Water Scarcity Hits South Africa As Electricity Shortage Persists
The epileptic power supply in South Africa has led to the shortage of water as taps run dry in cities like Johannesburg and Pretoria, according to BBC. Sipho Mosai, the head of state-owned Rand Water, one of the country’s main water providers said the country’s electricity woes, with regular lengthy scheduled blackouts hit hard on the people. The report said wealthy...
Eight Killed In Turkey Land Dispute
At least eight people died in a shootout between two families fighting over prized agricultural land in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast, a local official said Thursday. The disputed fields in Diyarbakir province were set on fire after the shooting, with flames starting to spread on Thursday, an AFP journalist in the region said. Three survivors of the violence were taken to hospital...
UK Doctors Embark On Third Strike In 2023 Over Pay Rise
Up to 47,600 junior physicians from the British Medical Association (BMA) went on strike on Wednesday in response to a demand for higher pay. The strike, which began at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, will terminate on June 17 at 7 a.m. According to the organization, young doctors have experienced a 26 percent "pay erosion" over the previous 15 years as their...
Rwanda Genocide Suspect Unfit To Stand Trial, UN Court Rules
An 88-year-old man accused of being a major financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is unfit to stand trial, a UN court has ruled. Félicien Kabuga's lawyers had argued that he suffered from dementia. He was arrested in Paris in 2020 after evading capture for 26 years, reportedly moving around East Africa. He is alleged to have financed ethnic Hutu militias who...
Ex-Vice-President Mike Pence joins White House Race
Former US Vice-President Mike Pence has officially filed paperwork to join an increasingly crowded field of Republicans running for president. Mr. Pence, 63, is set to formally launch his campaign with a video, speech, and town hall event in the early-voting state of Iowa on Wednesday. The move pits him against Donald Trump, the man he served in the White House...
President Biden Signs Debt Ceiling Bill, Avoiding Govt Default
President Joe Biden has signed a debt ceiling increase, raising the government's borrowing limit and averting a potential default on the national debt. The deal Biden negotiated with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., — called the Fiscal Responsibility Act, suspends the public debt limit through Jan. 1, 2025, and cuts non-defense spending to near fiscal 2022 levels, capping growth at...
Fatal India Train Crash Claims 288 Lives, 850 Others Injured (PHOTOS)
At least 288 people were killed and more than 850 injured in a horrific three-train collision in India, officials said on Saturday. The accident is the country's deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years. Images from the crash site showed smashed train compartments torn open with blood-stained holes near Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha. Carriages had flipped over entirely...
Senegal: Nine Feared Dead As Protesters Clash With Police After Sonko’s Conviction
No fewer than nine persons have been confirmed dead in the violent clashes that erupted between supporters of Ousmane Sonko, the opposition leader convicted of "corrupting youth" and the police, the Interior Ministry has announced on Friday. Clashes broke on Thursday shortly after the court verdict which sentenced him to two years Imprisonment. There are fears among his supporters that he...
Police Discover 45 Bags Of Body Parts In Bush
Mexican authorities have found 45 bags containing human body parts which they said could be the ones of the missing call centre staff. The bags were discovered in a ravine in a suburb of Guadalajara on Wednesday night, according to the state prosecutor’s office in Jalisco. CNN said the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office investigating the deaths said it has initial information...
80-Year-Old American President, Joe Biden, Falls On Stage While On Official Duty
The President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, fell on stage while on official duty at the graduation ceremony of the Air Force Academy in Colorado. Biden, 80, stumbled and fell to his knees after handing out Diploma Certificates to the graduates. The president walked away without help and appeared to point to a sandbag on the stage that...
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