIONS: Iran war — Daily Maverick writers answer your questions

BIRD OF PASSAGE: Weaving his magic - you won’t believe how this feathered Romeo wooed a Juliet

THE INTERVIEW: Soldiers don’t take direct orders from cops in SANDF deployment to crime hotspots — Holomisa

LIV LARGE: LIV Golf’s South African debut harks back to the Sun City heyday

LEAP OF FAITH: Long jumper Luvo Manyonga returns to international stage after addiction battle

IN PICTURES: Pope Leo XIV blesses a child while greeting cheering crowds from his popemobile

ISS TODAY: SA needs stronger partnerships, not promises, to curb gender-based violence

DIGITAL REMEDIES OP-ED: The accessibility gap: How poor publishing practices undermine African legal systems

SOLE MATES: ‘I found my husband through running’ — the Joburg running clubs building community

Indonesia arrests four military officers allegedly involved in acid attack on activist

Kremlin condemns US-Israeli 'murder' of Iran’s leaders after Ali Larijani killing

Child vaccination rate drops sharply in Michigan as RFK Jr influences policy

King Charles to welcome Nigerian president to UK for state visit

VIDEO: Watch - The wheeling and dealing behind South Africa’s AI factories

BOOTED RETROSPECTIVELY: Morocco win Afcon in the boardroom after Senegal stripped of title

SPOTLIGHT: Leslie London’s long view on how structural violence poisons bodies and societies

Chinese authorities approve Nvidia's H200 AI chip sales, source says

Top US security official quits, says Iran did not pose immediate threat

AD HOC COMMITTEE: Ramaphosa effectively blocks IGI from testifying on criminal claims against top cops Masemola, Khumalo

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS: No ambassador, no problem — SA’s unorthodox approach to the US

BIOSECURITY: Vaccination delays expose inefficiencies in SA’s FMD response system

PATIENT CARE: National Health Laboratory Service system out of action, causing ‘massive disruptions’ to health facilities

CYBERSECURITY: Gauteng was lucky with latest 3.8TB data breach, but the luck will run out

Trump says NATO's refusal to help on Iran is "very foolish mistake"

BUSINESS REFLECTION: After the Bell: Is this the moment to drill, baby, drill?

YouTube, FIFA reach World Cup live broadcast deal

EDUCATION: Reading lifeline for Eastern Cape schools, but SA’s literacy crisis runs deep

RETAIL SECTOR: Woolworths bets in2food can unlock offshore growth where David Jones could not

CONSERVATION CLASH: Scientists challenge shark-net plan at Club Med’s huge Tinley Manor resort

STRATEGIC SHIFT: From life office to bank app, here’s why insurers want your main account

US MIDTERMS ANALYSIS: The Iranian election and what it means for Trump’s Republicans

PROPERTY STANDOFF: Grogro land price talks continue amid ongoing electricity dispute in Nelson Mandela Bay

DRY TAPS: Two months without water: Tiryville crisis triggers rights probe

WATER WOES: Drought or dysfunction: What's really driving Nelson Mandela Bay’s water crisis?

MAKING A SPLASH: How Bishops rose from contenders to kings of schoolboy water polo

Iraq in talks with Iran to safeguard oil tanker traffic through Hormuz

Pollution from Russian strike on Ukraine hydro plant cuts water to Moldovan city

UN report says Israeli airstrike on Iran prison is a war crime

Israel's Katz says Iran's security chief killed, Tehran strikes Gulf neighbours

Fed on crumbs

OUR CITY NEWS: Meet the Joburg team saving lives, one pothole at a time

OUR CITY NEWS: The hole story: The facts and figures of Joburg’s pothole problem

ANALYSIS: How the SANDF’s crime-fighting role could threaten state legitimacy