International investigators are on Wednesday expected to announce charges against several suspects in the shooting down of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine five years ago in an attack which killed all 298 people on board. The Dutch-led probe has said it will first inform families, and then hold a press conference to unveil “developments in […]
The Philippines is prepared to cut diplomatic ties with China if it is shown that the sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese vessel in the disputed South China Sea was intentional, a Malacanang spokesperson said on Thursday. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. said he has already filed a diplomatic protest over […]
Truck drivers across South Africa are warning road users that they will take to the streets for a national shutdown on Wednesday 17 July. On this day, a landmark case for the trucking industry will be heard in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, following ongoing deaths and injuries of truck drivers who are being attacked while […]
Moments after a North Carolina man pleaded guilty to gunning down three Muslim university students, a prosecutor played a cellphone video of the slayings in the courtroom Wednesday as one of the victims’ relatives fainted, others wept openly and a man hurled an expletive at the confessed killer. Craig Stephen Hicks, 50, entered the plea […]
Durban police are calling on the public to assist them in finding a local taxi driver who apparently stabbed his ex-lover to death in front of her family. Mbalenhle Cele, 24, was murdered, in her bed, in front of her relatives in Inanda last Wednesday. IOL news reported that the suspect went to the woman’s […]
A five-year-old boy is being treated for Ebola in Uganda, the first case since a deadly outbreak in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo 10 months ago, Health Minister Ruth Aceng said Tuesday. Uganda has been on high alert since the outbreak across a porous border in the eastern DRC, where more than 2,000 cases of […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s much-awaited announcement on his cabinet is out and trending. Ramaphosa addressed the nation, announcing his Cabinet for the South African 6th administration at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday night. There was a bit of a delay in the president’s announcement that was set to take place at 20h00, but it […]
TOKYO: Moody’s cut its rating on Nissan by one notch on Friday, citing weak sales in the United States and casting a shadow on the Japanese automaker’s move to improve its business following a decline in its annual profit. Nissan — hit by former Chairman Carlos Ghosn’s arrest last year and troubles at its North […]
Terrorists have attacked two pumping stations in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday morning, according to the energy minister Khalid Al-Falih. Drones attacked two pumping stations of East-West pipeline, which carry Saudi oil from fields in the Eastern Province to the port of Yanbu on the west coast. The attacks caused a fire at station number 8, […]
Libya’s coast guard says it has rescued nearly 150 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Sunday that a rubber boat carrying 96 migrants, including 16 women and four children, was intercepted a day earlier off the city of Zawiya, 50 km west of Tripoli. Gassim said […]
