Iranian President Hassan Rouhani used a major United Nations speech on Saturday to demand an investigation into a crush that killed more than 700 people at the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The fact that Rouhani used a U.N. summit meeting on global development goals to reiterate Iran’s outrage[…]
Pilgrims streamed out of Mina after performing the ritual stoning of the devil for one last time on Saturday. There was no respite from the hot weather and the mercury hovered around 45 degrees Celsius in the afternoon. The pilgrims had poured into the Jamrat Complex since morning to perform the mandatory[…]
Saudi Arabia deployed large numbers of special forces on Saturday on the last day of Haj. Dozens of “special emergency force” troops were seen on one level of the Jamarat Bridge, a five-storey structure in Mina where pilgrims ritually stone the devil. Many more special troops patrolled the network of[…]
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir was apparently plotting and planning a prison break, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) said on Sunday. “The… DCS has thwarted apparent escape plans by inmates, that include Radovan Krejcir, at Zonderwater Correctional Centre, when it raided a number of cells,” said departmental spokesperson Manelisi Wolela[…]
Springbok captain Jean de Villiers has been ruled out of the remainder of the Rugby World Cup after suffering a fracture to his jaw in the pool match against Samoa in Birmingham on Saturday. Heyneke Meyer, coach of the Springboks, described this latest injury to De Villiers as a massive[…]
The City of Cape Town has taken the first step towards declaring “crime hotspots” as disaster zones, amidst what was described as an “ongoing failure of policing”. Mayoral committee member for safety and security JP Smith said Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille had sought legal advice on the matter.[…]
A PetroSA employee was killed when he fell 10 metres at a gas-to-liquid (GTL) refinery in Mossel Bay on Saturday, the parastatal said. The 45-year-old man fell during a planned maintenance operation. “At PetroSA strict adherence to safety is sacrosanct and we therefore wish to quickly get to the bottom[…]
France has carried out its first air strikes in Syria against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. The announcement from President Francois Hollande’s office on Sunday came after a year of hesitation. Hollande had resisted the raids in Syria, saying he did not want to strengthen Syria’s[…]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday said the security measures taken by his country along the border with Gaza were not aimed at “harming” Palestinians. “The measures taken by Egypt to secure its eastern borders are in full coordination with the Palestinian Authority and cannot have the aim of[…]
With Haj 1436 concluded, South Africa can expect the first group of hujjaj to arrive in the country on Monday morning and the larger groups later next week, according to the South African Haj and Umrah Council (Sahuc). 350 pilgrims will arrive on Monday, including groups from Al Anwar Haj[…]
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