Durban – Another person has died after being struck by lightning in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), the province’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) said on Monday. The latest light lightning strike happened at around 19h30 on Sunday night at a house in the Ndwedwe area, said KZN EMS spokesman Robert Mckenzie. “At this[…]
The incidence of new HIV infections among young females in South Africa is more than four times higher than that of males. South Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the world with over 400 000 new HIV infections a year. With February earmarked as Reproductive Health Awareness Month, these[…]
Every hour a women is killed in India, Pakistan and or Bangladesh in a form of domestic violence known as bride burning, a category of dowry death, which results in one of the most horrific deaths possible, being burnt alive. Dowry is an ancient tradition among the upper castes, but[…]
Syria’s foreign ministry has condemned Turkey’s shelling of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria and sent two letters voicing its concern to the United Nations, Syrian state media reported. “Turkish artillery shelling of Syrian territory constitutes direct support to the armed terrorist organisations,” the ministry told the UN Secretary General and[…]
“It is obvious that these remarks are more of propaganda slogans. The means and capabilities of countries are completely clear and with these propagandist bluffs, none of their problems will get resolved,” Zarif said upon his arrival in Brussels early on Monday to discuss key regional issues with European Union[…]
Clashes have taken place and youths have been arrested in Bahrain as protesters commemorated the fifth anniversary of the beginning of pro-democracy protests in the Gulf island state. An unspecified numbers of minors were arrested for “riots and acts of sabotage” and for having “disrupted people’s interests,” the state-run Bahrain[…]
Libya’s UN-backed council announced the formation of a revised national unity government on Sunday, with the internationally recognised parliament to vote on the line-up early this week. The council — tasked with ushering in a peace deal to end years of political turmoil in the North African country — revised[…]
Hundreds of mourners marched the streets of Hebron city on Sunday in the funeral procession for an 18-year-old Palestinian woman killed by Israeli forces on Saturday after the teen stabbed and lightly injured an Israeli soldier in Hebron’s Old City. Mourners carried the body of Kilzar al-Uweiwi from her family home[…]
Police are investigating a business robbery after four armed men robbed Trigg Jewellers in Cavendish Square on Sunday morning. The same jewellery shop was robbed about five months ago. Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said Sunday’s robbery took place at around 11.30am. “The suspects fled the scene with an[…]
DA MP and former prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach and her lawyer were on Monday expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on charges of obstruction and defeating ends of justice. According to the National Prosecuting Authority, the matter relates to an NPA investigation in 2012 in which Breytenbach was investigated[…]
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