An “infrasonic weapon” caused the collapse of a church’s guest house in Lagos where 81 South Africans were killed last year. That’s according to an academic paper published this month. Its author, Paul Biedomo Iguniwei, claims the building absorbed “high energy infrasound”, which caused its atoms to resonate. Eighty-one South[…]
Questions remained on Tuesday whether Mahmoud Abbas is planning to step down as Palestinian president in the coming months, with PLO officials strongly denying the claims, while sources close to the embattled president did not deny the possibility. On Sunday, Israel’s Channel 1 cited unnamed Palestinian Authority sources as saying[…]
Pakistani police killed the leader of the sectarian group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, his two sons and 11 others on Wednesday in a shootout after gunmen attacked a police convoy and freed him as he was being moved, police said. Malik Ishaq was on a U.S. list of radicals and the group he[…]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday it was impossible to continue a peace process with Kurdish fighters and urged parliament to strip politicians with links to them of immunity from prosecution. Hours after he spoke, the Turkish military said its F-16 fighter jets had bombed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)[…]
Israeli authorities have taken control of illegal homes being built in the occupied West Bank, prompting clashes between Jewish settlers and Israeli border police. Tuesday’s protest was staged against the demolition of the so-called Dreinoff buildings, which were built on private Palestinian land that was seized by the Israeli army[…]
With less than two months before Haj 1436 kicks off, the South African Haj and Umrah Council (Sahuc) has called on local pilgrims to adequately prepare for the rigours of the journey ahead. Around 2000 South African hujaaj are expected to complete the highly spiritual pilgrimage this year, forming part[…]
An influx of new claimants in the District Six restitution process has necessitated the need for a redress of the area’s redevelopment. With the claims process having reopened in July 2014, more than 5000 new applicants have since registered for restitution in the area. This prompted the District Six Working[…]
The Davids family finally received their land in Lotus River as part of the City of Cape Town’s restitution process. It’s been fifty years since the Davids family was dispossessed of their land which was taken from the late Doud and Garaniesa Davids, under the apartheid regime. On Tuesday, the[…]
The Western Cape provincial government is planning to set up a Halaal agri-processing food park which could see the province becoming a major supplier to North African and Middle Eastern countries, where around 20% of the world’s Muslim population reside. The fast growing global Halaal market is worth $2.3 trillion.[…]
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir has claimed there was a conspiracy against him that went as high as national police commissioner General Riah Phiyega. This emerged in his bail hearing for the murder of Sam Issa in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. “I believe it’s an instruction from Riah Phiyega,[…]
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