“I wrote this film to combat Islamophobia. I wanted to tell it from a Muslim perspective and reveal what we believe is really going in on behind closed doors. Who is really behind Islamophobia? Because it’s not Muslims!” These are the words of US comedian Omar Regan, as he speaks[…]
The United Nations said fighting around SSyria’s capital has cut off 300,000 people from humanitarian assistance and pauses in the conflict are needed to allow aid convoys to get to the area. Fighting in and around Damascus has intensified in recent days after surprise attacks by rebel fighters in the[…]
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are expected on Friday to unveil the first compensation awards to victims of war crimes, with lawyers estimating a 2003 attack on a Congolese village caused $16.4m in damage. Friday’s order for reparations for 304 victims of former Congolese warlord Germain Katanga is[…]
President Jacob Zuma is considering designating three new members of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the Presidency said on Friday. The Constitution allows for the president to designate four members of the JSC after consulting with party leaders represented in the National Assembly, his spokesperson Bongani Ngqulunga said. He had[…]
A video published on Thursday by Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem showed Israeli forces earlier this week in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron dragging an eight-year-old Palestinian boy, wearing only socks on his feet, through a neighborhood in the city in order to identify other children who[…]
About 250 people are feared drowned in the Mediterranean after two partially submerged rubber dinghies were found off the coast of Libya. Laura Lanuza, a spokeswoman for the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, said its boat, Golfo Azzuro, recovered five floating bodies on Thursday close to the dinghies, about 30km[…]
Lawmakers in Canada’s House of Commons, with strong encouragement from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, passed a motion Thursday paving the way for future measures to combat Islamophobia. The motion, which passed easily, asks the government to “recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear”[…]
The National Taxi Alliance (NTA) is concerned that a new amendment bill currently before Parliament could penalise taxi owners for the behaviour of individual drivers. The portfolio committee on transport heard on Thursday that the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Amendment Bill doesn’t differentiate explicitly between owners and drivers[…]
A German tourist and a South African man crashed into Lions Head while tandem paragliding in Cape Town on Thursday afternoon, Wilderness Search and Rescue said. They were both airlifted to the sports field of a nearby school and taken to a local hospital from there, spokesperson Johann Marais said.[…]
Western Cape police and the City of Cape Town have urged residents to refrain from making comments or posting pictures which are alarming on social media platforms. This follows the circulation of old images of burning buses to create the impression that taxi violence in Delft and Nyanga had escalated.[…]
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