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UN experts criticise UK PM’s potential plan to move British embassy to Jerusalem

INTERNATIONAL Three UN experts have strongly criticised UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's repeated suggestion that she may relocate the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, Truss told her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid that she is reviewing the embassy's current location. During the Conservative party leadership contest, Truss, then foreign secretary, told the Conservative Friends […]

today24 September 2022

International

British Muslims’ citizenship reduced to ‘second-class’ status, says report

INTERNATIONAL Many British Muslims have been reduced to "second-class" citizens as a consequence of citizenship-stripping powers introduced by the UK government since 2002, according to a new report by a race equality think tank. The report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), entitled "Citizenship: from right to privilege", follows the recent extension of the controversial powers - which have been extensively used against British nationals who travelled to Syria - in the […]

today12 September 2022

Local

South Africa tells Western envoys it needs financial support to shift from coal

South Africa told visiting climate envoys from the United States, Britain, Germany and France that it needs major financial support to move away from coal, the environment department said on Wednesday. South Africa is the world’s 12th biggest carbon emitter, according to the Global Carbon Atlas, five places ahead of the United Kingdom, an economy eight times the size, emitting 479 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2e) in […]

today30 September 2021

International News

Research reveals British military operating in scores of locations across Middle East

The UK government is maintaining a military presence at scores of facilities across the Middle East, according to research conducted by a London-based investigative journalism outlet. There are British forces personnel serving at 15 locations in Saudi Arabia and 16 in Oman, according to a report published by Declassified, which investigates UK foreign policy and military activities. The UK is operating 23 military bases across the region, including Cyprus, and […]

today25 November 2020

News

Yvonne Ridley on Muslim women and human rights

By Yaseen Kippie While South Africans feel the country is in bleak state given the current political upheaval and weak economy, world renowned speaker Yvonne Ridley calls our country a place of optimism, and an example for the Middle East. Ridley is a British journalist, who was captured by the Taliban in 2001, and later converted to Islam. Her study of Islam was a condition for her offer to the Taliban […]

today18 October 2017

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