With the excitement and preparation for the festive season, comes numerous arrests and deaths in Cape Town. In the past week, traffic officers arrested some 88 motorists and issued over 2000 fines. 71 of these were arrested for drunken driving. A roadblock in Wynberg on Friday saw 27 arrests. Western[…]
As many as 85,000 children in Yemen starved to death in the past three years during its brutal war, an aid group reported on Wednesday. Using data compiled by the United Nations, Save the Children evaluated mortality rates for untreated cases of severe acute malnutrition in children under five-years old.[…]
Saudi Arabia admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, saying he died in brawl but made no mention of where his body is. Preliminary results of investigations showed the dissident writer died after a fight broke out inside the building shortly after he entered, the[…]
Below the full statement by Saudi Arabia’s state news agency SPA on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Public Prosecutor stated the following: “Preliminary investigations carried out by the Public Prosecution into the disappearance case of the citizen Jamal bin Ahmad Khashoggi revealed that the discussions that took place[…]
The road from the understandably chaotic Havana airport to the city centre takes you down the long straight of Presidential Avenue. On the left is the park where, on a normal Saturday night, groups of young people gather, play music, smoke and tease each other, all competing for the biggest[…]
Social media has seen thousands of posts pour in with condolence messages as the news broke out that the noble Hadrat Shah Mohamed Saeed Soofie, the great Sufi Master of South Africa passed away at the age of 73 on Sunday, January 17, 2016 in the blessed city of Makkah[…]
A digital magazine associated with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has released a eulogy for “Jihadi John”, a member of the group who won global notoriety for his filmed executions of hostages. The fighter, who was identified as Mohammed Emwazi, was described in ISIL’s Dabiq magazine[…]
Residents of the southern Egyptian city of Luxor have staged a rally in protest at the death of a man in police custody, the latest in a string of killings by security forces, the state-owned Ahram newspaper reported. The protest on Tuesday came almost a week after the death of[…]
eNCA on Thursday morning reported that local singer, Ricardo Groenewald has passed away. The 43-year-old first shot to fame in 1987 with his hit song I Love You Daddy. Groenewald was eight at the time. According to media reports the singer had been battling cancer for a long time and[…]
The inquest documents into the death of Ahmed Timol will provide more than just historical value, shedding new insight into his life as an activist and Apartheid police accounts of what happened during his detention, according to Zaakirah Vadi of the Kathrada Foundation. Tuesday marked the 44th anniversary of Timol’s[…]
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