In an unprecedented move in the battle to contain an Islamic State insurgency in Northern Iraq and Syria, Turkey has finally approved a deal that will allow the United States to launch airstrikes from a key military base in the southern part of the country. The decision represents a major[…]
The office of the regional land claims commissioner has issued a warning to potential claimants to be aware of bogus land claims officials, after a spate of complaints against individuals attempting to solicit funds, as well as political allegiance. The office has heard complaints about prospective claimants being approached by[…]
An Indian official has revealed that the Asian peninsular country is home to more than 180 million Muslim population. The number was revealed by Indian Deputy National Security Advisor Dr Arvind Gupta in a meeting last Tuesday with Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb who holds the highest seat of religious learning in[…]
A man has been arrested after the body of a 39-year-old woman was found at a Camps Bay hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Details surrounding the incident remain sketchy, but it is understood the murdered woman was an American citizen on holiday in Cape Town. The 41-year-old suspect is believed to[…]
The Congress of the People (Cope) has laid a charge of fraud against former SABC board chairperson Ellen Tshabalala for allegedly lying about her qualifications. “It is fraud because she claimed she had qualifications [with which] she got a chairpersonship of the SABC board,” Cope spokesperson Dennis Bloem told News24.[…]
ANC provincial executive member Andile Lili was arrested on Wednesday night following his remarks earlier in the week that criminals should be “killed immediately and brutally”. Lili, who is also the leader of the Ses’khona People’s Rights Movement, on Tuesday addressed a cheering crowd of supporters outside the Bellville Magistrate’s[…]
An Egyptian court has adjourned the long-running retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists for the ninth time, with the next hearing scheduled for August 2. Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian Baher Mohamed, and Canadian Mohamed Fahmy were found guilty in June 2014 of aiding a terrorist organisation, a reference to the[…]
The Taliban have chosen supreme leader Mullah Omar’s deputy to replace him, two militant commanders said on Thursday, as Pakistan announced that scheduled peace talks between the radicals and the Afghan government would be postponed. Pakistan cited a statement in Kabul on Wednesday about Omar’s death as the reason for[…]
A man convicted of taking part in India’s worst-ever attack, the 1993 bombings in Mumbai, has been hanged, Indian TV stations reported. India’s president and Supreme Court rejected last-ditch pleas to stay the execution of Yakub Memon over his role in the bombings, clearing the way for him to be[…]
One of the most wanted men in the world for over a decade, Mullah Omar was also one of the most elusive. There are no clear photographs in existence of the tall, one-eyed leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban radicals, and only a handful of foreigners have seen him. Even when his[…]
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