Children who applied for unabridged birth certificates before June 1 would still be allowed to travel if they didn’t receive their documents in time, Home Affairs Director-General Mkuseli Apleni told MPs on Tuesday morning The head of the specific home affairs branch would issue a letter confirming that an application[…]
Iraqi forces have launched a counteroffensive to retake areas of Anbar province recently captured by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Officials in Iraq’s Anbar province told the Associated Press on Tuesday that there were air strikes and fighting on the ground west and south[…]
Senior PLO officials on Tuesday rebuffed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to resume peace talks that would allow the annexation of settlements, stressing that all construction in the occupied West Bank is illegal. “It’s a request to continue illegal settlement construction with Palestinian consent. This looks like one state[…]
Pro-government fighters have retaken a southern Yemeni city from Shiite rebels in their first significant advance since a Saudi-led coalition began striking the rebels in late March. Officials and witnesses in the southwestern city of Dhale said Tuesday that pro-government fighters also captured the command center of the 33rd Armored[…]
There was chaos at Mitchells Plain Town Centre on Tuesday morning as new DA leader Mmusi Maimane embarked on a political rally. Despite the wet weather, hundreds of DA supporters came to out to hear Maimane, along with DA Provincial Leader and Mayor Patricia De Lille. The rally forms part[…]
Gang violence has gotten out of control in the Cape Flats region to a point where the army has been dispersed in certain areas in order to curb the fighting. This increase in gang violence has also lead to an increase in the abuse suffered by women and children on[…]
More than 500 people have lost their lives in the past week in a sustained and severe heat wave in India. The worst-off areas are the southeastern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in southern India, where state authorities say more than 400 people have died in the past few days.[…]
The second man in line for the Palestinian Authority (PA) presidency, Aziz Duwaik, was issued a 12-month prison sentence and a 6,000 shekel fine by an Israeli court near Ramallah on Monday. Duwaik, a senior Hamas member and speaker of the Palestinian Legisaltive Council (PLC) was arrested from his home[…]
Syrian government forces reportedly launched 17 airstrikes in and around Palmyra on Monday morning, following a Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) report that says IS has executed at least 217 people in the past nine days in the ancient city of Palmyra. The Observatory said on Sunday that it[…]
Egyptian naval forces late Monday opened fire on a Palestinian fishing boat off the coast of the southern Gaza Strip, injuring a fisherman from Rafah. Palestinian sources identified the fisherman as Muhammad al-Bardawil. The shooting came after two other Gazan fishermen were shot and injured by Israeli forces earlier in the[…]
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