Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that he was discussing with Jordan plans to resubmit to the United Nations Security Council a resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state that failed to win enough votes last week. Palestinian officials hope the UN will be more sympathetic to their[…]
Two activists from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have been shot dead in clashes with ruling party supporters after their leader called for protests on the first anniversary of elections her party boycotted, police said. Monday’s clashes came as BNP’s leader Khaleda Zia remains confined to her office in[…]
The union representing 11 public works department employees facing a disciplinary hearing over the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead says the group will not plead guilty, The Sunday Independent reported. “Our members are determined to let the internal disciplinary hearings go ahead. They do not fear anything at[…]
The first report detailing alleged cheating during the matriculation exams at 69 examination centres across the country is expected at the end of January, Umalusi said on Sunday. “At the end of this month, we should be receiving the first formal report,” said Umalusi spokesman Lucky Ditaunyane. He said that[…]
The SA Communist Party (SACP) said on Sunday it supported the decision by the basic education department to not publish the names of matriculants in newspapers. “The SACP hopes that the decision by the basic education department represents the starting point towards individual learners’ results not being published in newspapers[…]
Zero visibility prevented Indonesian Navy divers Sunday from reaching large objects believed to be parts of an AirAsia plane that crashed with 162 people last week, the search chief said. Rescue officials said Saturday that ships equipped with sonar technology had detected four large objects they hoped were parts of[…]
Pakistan’s army says its warplanes have killed 31 radicals as part of an ongoing operation in a troubled tribal region near the Afghan border. An army statement says the airstrikes on Friday evening in the Tirrah valley of the Khyber region destroyed four rebel hideouts and a suicide bomber training[…]
North Korea issued a furious statement Sunday slamming the United States for imposing sanctions against government officials and the defense industry for a cyberattack on Sony. It again denied any role in the breach of tens of thousands of confidential Sony emails and business files. An unnamed spokesman of North[…]
VOC once again received calls from a few mu’tamireen and their families who frantically shared their concerns after not receiving any update on their travel arrangements a day before they were expected to depart on umrah. According to a relative of a respective mu’tamireen, who wished to remain anonymous, the[…]
The body of an 11-year-old Richtersveld Primary student being found in the backyard of someone known to her family is a lesson for police in dealing with missing children. This is according to Atlantis ward councillor Barbara Ras, who aided in the search for the pre-teen who went missing on[…]
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