At least six people were killed and eight were wounded after a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City during evening prayers, police said. Gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center on Sunday at 8pm local time (01:00 GMT). Police said two suspects had[…]
US President Donald Trump has defended his executive order on immigration which restricts access to citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations to the US. Rejecting the ‘Muslim ban’ label, he said it will only be in place until new security policies are implemented. “To be clear, this is not a Muslim[…]
A federal judge has blocked part of President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, ruling that travellers who have already landed in the US with valid visas should not be sent back to their home countries. Lawyers had filed a legal case in response to the order that includes a[…]
The Israeli Supreme Court has demanded that the Israeli state prove that it was not directly discriminating against Palestinians in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem by passing a 2015 law that strips social benefits for Palestinian families whose children are convicted of stone-throwing. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Israeli[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Twitter on Saturday to hail new US President Donald Trump’s decision to build a wall on the border with Mexico. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order telling officials to begin to “plan, design and construct a physical wall” along the 3,200km US-Mexico[…]
Three of South Africa’s biggest banks are considering bidding to distribute government welfare payments to more than 17 million people. This as a contract with a subsidiary of welfare grant distributor Net 1 UEPS Technologies comes to an end, after years of legal battles. The existing contract earned Net 1[…]
“We’re going to be in trouble.” This is what ANC general manager Ignatius Jacobs said when he got his first glimpse of Sihle Bolani’s “war room” report. Bolani, a public relations expert, had just handed Jacobs her report on the ANC’s covert campaign set up ahead of the 2016 local[…]
The Chairperson of Parliament’s Police Portfolio Committee, Francois Beukma, says they will seek legal advice this week following suspended National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega’s decision to challenge the findings of the Claasen report. According to the report, Phiyega is unfit to hold office. She was suspended in 2015. The move[…]
“Disgraceful”, “a travesty”, “racist”. These were some of the words used to describe a measure signed off by US President Donald Trump that suspends immigration from several Muslim-majority countries, and indefinitely bans Syrians – including refugees – from entering the United States. Closing off his first week in office, Trump[…]
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order suspending the US refugee programme for 120 days, specifically barring Syrian refugees until further notice. Trump signed the order at the Pentagon, saying the moves would help protect Americans from “terrorist” attacks. “I’m establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists[…]
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