Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has pledged to find out what caused a crane collapse that killed 107 people at Mecca’s Grand Mosque in the run-up to the annual Hajj pilgrimage. The Hajj, a pillar of the Muslim religion which last year drew about two million faithful worshippers, will take place[…]
French judges investigating claims that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was murdered have closed the case without bringing any charges, a prosecutor said. “At the end of the investigation … it has not been demonstrated that Mr Yasser Arafat was murdered by polonium-210 poisoning,” the three judges ruled on Wednesday, according[…]
The Passenger Rail Agency of SA’s new Afro 4000 locomotives only speak Spanish, which is hampering an investigation into the accident involving a Shosholoza Meyl train. The probe by the Railway Safety Regulator into derailment of the 11-carriage train, which was pulled by one of the controversial new locomotives, two[…]
Investigators searched for clues on Friday to identify what caused two huge explosions at a warehouse storing volatile chemicals at a busy port in northeast China, as foreign and local companies assessed the damage to their operations. The blasts in the city of Tianjin on Wednesday night killed at least[…]
Fifa President Sepp Blatter is being investigated by US authorities as part of their corruption inquiry into football’s governing body, The New York Times (NYT) has reported. Blatter, who announced on Tuesday that he will be resigning from his position , has not been directly implicated in the parallel US and[…]
A police station commander’s determination to root out what she saw as corruption among officers working closely together resulted in a Western Cape top cop ending up in the dock with other senior officers on Friday. Mohamed Saleem Dawjee, the businessman who allegedly bribed Lieutenant General Arno Lamoer and other[…]
South Africa’s State Security Agency (SSA) will investigate whether the information leaked in the recent Spy Cables was in fact that of the SSA, and if so, how such information was obtained and released. That was according to SSA spokesperson Brian Dube, after the intelligence agency was implicated in the[…]
An investigation into the leaking of classified security documents by broadcaster Al Jazeera is under way, State Security Minister David Mahlobo said on Wednesday. “A full investigation has been launched into the purported leakage,” he said in a statement. “Its veracity and verification will be handled in terms of the[…]
Amid claims in a Sunday Independent article alleging that 140 South African’s are now recruited as part of the Islamic State (IS) radical group, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has called for an urgent investigation by the Department of State Security into the reports. Speaking to VOC News, the ulema[…]
A police officer has been killed during an investigation in Khayelitsha, Western Cape, the department of community safety said on Friday. MEC Dan Plato said in a statement the 37-year-old officer — who was stationed at Lingelethu West, in Khayelitsha — was shot on Thursday night and succumbed to his[…]
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