On a winter morning in January, Majed, 13, and his friend Omar, 11, were heading to a public park near their homes in eastern Aleppo to play and ride their bikes. It was only two weeks since the December ceasefire began, and the lull in fighting allowed the two friends[…]
A Palestinian was killed by Israeli police on Monday morning in Occupied East Jerusalem after wounding two border guards with a knife, police said. The attacker, who was a resident of Occupied East Jerusalem, entered a border guard post and wounded the two before being shot dead, according to the[…]
A Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 was released after serving 20 years in prison. Ahmed Daqamseh was given a rousing welcome in his home village in northern Jordan after being freed on Sunday. He expressed no remorse for the killings. Daqamseh was greeted by chanting supporters[…]
At least 46 people have been killed and dozens are missing after a landslide struck at a massive garbage dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital. The landslide late on Saturday levelled more than 30 makeshift homes of squatters living inside the Koshe landfill on the outskirts of Addis Ababa,[…]
The assault case against the ANC’s Western Cape secretary Faiez Jacobs is expected to resume in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Jacobs last month pleaded not guilty to assaulting his policy co-ordinator Wesley Seale in 2015, saying he slapped him after he was confronted. Seale, however, said he[…]
Anti-crime activist Yusuf Abramjee says he hopes police will get to the bottom of the latest racist facebook post. Abramjee laid criminal charges against Obatala Mcambi at the Brooklyn police station in Pretoria on Saturday for allegedly inciting violence and hatred. Mcambi posted on his Facebook page that he used[…]
The mother of a month-old baby and three others will appear in court in Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday, facing a charge of abduction. The woman claimed that her baby was kidnapped in the Durban CBD on Friday while she was breastfeeding the infant. The office of Acting Police Commissioner[…]
At least 2000 Hout Bay residents affected by the devastating fire that swept through the Mandela Park Imizamo Yethu township have been left homeless. This as a fire engulfed at least 1000 informal structures and caused the death of two individuals. The fire was one of four fires over the[…]
Following a media briefing by the organisers of the 40th Cape Town Cycle Tour, it has been confirmed that the 35 000 cyclists who registered for the annual event will not be refunded their registration fees. The event was cancelled soon after the elite bunch opened the race due to strong[…]
Following months of devastating fires across the Cape, the City’s Fire and Rescue Service responded to three separate fires last night, which claimed the lives of nine individuals. Speaking to VOC News, City Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson, Theo Layne, says that rescue services responded to a fire in an[…]
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