France has launched a renewed air and sea search around the Indian Ocean island of Réunion in the hope of finding more debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The operation was announced 24 hours after a public prosecutor declared there was a “strong possibility” a wing flaperon discovered[…]
Almost a quarter of a million people, including nearly 12,000 children, have been killed in Syria’s conflict since it broke out in March 2011, a UK-based activist group has said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said it had documented the deaths of 240,381 people, up from its tally[…]
A blast triggered by a suicide bomber has killed 15 people at a mosque inside a special forces headquarters in Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. An interior ministry spokesman said on Thursday that the “terrorist” attack took place during noon prayers in the city of Abha, in the southern[…]
A French woman who was abducted in Yemen in February has been freed. French President Francois Hollande’s office said in a statement early on Friday that the woman, Isabelle Prime, would return to France in the coming hours. “Our compatriot Isabelle Prime has been freed tonight,” the statement said. “The President[…]
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man on Thursday after a suspected car attack which injured three Israeli soldiers, a Ma’an reporter said. Mohammed Badwan, a Palestinian from Biddu village east of Ramallah, allegedly ran over three Israeli soldiers on Route 60 near the illegal settlement of Shilo, north[…]
At least four Palestinians were killed on Thursday and over 30 injured when an unexploded ordnance from last summer’s Israeli military offensive went off while clearing rubble from a destroyed house in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said. Palestinian medical sources at the Abu Yousif al-Najjar hospital in Rafah said four[…]
“It is clear we will never get an answer from the president. Let’s meet in court.” These were the final words EFF leader Julius Malema delivered in the National Assembly on Thursday, clearly dissatisfied with the way in which President Jacob Zuma answered his question on Nkandla. Malema wanted to[…]
A 52-year-old off-duty Western Cape policeman was shot in the face while at a Mitchell’s Plain car wash on Thursday afternoon. Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Thembinkosi Kinana said the warrant officer was waiting for his car at a garage at the corner of Cedar and Boshof streets in Westridge, when[…]
Sandra Opperman sleeps under a surprisingly clean threadbare blue blanket on a pavement in the Cape Town CBD. “Sjoe, meisie, maar dis koud op die straat [girl, it’s cold on the street],” she admits after begging for a R5 “for bread”. “But this is the life I chose. It’s where[…]
Axed Prasa CEO Lucky Montana allegedly threw a brick at a journalist in Pretoria on Thursday night. It left a dent in Rapport journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s work car as he sped off, narrowly avoiding a head-on collision, he said. “He flung the brick with what seemed to me the intention[…]
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