The Maldives has joined a regional search for wreckage from missing flight MH370 following reports that islanders in the Indian Ocean nation had spotted unidentified debris, police said. Maldivian police are responding to several sightings of debris washed up along the northern atolls of the archipelago, some of which occurred[…]
The Masjid Al-Aqsa compound in the city of Jerusalem is one reaped in culture and history. It has down the centuries passed through the rule of empires such as the Umayyad Caliphate, the Templar Knights of the First Crusade, the Ayyubid Dynasty, The Ottoman Empire, and more recently the Palestinians.[…]
EFF members dismantled and set alight a tent used by controversial “snake pastor” Penuel Mnguni in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, on Sunday. The political party had wanted to force the pastor to eat rodents and snakes, like he allegedly did with some of his congregants, eNCA reported. ANN7 captured footage[…]
Dodgy tenders, paying rent for vacant buildings and forking out millions for employees improperly fired are reportedly some of the findings in Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s as yet unreleased provisional report on parastatal Passenger Rail Agency of SA. Some of her provisional findings in the report Missing Tracks, dated March[…]
The South African embassy in Mali is assisting with the repatriation arrangements for a South African man who was killed during the siege of a hotel in the country, the department of international relations said on Sunday. “The embassy is liaising with the authorities and the embassy will provide consular[…]
Family members of a Guatemalan man accused of killing his girlfriend in Camps Bay say that he distanced himself from them about a year ago. Diego Dougherty Novella, 41, appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges of killing American marketing executive Gabriela Kabrins Alban. His brother[…]
Two assailants have opened fire at the US consulate building in Istanbul and engaged in a gunfight with security personnel, according to local media reports. One of the assailants, a female, was wounded in the attack and captured by the police in an apartment nearby, media said, adding that police[…]
Two people were wounded in gunfire at a rally in Ferguson, Missouri on Sunday marking the first anniversary of the death of Michael Brown near where the unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white office. The gunshots rang out as police tried to disperse demonstrators blocking traffic and[…]
Officials in the Pakistani state of Punjab have called for a federal inquiry into what it called the largest-ever child abuse case in the South Asian country’s history involving nearly 300 children. The government of Punjab state on Sunday ordered a judicial investigation into the case that came to light[…]
This is part 2 on media censorship and abuse in the People’s Republic of China Censorship in China is a rather broad and diverse phenomenon covering all areas of information, whether it’s expounded via the internet, radio and television content, print publications, casual literature, or the performing arts. The restrictions[…]
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