Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said Saudi Arabia’s decision to cut diplomatic ties with Tehran “cannot cover its crime” of executing prominent Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr. Riyadh on Sunday severed relations with Iran after its embassy in Tehran was set ablaze during protests against Saudi Arabia’s execution of Nimr,[…]
At least 27 people, including three children, have drowned off Turkey’s Aegean coast after their boat capsized in rough seas. Seventeen of the bodies were discovered on the shoreline in the district of Ayvalik, while ten others were found in the district of Dikili, a gendarmerie official in the local[…]
Islamic State’s territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the U.S.-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the hardline Islamist group on the[…]
Pupils in the eight provinces will be able to view their results and collect their matric certificates at school from 08:00 on Wednesday morning. Matric exam quality assurer, Umalusi, has already warned that the national pass rate will be lower than the 75.8% for the class of 2014. However, even[…]
Police are still in the dark about started the fire which devastated the homes of over 1 000 people and left one man dead in a section of Hout Bay’s Imzamo Yethu on Boxing Day. The fire broke out late on the evening of December 26 and strong winds quickly[…]
One person was seriously injured in a paragliding accident in Green Point, Cape Town, on Monday. City of Cape Town fire and rescue services spokesperson, Theo Layne, said the paraglider crashed in Beach Road, Green Point, on Monday afternoon. She was assisted by paramedics and fire rescue services. She was[…]
Saudi Arabia said on Monday it would restore ties with Iran when Tehran stopped meddling in the affairs of other countries and pledged that Riyadh would continue to work “very hard” to support bids for peace in Syria and Yemen despite the spat. Saudi Arabia cut all ties with Iran[…]
Banking giant HSBC has stopped offering financial services to the charity Islamic Relief, which becomes the latest Muslim organisation to have its ties with the company cut. Islamic Relief UK was told by HSBC its activities in “high-risk jurisdictions” posed a challenge to the bank due to pressure from US[…]
Hezbollah set off a bomb targeting Israeli forces at the Lebanese border on Monday in an apparent response to the killing in Syria last month of a prominent commander, triggering Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon. Israel has struck its Iran-backed Shi’ite enemy Hezbollah in Syria several times, killing a number[…]
Israeli forces on Monday afternoon detained former Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, most famous for undertaking two grueling hunger strikes to secure his release from Israel’s prisons. Witnesses told Ma’an that an Israeli military vehicle stopped a private car Adnan was driving near Silwad village east of Ramallah and took him[…]
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