Construction on the City of Cape Town’s flagship hostel transformation project in Langa has been suspended due to ongoing protest action in the area, the City said in a statement on Tuesday. “While we respect the rights of residents to protest, this aggressive and illegal behaviour is utterly unacceptable,” said[…]
South Korea has stopped broadcasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda on the border, in a deal with North Korea, allowing the two countries to pull back from the brink of a potential military conflict. The move was part of a deal announced earlier on Tuesday following marathon talks. The broadcasts included news from[…]
A school sports hall converted into an emergency refugee shelter has caught fire in the German town of Nauen, in what police suspect was an arson attack. The hall in the eastern town of Nauen, located 15km west of the capital Berlin, had been redesigned to house about 130 asylum[…]
A record number of refugees streamed into EU member Hungary from Serbia, police said, just days before Hungary completes a border fence. A total of 2,093 potential asylum seekers, the highest ever daily total, crossed the border near the Hungarian town of Roszke, a police statement said on Monday. They[…]
Iran is not considering a prisoner exchange with the United States, a senior official said on Tuesday, ahead of an expected verdict for an Iranian-American journalist held in Tehran for more than a year. “The reports on the possible exchange of prisoners are not true and it is not on[…]
An investigation has been launched to root out exploitation by cash-hungry religious leaders. This investigation would probe the affairs, especially the finances of all churches, mosques and synagogues and other faith based organisations. The investigation will also look at illicit practices and the commercialisation of religion and abuse of people’s[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat “Israel is technically defenseless and humiliated” claims Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today. Duff, a US Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War, writes that it is not conjecture and while not a positive prospect for peace, is entirely the result of Netanyahu’s scheming. He[…]
Chinese stocks have tumbled another 6.41 percent on the opening of its markets on Tuesday, extending Monday’s nine percent plunge. The stock market falls follow China’s move to devalue its currency earlier this month and have triggered global fears that all is not well in the world’s second-biggest economy. Al[…]
At least three people have been killed in clashes between rival armed groups in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, near the southern port city of Sidon. Fighting between the Jund al-Sham group and members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement on Monday began in the northern part of Ain[…]
The healthcare system in the Gaza Strip is on the verge of collapse, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said Monday, warning that hospitals could stop operating within hours due to the territory’s energy crisis. Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson for the ministry, said that “Shifa Hospital, Kamal Adwan hospital, the European Gaza Hospital, and[…]
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