A teenage boy has been pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-storey Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when a powerful earthquake shook Nepal. News of the rescue came on Thursday as the first supplies of food aid began reaching remote, earthquake-shattered mountain villages[…]
A court in Pakistan Thursday sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment for attempting to kill Nobel-prize winning teenage activist Malala Yousafzai in 2012, officials said, though the chief suspect remains at large. Pakistani Taleban militants boarded the teenager’s school bus and shot her in the head in October 2012 for[…]
The UN’s new Middle East peace envoy on Thursday urged Palestinian factions to unite and Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, on his first visit to the territory. “I strongly believe that it will hurt the cause of the Palestinian people if division, if the lack of[…]
Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa will address the National Development Plan (NDP) at the first ever Muslim Civil Society Conference next month. The Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute (ASRI) is embarking on an initiative to activate Muslim civil society on domestic policy issues and together with other civil society groups to collectively[…]
Ninety-five percent of a project to expand the circumambulation area around the Holy Kaaba (Mataf) has been completed, thanks to 30 months of non-stop work ordered by the late Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. Work is proceeding according to schedule for the third phase of the scheme,[…]
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was accused in Parliament on Wednesday of working hand in glove with the DA. Madonsela spent more than three hours dodging insults and attacks from ANC MPs and the chairperson of the parliamentary committee on justice during her appearance in Parliament. DA, ACDP and EFF MPs[…]
Eskom has reached payment agreements with 10 out of 20 defaulting municipalities, after the supplier issued threats that it would begin power cuts in June. “The bulk electricity supplies of municipalities that have entered into a payment agreement with Eskom will not be interrupted,” Eskom said in a statement sent[…]
The train crash that left one person dead and over 200 injured in Denver, Johannesburg, could have been a result of negligence, the Portfolio Committee on Transport said on Wednesday. “The preliminary investigations points to recklessness on the part of the driver,” committee chairperson Dikeledi Magadzi said in a statement.[…]
The High Court in Pretoria is expected to rule on Thursday on whether a terminally ill man can get a doctor’s help to commit suicide. Robin Stransham-Ford, 65, a former advocate, was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in September 2013. “What must he do, get on top of a building[…]
Iran proposed Wednesday to hold UN talks on ending the conflict in Yemen at a neutral venue, pointing to the success of the talks on Afghanistan held in Germany in 2001. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was part of a coalition of Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia that[…]
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