Arab coalition forces waging a military campaign against Houthi fighters in Yemen seized an Iranian boat loaded with weapons in the Arabian Sea on its way to deliver supplies to the group, the Saudi-led alliance said on Wednesday. The announcement was made a day after tribal fighters backed by the[…]
The Stellenbosch University council has accepted various motions related to transformation at the institution. These include recommendations on its language policy and the pending appointment of two vice-rectors, the university said in a statement on Tuesday. The motions were adopted on Monday. In terms of the language policy, the university[…]
The upward shift in the number of incidents of violent crime in the country is now a trend and not an anomaly, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) said on Tuesday. “We are well into three years of some of the most serious and violent crimes increasing,” the ISS’s Gareth[…]
The Western Cape High Court was on Wednesday expected to deliver judgment in the City of Cape Town’s bid to have Sanral’s decision to toll highways in the province set aside. During the court proceedings, the City told the court that the Minister of Transport at the time, Jeff Radebe,[…]
At least 18 Palestinians were injured on Tuesday as Israeli forces suppressed demonstrations across the occupied West Bank in support of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Twelve Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces suppressed a protest near Ramallah, with three demonstrators reportedly injured by live fire. Demonstrators had marched from the center[…]
Heavy fighting raged inside the key northern Afghan city of Kunduz for a third day early on Wednesday as government forces, backed by U.S. air strikes, battled Taliban insurgents who had scored one of their boldest successes in 14 years of war. Taliban fighters seized control of Kunduz after staging[…]
A US judge has dismissed claims against Saudi Arabia by families of victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks, who accused the country of providing material support to al-Qaeda. US District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan, New York, said Saudi Arabia had sovereign immunity from damage claims by families of[…]
The Palestinians will raise their flag at the United Nations on Wednesday in what president Mahmoud Abbas calls a beacon of hope at a time of growing despair of achieving an independent state. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Abbas will preside over the 15-minute ceremony in the rose garden, to[…]
The South African Hajj and Umrah Council (SAHUC) has stated that the return of 20% of SA’s annual hajj quota has not been confirmed by the Saudi Hajj Ministry, as previously suggested. VOC has been inundated with calls from the community after word of a possible increase of between five[…]
By the time Sheikh Mahmud Barzinji declared himself king of Kurdistan in 1922, over an area that included the city of Sulaimania and its environs, he had already fought dozens of battles; some alongside the British against the Ottomans, others against the British alongside the Arabs, and then several more[…]
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