The Syrian army seized control of the whole of Aleppo's Old City overnight on Tuesday, after rebels pulled out of the last areas under their control, sites close to the government reported. The reports were corroborated on Wednesday morning by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said that rebels had pulled out of the last remaining districts of Bab al-Hadid and Aqyul. The advance on the ground has […]
US President-elect Donald Trump laid out a US military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State (IS) group. In the latest stop on a "thank you" tour of states critical to his 8 November election win, Trump introduced his choice for defence secretary, General James Mattis, to a large crowd in North Carolina, near the Fort Bragg military […]
Nearly 60 people are missing five days after a ship sank off Yemen's remote Socotra island, its fisheries minister said on Wednesday, with state media reporting that only two people had been rescued. The boat went missing five days ago while heading from Yemen's southeastern port city of Mukalla towards Socotra with some 60 people on board, among them women and children, fisheries minister Fahd Kavieen said. Socotra lies in […]
By Ra-ees Moerat After the leadership of Cosatu gathered last week, the trade union made public its findings on service delivery in the Western Cape. Regional secretary of Cosatu, Tony Ehrenreich says that the score allocations for service delivery in the Western Cape are based on the audit conducted by their own members. “We look at all the areas of service delivery of government and based on the consensus of […]
Child soldier-turned-warlord Dominic Ongwen denied 70 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity on Tuesday when he became the first member of Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army to ever go on trial. Ongwen, 41, is also the first former child soldier to be tried by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for his role in the notorious rebel group led by the elusive Joseph Kony. "In the name […]
The Joint List, the Israeli parliament coalition representing Arab citizens of Israel, said yesterday that they planned to file a lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of accusations that a recent wave of mass fires in Israel and the occupied West Bank were caused by Palestinians. In statement on social media, head of the Joint List Ayman Odeh said the decision to file the lawsuit “for […]
Thousands of Indians have taken to the streets to mourn the death of Jayalalithaa Jayaram, chief minister of India's southern Tamil Nadu state, who died at the age of 68 after a prolonged illness. Jayalalithaa, one of the country's most popular political leaders, died late on Monday evening at the private Apollo Hospital in the state capital, Chennai, where she suffered a heart attack on Sunday. Security was tight outside […]
Two Muslim women working for authorities in New York suffered hate crimes just 36 hours apart, officials said Monday, following an explosion in such incidents across America since Donald Trump’s election. A uniformed city transit employee was taken to hospital with injuries to her knee and ankle after being pushed down the stairs at Grand Central, the bustling rail hub in the heart of Manhattan, en route to work Monday. […]
Police are investigating the circumstances around an explosion at a house in Vanguard estate in Athlone on Monday night, in which six teenagers were seriously injured. Paramedics responded to reports of a hand grenade explosion at a house in Goud Street in Vanguard Estate. On arrival, paramedics found that six people were injured. Injuries varied from moderate to serious injuries. Patients were treated and transported to hospital. Police spokesperson, FC van Wyk […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
