Houthi forces pulled back from positions in central Aden after air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition, residents of the southern Yemeni port city said. They said a unit of Houthi and allied fighters, who had advanced in tanks and armoured vehicles through Aden’s Khor Maksar district 24 hours earlier, pulled[…]
Nuclear talks between Iran and its negotiating partners have made “significant progress”, but there is no “final result yet”, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said. The six powers – including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China – “have to examine among themselves the results of[…]
The inaugural World Halal Summit (WHS) kicked off on Wednesday at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC), which has been labeled as a “transformational global halal event” aimed at energizing the halal ecosystem. This year’s event involves six different conferences targeting halal certifiers, scholars and academics and the business community[…]
Masked gunmen have attacked a university in the town of Garissa in northeast Kenya, police said, as ongoing gunfire could be heard from the university premises. Witnesses said explosion and heavy gunfire rocked Garissa University College early on Thursday as the gunmen stormed the complex. Ambulances were seen driving injured[…]
Beirut – Islamic State fighters on Wednesday staged their most significant push yet into the Syrian capital Damascus while Syrian rebels took over the only functioning border outlet with Jordan, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told dpa. Rebels led by the Al Nusra Front took[…]
US police used religion and the Bible to badger a confession out of a South African man accused of murdering four people in the United States, according to court papers. In papers submitted to the Supreme Court of New Mexico, Muziwokuthula Madondo’s lawyers have accused law enforcement officers of ignoring[…]
Johannesburg – Zimbabweans on Wednesday reacted enviously on social media to news that Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan had conceded defeat in the country’s landslide elections. Some Zimbabweans made reference to their own president Robert Mugabe, now 91, who lost the first round of presidential elections in March 2008. Results[…]
Cape Town – Last Friday, the University of Cape Town Senate passed a motion in favour of removing the controversial statue of Cecil John Rhodes currently standing on the universitys upper campus. While the final decision on the monuments status still requires one last sitting of a special council on[…]
Cape Town – Nomsa Vumazonke buys two loaves of bread every day. She lives in Philippi with her three children and four grandchildren, and after making sandwiches for them says there is nothing left for her to eat. “Bread is too expensive. It’s very hard. I have to buy bread[…]
The African National Congress retained nine wards in by-elections held in six provinces, while the Democratic Alliance retained its two wards in the Western Cape, according to results released by the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) on Thursday. By-elections were held on Wednesday in KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape, Mpumalanga, North West,[…]
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