Human Rights Watch has echoed accusations by Syrian activists that Russia was behind the use of new advanced cluster munitions in Syria, by dropping them from its warplanes or supplying them to the Assad government. The New York-based group said that photographs it obtained showed that the cluster munitions were[…]
A military helicopter has crashed at the NATO base in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing five coalition members and injuring five others, authorities have said. A statement from the Resolute Support Mission did not give the nationalities of those killed and injured, all of them NATO personnel. However, Britain’s Ministry[…]
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir and his five co-accused who were convicted of attempted murder, kidnapping and dealing in drugs were expected to be sentenced in the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday. Their sentencing was postponed last month because Krejcir’s lawyer, Annelene van den Heever, was off after sustaining a[…]
Israeli forces shot dead a 13-year-old boy during clashes south of al-Bireh in Ramallah district, medics said. The child, identified as 13-year-old Ahmad Sharaka, was shot in the neck with a live round, medics said. He was rushed to the Palestinian Medical Complex in Ramallah where doctors operated on him,[…]
The bomb blasts in Ankara which killed 97 people at a peace rally on Saturday have raised tensions in Turkey, just three weeks before snap elections are due on November 1. In the predominantly southeastern Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Sunday, demonstrators condemned the attack and called for peace. The[…]
Using ground troops in Syria is out of the question, the Russian president said in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV. Russia’s air operation has been thoroughly prepared and is aimed merely at aiding the Syrian Army’s offensive, he said. “Whatever happens, we’re not going to do this [ground operation][…]
The ANC on Sunday said it was concerned about increasing number of privately owned security companies which had mushroomed in South Africa. Chairperson of the peace and stability sub-committee, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, said the problem was that some of these companies were not owned by South Africans. “Most of[…]
An ANC Western Cape ward councillor who was suspended by the party on Saturday has joined the Democratic Alliance just a day later. The ANC announced on Saturday that Kraaifontein Ward 101 councillor Siseko Mbandezi was suspended with immediate effect for not performing – and on Sunday the DA welcomed[…]
Iraqi security forces say they have struck the convoy of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, in an air strike near the country’s border with Syria. “The Iraqi air force carried out a heroic operation targeting the convoy of the[…]
There has been a significant drop in ANC membership numbers since 2012 – but around 200 000 are still on probation and were not counted in the audit, the party’s head of elections Nomvula Mokonyane said. This was because of a resolution taken at the party’s 2012 Mangaung conference, which[…]
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