Gunmen have stormed an upscale hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital, setting off loud blasts and sending people fleeing for their lives following a coordinated assault claimed by the Somalia-based al-Shabab armed group. More than 16 hours after the attack began at Nairobi’s Dusit hotel complex, which also[…]
European Union leaders have warned Britain is running out of time after UK politicians resoundingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit agreement, deepening the country’s worst political crisis in decades. Following the crucial vote on Tuesday in Britain’s lower house of parliament, frustrated officials in Brussels and other European capitals[…]
At least 15 children displaced within Syria have been killed by sub-zero temperatures and lack of access to medical care, the United Nations said on Tuesday. According to Unicef, the UN’s agency for children, eight were killed by the freezing cold in the Rukban camp on the Syria-Jordan border. Another[…]
Thousands of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank demonstrated against the Palestinian Authority’s controversial social security law, amid fears that the fund will be mismanaged. Shops and businesses in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, and other major West Bank cities shut their doors on Tuesday, while hundreds of Palestinians protested in Ramallah,[…]
Children are known for dodging and ducking skipping ropes on the streets, but in Cape Town’s Bokmakierie suburb they dodge and duck bullets. Six-year-old Brionay Julies is in excruciating pain at the Red Cross Hospital. She had been sent to a local shop and was shot at the gate when[…]
The North West teacher at the centre of South Africa’s latest race battle has come out guns blazing in defence of her name and the children she teaches. Fighting back tears as she read out a statement in Pretoria on Tuesday, Elana Barkhuizen told a media conference that she was[…]
One of the suspects arrested for the murder of an elderly couple in their Ottery home said he wants to confess “and tell the whole story.” On Monday, the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard that Rugaya and Riedwaan Addinall were allegedly fed rat poison and strangled on Sunday 6 January 2018.[…]
The Dominican School for the Deaf describes the recognition of sign language as a subject, as a major victory for the hearing-impaired community. According to the 2001 StatsSA, approximately 20 percent of all disabled people in South Africa suffer from hearing loss, leaving the minority to adapt to issues surrounding[…]
Police have launched a search for two suspects who allegedly hijacked a 42-year-old driver for an e-hailing app in Grassy Park at the weekend. The driver had allegedly picked up a passenger from Plumstead, as well as the passenger’s friend in Zeekoevlei on Saturday night. The driver was then directed[…]
A 24-year-old Eastern Cape man appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Monday after allegedly raping his mother in her Nyanga home. The man has denied the accusation and has counter claimed that his mother is falsely accusing him after he threatened to expose her drinking and “bad deeds.” State[…]
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