The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen said on Sunday it will investigate an air raid that killed more than 140 people, after Washington announced it was reviewing support for the alliance. The Houthi rebels have blamed the Arab coalition for Saturday’s attack, one of the deadliest since it launched[…]
A Palestinian opened fire from a car in Jerusalem Sunday and again as police chased him, killing two people, authorities said, after concerns over the potential for a new upsurge in violence. The gunman was killed soon after carrying out the attack near police headquarters, close to the line dividing[…]
Classes at the University of the Witwatersrand are to resume on Monday‚ the university’s senior executive team said in a statement on Sunday. This follows weeks of violent protests by students demanding free education which saw classes being disrupted and cancelled. The protests saw a number of students‚ including student[…]
The battle for free university education is headed for a crisis after government revealed plans to announce a draconian mid-term budget, which will include cutting its numbers of civil servants. Senior government officials told City Press that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s medium-term budget – to be delivered in two weeks[…]
The full scale of the devastation in rural parts of storm-hit Haiti became clear as the death toll soared to nearly 900 three days after Hurricane Matthew levelled huge swaths of the country’s south. As Matthew threatened the US coast on Saturday, US President Barack Obama urged Americans to mobilise[…]
Three Syrian refugee children have been hit and threatened with a knife by a gang of right-wing youths in eastern Germany, according to police. The boys, aged five, eight and 11, were getting out of a bus in the town of Sebnitz, around 40km east of Dresden, when they came[…]
War-torn Yemen has been hit by a cholera outbreak, the United Nations has warned, saying it poses a further threat to children in the impoverished country. “This outbreak adds to the misery of millions of children in Yemen,” Julien Harneis, the representative for the UN’s children agency (UNICEF) in the[…]
Indian troops have fired warning shots and used tear gas as they clashed with thousands of people in Srinagar protesting against the killing of a 12-year-old boy by security forces. Doctors told Al Jazeera that Junaid Ahmad died early on Saturday at a hospital in the main city of the[…]
Increasing VAT to 20% on all items except basic foods‚ a 10% reduction in government employees’ salaries and diverting “fruitless and wasteful expenditure” by government departments to the Department of Higher Education could assist in funding free education for tertiary students. These are some of the suggestions made by Facebook[…]
Cape Town anglers staged a peaceful demonstration on Friday, against what they say is an increase in crime targeting them in the False Bay area. Rafeeq “Fiki” Marlie, a local angler and organiser of the demonstration, said on Friday that thousands of anglers in False Bay were increasingly becoming victims[…]
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