London’s newly elected Mayor Sadiq Khan is now firmly seated in his office in City Hall. A few weeks into his mandate and the diminutive politician continues to enjoy surprisingly positive headlines from a normally hostile press. Yet for all the glowing praises surrounding his election – somehow described as[…]
The Fukushima clean-up team remains in the dark about the exact locations of 600 tons of melted radioactive fuel from three devastated nuclear reactors, the chief of decommissioning told the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent program in an exclusive interview. The company hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel from[…]
Russia has called for a temporary truce to begin in two towns in the Damascus countryside after multiple attacks in northwestern Syria killed at least 150 people. The Russian defence ministry wants the truce in the towns of Daraya and Eastern Ghouta to begin on Tuesday and last for 72[…]
Desmond Tutu’s daughter has been forced to give up her duties as a priest in South Africa’s Anglican church after she married a woman, she told AFP on Tuesday. Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu-van Furth can no longer preside at Holy Communion, weddings, baptisms or funerals after handing in her licence[…]
Greek authorities have begun an operation to evacuate the country’s largest informal refugee camp of Idomeni on the Macedonian border, blocking access to the area and sending in more than 400 riot police. The government’s spokesman for the refugee crisis, Giorgos Kyritsis, said police would not use force on Tuesday[…]
Pope Francis met the grand imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque at the Vatican on Monday in a historic encounter that was sealed with a hugely symbolic hug and exchange of kisses. The first Vatican meeting between the leader of the world’s Catholics and the highest authority in Sunni Islam marks[…]
The ad-hoc committee tasked with replacing Public Protector Thuli Madonsela will have until August 31 to report back to the National Assembly. Parliament kick-started the process on Tuesday when ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu tabled a motion in the National Assembly to establish the committee. Their duty would be to[…]
President Jacob Zuma has applied for leave to appeal a court ruling that 783 corruption charges against him must be reinstated, the Presidency said late on Monday. Zuma gave five reasons for his decision and felt strongly that the High Court in Pretoria had erred in several respects, his office[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Monday his rejection of a French initiative for an international peace conference to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stating once again that he would only consider “direct negotiations” with Palestinian leadership without Palestinian preconditions.“Peace just does not get achieved through international conferences, UN-style,” Netanyahu[…]
The uMkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) in Nelson Mandela Bay has acknowledged support for the ANC in the Eastern Cape was “dwindling”. At a press conference on Monday, Regional Executive Committee Chairperson Ntsikelelo Kwezi said that the organisation had taken a back seat for long time while they[…]
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