A petition was launched on Friday to have the Western Cape High Court judge in British businessman Shrien Dewani’s trial recused because of her “biased conduct”. The “Justice4Anni” Facebook group, which has almost 23,000 likes, is petitioning Justice Minister Michael Masutha about Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso. The petition called[…]
Taliban insurgents have launched a prolonged attack on a major Afghan army base that was handed over by NATO forces last month, officials said Friday, in another sign the militants are on the offensive as foreign troops leave. Camp Bastion, now know as Shorabak, was Britain’s biggest military base in[…]
France has warned that it would recognise a Palestinian state if a final international effort to overcome the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians failed, and proposed a two-year timeframe to end the conflict through a UN-backed resolution. “If this final effort to reach a negotiated solution fails, then France will[…]
At least four protesters have been killed and scores of others injured in the Egyptian capital as thousands took to the streets of Cairo against the government of President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, heeding to a call by the opposition Salafist Front. The protesters were killed after security forces opened fire[…]
A South African man has appeared in a London court for allegedly using cats to smuggle heroin worth R13 million into the UK, The Star reported on Friday. Scott Parker was accused of hiding the drugs in the bottoms of three cat crates with the animals still inside. The cats[…]
The ANC has welcomed the suspension of EFF MPs from Parliament without salary. “The office of the ANC chief whip [Stone Sizani] welcomes the adoption [on Thursday night] of the report and the recommendations of the powers and privileges committee that conducted a hearing into allegations of misconduct by 20[…]
Trade union Solidarity will approach the Labour Court on Friday to demand the arrests of National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega and Police Minister Nathi Nhleko. The union believes the police have not complied with a court order to redeploy whistleblower Colonel Kobus Roos in a similar position. “This comes after[…]
A United Nations agency declared a state of “emergency” in Gaza City on Thursday, after two days of heavy rains and flooding in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave. “Hundreds of residents in the flooded areas around Sheikh Radwan storm water lagoon have evacuated their homes,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees[…]
Mexico’s president announced plans Thursday to dissolve the country’s corruption-plagued municipal police forces, in a sweeping security reform amid a crisis over the role of gang-linked police in the presumed massacre of 43 students. “Mexico must change,” President Enrique Pena Nieto said in a televised speech, following weeks of protests[…]
Amnesty International condemned Thursday Egypt’s demolition of hundreds of homes and called for a halt to its “unlawful evictions” of residents to create a buffer zone with the Gaza Strip. Egypt started work on the zone at the end of October with the aim of stemming rebels reportedly infiltrating Egypt’s[…]
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