The Israeli Supreme Court will hold a hearing on Thursday at 3:30 p.m for the case of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Muhammad al-Qiq, the Palestinian Authority’s Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said Monday. Al-Qiq, a 33-year-old journalist from the occupied West Bank and father of two, has been on hunger strike for[…]
Israeli forces on Monday night ended a military blockade of the occupied West Bank hub of Ramallah, put in place following a shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian Authority police officer on Israeli soldiers in the area. Director of the PA’s military liaison office, Jihad al-Jayyusi, told Ma’an that[…]
Brasilia has warned pregnant women not to take the risk of traveling to the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. Both Brazil and the IOC have welcomed a move by the WHO to declare a health emergency over the Zika virus. As the International Olympic Committee (IOC) welcomed measures taken to[…]
The Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will not be cancelled and the mosquito-borne virus will not affect the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. Speaking in Los Angeles on Monday, IOC President Thomas Bach expressed confidence that there will be good conditions for athletes and spectators at the Rio[…]
South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan met with top business leaders last Friday to discuss steps to boost investor support and avert a credit rating downgrade sparked by SA domestic challenges. About 60 chief executive officers representing industries ranging from banking to mining met with Gordhan for two-and-a-half hours at Nedbank’s offices in[…]
The long-awaited workers’ federation founded by the Numsa and its allies will likely be launched on May 1st this year. The group of unions announced in Johannesburg on Monday that they were considering converting the planned workers summit into a founding meeting of its federation which will be independent and[…]
One of South Africa’s most senior prosecutors, advocate Willie Hofmeyr, has declared war on his latest boss, Shaun Abrahams, accusing him of misleading the court, sidelining him and aligning himself with a “systematic pattern of improperly protecting” his controversial colleague Nomgcobo Jiba. Hofmeyr, who until last year headed the successful[…]
President Jacob Zuma jetted straight into Cape Town after attending the AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to rein in the party’s embattled leadership in the province, announcing that a trio of “interim caretakers” will be deployed to run the party’s affairs. The ANC in the province has been plagued[…]
An Iraqi Kurdish man has been arrested at Athens airport in possession of a passport known to have been among a haul of official documents stolen by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, Greek police said on Monday. The 37-year-old was detained after flying in from the Turkish city of Istanbul[…]
The South African Weather Service has warned again of extremely high fire danger conditions expected in places over the central and eastern interior of the Northern Cape, the extreme western parts of the North West province and the Free State, as well as in the Great Karoo of the Western[…]
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