Video footage taken at Groote Schuur’s maternity ward is being studied after a 13-day-old baby was kidnapped from the Cape Town hospital. The little boy was asleep in his cot next to his mother’s bed when he was taken. A nurse woke up the mother at 2:45am to ask her[…]
A search continued on Thursday for a 22-year-old man who went missing while swimming at Far Eastern Beach along the False Bay coast, the NSRI said. “A police dive unit will continue in an ongoing search operation for the missing man who is feared to have drowned,” National Sea Rescue[…]
A seven-year-old boy has drowned in the Boknes Lagoon, outside Port Alfred, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Thursday. “At 10.10am…[an NSRI] crew were alerted by a frantic father reporting his child missing,” spokesman Craig Lambinon said. “The father reported that he was racing to the beach from his[…]
The family of jailed Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste have applied to have him deported from Egypt, describing it as their “best option” after a court ordered a retrial for him and two of his colleagues. Greste, along with colleagues Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed, has been imprisoned[…]
The number of injured from the Shanghai New Year’s Eve crush increased to 49, with 36 people dead, after city police said they underestimated the size of the crowd, news reports said Friday. “Police failed to expect the number of people for this event,” Shanghai’s Huangpu branch police deputy commander[…]
Intense exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Indian border forces continued for a third day, officials said Friday, after three soldiers were killed on New Year’s Eve. Indian troops fired mortar shells and guns at Pakistani villages in Narowal district of central Punjab province, a military official said. Several hundred[…]
A sea rescue station in Richards Bay was damaged by distress flares fired by New Year’s revellers, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Thursday. On New Year’s eve, NSRI Richards Bay crew were at the station when, as midnight struck, revellers fired dozens of red distress flares in celebration,[…]
Four children were given medical treatment after they nearly drowned in three separate incidents at Camps Bay beach on New Year’s day, the NSRI said. Just before 11am, a four-year-old girl was rescued by a member of the public after she nearly drowned in the tidal pool, National Sea Rescue[…]
Searchers were racing “against time and weather” Thursday to recover the dead from the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501, with a window of good conditions slammed shut by another onslaught of wind and heavy rain. Seven bodies have been recovered from the jet, which crashed into the Java Sea on[…]
Afghan national security forces took over full responsibility for the country’s security Thursday, as NATO-led coalition forces ended their 13-year-old active combat mission and started a new phase providing training, advice, and assistance. “I congratulate Afghans for this historic day,” said President Ashraf Ghani while marking the transition. “We will[…]
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