At least 19 people have been killed and 47 others injured when explosives carried by a girl, aged about 10, detonated in a crowded market in the Nigerian city of Damaturu, police have said. No one claimed responsibility for Sunday’s explosion but the latest attack bears the hallmarks of the[…]
Israeli forces injured 19 Al-Aqsa mosque guards on Sunday during renewed clashes at Al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. Al-Aqsa Compound Director Omar Kiswani said 19 Islamic Endowment Department guards suffered various bruises, fractures and cuts after being assaulted by Israeli forces with batons. Seven of them were hit[…]
Hundreds of Palestinian refugees rallied on Sunday in front of the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City in protest of a cut of services provided to them by UNRWA. On June 15 UN Commissioner-General Pierre Krhenbhl announced that UNRWA’s fiscal deficit for 2015 has reached $101 million. Palestinian refugees in Gaza[…]
Israeli forces broke into Al-Aqsa mosque compound Sunday morning firing stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Muslim worshipers as they cleared way for right-wing Jews who were visiting the compound to mark a Jewish fast day, witnesses said. Dozens of Palestinian worshipers were reportedly hit with rubber-coated bullets and suffered[…]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to win his country’s long-running civil war while acknowledging his troops are struggling to maintain control over territory amid lack of manpower. In a televised speech on Sunday before local dignitaries in Damascus, the embattled president tried to justify why the Syrian army has given[…]
Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and four others wounded in a car bomb attack in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, while Turkish aircraft continued bombing ISIL positions in neighbouring Syria and Kurdish fighters in Iraq. The blast struck a military vehicle passing through the town of Lice on Saturday[…]
The City of Cape Town has urged potential buyers of RDP houses to make sure that the house they are buying can be sold legally. The city says residents must be careful when buying a State-subsidised dwelling, commonly referred to as an RDP house, as there are restrictions on the sale[…]
The chief firefighter of Umhlathuze and his firemen demonstrated to journalists on Sunday morning how a pool of water could be used to extinguish fires at the Nkandla homestead. General Mondli Bethuel Zuma showed journalists the “firepool”, which was covered by a safety net normally used to prevent drowning. News24’s Amanda[…]
Media24 CEO Esmare Weideman has apologised for Naspers’s role in apartheid. “We acknowledge complicity in a morally indefensible political regime and the hurtful way in which this played out in our newsrooms and boardrooms,” she said to applause at the 100 year celebration of Naspers and Die Burger newspaper in[…]
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement in South Africa (BDS SA) say they will increase the pressure on US musician Pharrell Williams to end his controversial campaign with Woolworths. This week, BDS South Africa’s spokesperson Kwara Kekana sent a five page letter to Williams urging him to cut ties with[…]
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