Police have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of Calais ‘Jungle’ migrants who blocked the main road to the Channel Tunnel in a bid to board lorries bound for the UK. The road remained closed for hours as refugees clashed with French law enforcers. The trouble started at around 15:00[…]
Turkish authorities have detained and charged two journalists and an academic with spreading “terror propaganda” after the group took part in a solidarity campaign supporting a pro-Kurdish publication. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative and journalist Erol Onderoglu, head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Sebnem Korur Fincanci, and writer[…]
A 19-year-old man has been charged for trying to grab a police officer’s gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas and use it to kill the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. According to a complaint filed in US District Court in Nevada on Monday, Michael Sandford tried to disarm[…]
Thousands of Venezuelans have been queueing around the country to validate signatures as part of a long-drawn-out process to request a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro. Earlier this month, about 1.3 million people signed a petition for a recall vote – far more than the 200,000 required to move[…]
While Muslims have managed to preserve the history of Islam within the Cape, the alleged desecration of the Tana Baru cemetery by illegal occupants has raised further concern. According to the Tana Baru Trust, a family who has resided intermittently on the land for the past 32 years, refuses to[…]
As Palestinian Muslims make the most of observing Ramadan under occupation, continued water restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities has worsened the already challenging situation. While Palestinians have reported large scale siphoning and control of the water supplies in the West Bank, Israel’s national water company, Mekorot, denied restricting water supplies,[…]
Despite the storm that engulfed the Cape over the past weekend, the Ahlan Wa Sahlan food distribution project at Rahmaniyah Masjid in Steenberg still got underway with the Steenberg, Lavender hill and surrounding areas participating in the event that takes place every Sunday, at various locations, around the Cape. Every Sunday[…]
Former SA Football Association CEO Lesley Sedibe is suing the association for R5-million for defamation. The summons is said to have been served on Friday. In March, Fifa banned Sedibe for five years for allegedly fixing Bafana Bafana’s friendlies ahead of the 2010 World Cup. In court papers, Sedibe is[…]
A record-high 65 million people, a figure equivalent to the entire United Kingdom, are displaced by wars and conflict globally. “Governments worldwide are displaying paralysis and renouncement of responsibility,” warned Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) At the beginning of 2016, 24.5 million people had fled[…]
Opposition parties have called on the public protector to widen the investigation into the Gupta family’ s business interests after the Sunday Times reported on claims that they had sought to procure a R51-billion Passenger Rail Agency of SA tender . DA transport spokesman Manny de Freitas said the investigation[…]
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