The City of Cape Town has warned against a new employment scam by an individual purporting to be an official recruiter from the Western Cape Department of Health, who is alleged to be offering community members jobs in exchange for a once off deposit. Some locals have been coaxed by[…]
A group of university professors in the U.K have vowed to take a stand against Israel’s oppression of Palestinians in the occupied territories, as well as its continued violations of international law. Roughly 343 academics have shown their support for a growing academic boycott against the controversial state by cutting[…]
The crowd of students gathering in front of Parliament have started to grow as more protesters, some wearing white headbands, have joined in. Earlier a group of about 100 students and workers gathered outside the gates of Parliament to hand over a memorandum calling for the police minister to be[…]
There is strong evidence that Myanmar’s Rohingya people are facing genocide at the hands of the country’s Buddhist rulers, leaving the ethnic minority group with little choice but to either die at the hands of local persecution, or put their lives in the hands of “people-smugglers” and attempt to flee[…]
Plans to build a mosque in east London that could hold services for up to 9,000 worshippers at a time have been rejected by the planning minister. The Department for Communities and Local Government dismissed appeals against the refusal of planning permission for the mosque in Newham. A spokesman for[…]
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande will wait for President Jacob Zuma to return from abroad to tell the country where the money to cover a shortfall in higher education funding will come from. The funding shortfall arises from President Zuma’s decision that there would be no fee increases at tertiary[…]
By the end of this century, areas of the Persian Gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humidity so severe that simply being outside for several hours could threaten human life, according to a study published Monday. Because of humanity’s contribution to climate change, the authors wrote, some[…]
Syria’s main political opposition body and representatives of the armed opposition have not been invited to international talks on the country’s war, an opposition politician and a rebel leader said. The Syrian government in Damascus has meanwhile yet to issue any official comment on the meeting in Vienna on Friday[…]
The United Nations has warned that a deadly surge in violence between Israelis and Palestinians is leading them towards a “catastrophe”. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday that the latest flare-up in the six-decade-old conflict was “dangerous in the extreme”. “The violence between Palestinians and the Israelis[…]
China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of the strict one-child policy, the ruling Communist Party said on Thursday, a move aimed at alleviating demographic strains on the economy. The policy is a major liberalization of the country’s family planning restrictions,[…]
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