Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Venezuela are ready to freeze oil production at January’s level if other producers do the same. The agreement came after a meeting in Doha on Tuesday. Oil prices have dropped below $30 a barrel in recent months, a fall of 70 percent since 2014. Counting[…]
A defence lawyer for four US journalists who were arrested in Bahrain says they are heading to the airport to fly out of the country. Mohammed al-Jishi told The Associated Press that the journalists had left a police station and were on their way to the airport to fly out[…]
Fiery Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema on Tuesday apologized to former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Nelson Mandela for helping to bring President Jacob Zuma to power, before he led a walkout of his MPs from the National Assembly. Participating in the debate on Zuma’s State of the Nation[…]
Universities should come clean about how much money they have got stashed away, the Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN) said in public hearings in Parliament on Tuesday. During a presentation to Parliament’s higher education committee on the Higher Education Amendment Bill, HETN chairperson Dr Ingrid Tufvesson said the organization backed[…]
Parliament – Deputy Justice Minister Thabang Makwetla wants the Economic Freedom Fighters called to order for not respecting the “Die Stem” part of the national anthem. This was after EFF MPs sat down during parts of the singing of the national anthem during President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation[…]
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that his government is planning stages of a multi-year project to surround the entirety of Israel with security barriers to defend against what he called “wild beasts” in the region. Haaretz quoted Netanyahu as saying: “At the end, in the State of[…]
France and Turkey have called the bombing of two schools and five hospitals in Syria “war crimes”, while hopes for a ceasefire faded as President Bashar al-Assad played down prospects of a truce. Up to 50 civilians, including children, died when missiles hit at least five medical buildings and two[…]
Islamic State (IS) fighters have used mustard gas to attack Kurdish soldiers, a diplomat told Reuters on Monday. The gas was used in two attacks in Iraq near the Kurdish capital of Erbil in August last year, sources close to Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the world’s[…]
Israeli soldiers raided a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and shot at Palestinians resulting in the injuries of 28. Hundreds of young men from the al-Amari camp responded to the Israeli presence by throwing rocks, leaving 28 with gunshot injuries. The Palestinian health ministry said 28[…]
The health of Palestinian prisoner Muhammad al-Qiq has deteriorated further, one of his lawyers said Monday, as the imprisoned journalist entered his 83rd day on hunger strike. Hanan al-Khatib, a lawyer with the Palestinian Authority Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, said in a statement that al-Qiq was suffering sharp pain in his[…]
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