An Egyptian appeals court on Thursday annulled a decision to drop a murder charge against former president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising. The Court of Cassation accepted the prosecution’s appeal against the dismissal of the murder charge against Mubarak, who had initially[…]
A number of Sunni tribal sheikhs and tribes in Iraq’s Anbar province have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. The sheikhs and tribal leaders made the pledge on Wednesday in Fallujah in a statement read out by Ahmed Dara al-Jumaili, an influential sheikh,[…]
Officials within the government of the former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh worked with al-Qaeda ahead of a 2008 attack on the US Embassy in Sanaa which resulted in 19 deaths, it is claimed on Thursday. It is alleged that Saleh’s security chiefs ignored repeated warnings that the embassy would[…]
Israeli warplanes attacked multiple targets in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, witnesses and Palestinian security sources said. Airstrikes targeted three training bases of the Izzadine al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in Gaza City and a fourth in the southern city of Khan Younis. No injuries or casualties were reported. An[…]
A former executive committee member of football’s global governing body FIFA told a US judge in 2013 that he took bribes in connection with the 1998 and 2010 World Cups, according to a partial release of his testimony. US prosecutors on Wednesday unsealed the transcript of the 2013 hearing in US[…]
Local armed opposition fighters say they are still in control of their only north-south supply line after Islamic State (IS) unleashed a dawn attack in Lajat, northeast of Daraa in southern Syria, on Tuesday. The attack was IS’s second offensive in southern Syria in six weeks. Following the group’s usual pattern,[…]
The condition of hunger-striking prisoner Khader Adnan, who has been on strike for a month, is deteriorating and he is in serious danger, a prisoners’ rights group said Wednesday. The director of the legal department of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Jawad Boulos, who visited Adnan in the Ramle prison’s clinic, said[…]
The Hawks will conduct a preliminary investigation into allegations that SA Football Association head Danny Jordaan was involved in the funneling of a $10 million bribe to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwana Mulaudzi on Thursday said this decision came after a request from[…]
Magistrate Abigail Beeton is expected to announce her decision on whether or not murder-accused Christopher Panayiotou will be granted bail on Thursday at the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court. Panayiotou, 28, is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of his wife Jayde on April 21. He faces charges of conspiracy[…]
George “Geweld” Thomas, leader of the feared 28s gang in Bishop Lavis, was sentenced to an effective 175 years in jail in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for each of the seven murders he was convicted of. In May, Judge Chantell Fortuin found[…]
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