Israel’s justice and internal security ministers on Wednesday announced plans for legislation banning the use of Facebook to advance “terror” and outlawing incitement from the internet. Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said in a joint statement that they met senior Facebook executives earlier on Wednesday,[…]
The human rights and Palestine solidarity organisation BDS South Africa said it welcomes the withdrawal by the Centre of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) from an upcoming conference in Israel. The prominent South African human rights organization, the CSVR, was scheduled to participate at the upcoming International Network of Genocide Scholars[…]
So frenetic was the fighting between looters and police in Mabopane City on Wednesday night that officers under attack ran out of rubber bullets. News24 has obtained two radio transmissions from desperate police officials who were surrounded on the ground. In the transmissions, an officer urgently calls for backup. “Urgent[…]
One of Pakistan’s best known Sufi musicians, Amjad Sabri, has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi, triggering an outpouring of grief over what police have described an “act of terror”. Sabri was shot several times on Wednesday while driving in his car in the city’s Liaqatabad[…]
Field hospitals behind the frontlines in Libya’s Sirte were full on Wednesday after fierce fighting against Islamic State (IS) militants left 36 dead and more than 140 wounded in a single day, with the toll expected to rise as battles continue overnight. “I am so angry and upset I almost[…]
The man responsible for reuniting missing former SABC chief executive Solly Mokoetle with his family had no idea who he was when he found him dazed and confused outside a local school at the weekend. “But it is my culture to help a person, no matter who he is,” Tshidiso[…]
The Gupta family are aggressively wooing the shareholders of UBank in a desperate bid to buy the financial institution to ease their banking woes. This comes two years after the Guptas’ first attempt to buy UBank failed and months after all of South Africa’s major banks stopped doing business with[…]
The ANC Women’s League is not supporting suspended ANC Western Cape chairperson Marius Fransman in his sexual harassment case. “Actually I personally spoke to my comrade [Marius Fransman] and told him we are not going to be able to support him,” league president Bathabile Dlamini told News24 on Wednesday. The[…]
Police said on Wednesday that two suspected looters had been shot dead in the capital in violence triggered by the ruling party’s choice of a mayoral candidate for local polls. Police said they also arrested 40 rioters who had been attacking foreigners’ shops as public anger mounted over economic hardship[…]
United Nations peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said on Wednesday troops would be sent home from a U.N. mission in South Sudan due to their response to deadly violence at a compound. The United Nations said on Tuesday that an inquiry found that confusion over command and control and rules of[…]
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