OPINION by Ebrahim Moosa (A South African based freelance Journalist and researcher with the Palestine Information Network (PIN). Find PIN on Twitter @learnpalestine) As I knuckle down for this piece, Gaza, ominously, seems teetering on the brink of another conflagration. “Gaza is imploding. This is not hyperbole. This is not alarmism. It[…]
The fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi says she has declined an invitation to the White House from US President Donald Trump, accusing him of not being sincere about investigating the killing. Hatice Cengiz told Turkish TV she thought the invitation was aimed at influencing public opinion in the[…]
Israeli fighter jets struck dozens of sites across the Gaza Strip early on Saturday as fighters fired about 30 rockets into Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire in several weeks. The fighting followed a bloody day of border protests, in which Israeli forces shot and killed five Palestinians protesting along the perimeter fence[…]
A 56-year-old man has been arrested in Florida in connection with a mail-bombing campaign aimed at critics of US President Donald Trump. US officials named the man as Cesar Sayoc. He faces five charges including mailing explosives and threatening ex-presidents. Trump said the acts were “despicable and have no place[…]
Hundreds of people in Overcome Heights informal settlement in Vrygrond‚ near Muizenberg‚ were left homeless when their shacks burnt in a fire that started on Thursday afternoon. According to the City of Cape Town‚ 309 homes and 842 people were affected. The City is providing starter kits to rebuild dwellings‚[…]
Police are casting the net wide in an attempt to find the relatives of a woman whose body washed up on a Cape Town beach earlier this month. On Friday, Western Cape police spokesperson FC van Wyk revealed that the remains belonged to a woman. When the “human remains” were[…]
In its efforts to help communities affected by the recent fires in Cape Town get back on their feet, the City of Cape Town is in the process of clearing debris and issuing emergency fire kits. The fires engulfed Kosovo informal settlement, Khayelitsha and Overcome Heights in Vrygrond, leaving hundreds[…]
Organisers of an Indonesian movement to promote a moderate brand of Islam cancelled a mass rally after its youth supporters burned the flag of an outlawed hard-line Muslim group, sparking allegations of blasphemy. The rally in Yogyakarta, predicted to draw 100,000 people, was stopped to prevent violence, said Yahya Cholil[…]
At least 18 people, mostly children, were killed when torrential rains swept away a bus carrying students and teachers touring near the Dead Sea, according to sources in the country’s civil defence directorate. Most of the dead are reported to be schoolchildren under the age of 14. Officials said the[…]
A knife-wielding woman wounded 14 children at a kindergarten in western China on Friday. The attacker, a 39-year-old woman armed with a kitchen knife, was taken into custody in the city of Chongqing and no motive for the assault was given by police. The attack at the Xinshiji Kindergarten in[…]
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