International News

March 19, 2017

UN report: Israel has established an ‘apartheid regime’

A new United Nations report accuses Israel of having established “an apartheid regime that oppresses and dominates the Palestinian people as a whole”. The publication comes […]
March 19, 2017

UN official resigns over Israel apartheid report

The head of the United Nations’ West Asia commission, Rima Khalaf, has resigned over what she described as the pressure to withdraw a report that was […]
March 19, 2017

How does the EU hijab ruling affect Muslim women?

The European Union’s top law court ruled on Tuesday that employers are entitled to ban staff from wearing visible religious symbols – a decision some said […]
March 19, 2017

Sassa crisis: SA court averts welfare payments crisis

One in three South Africans depends on the social grants South Africa’s constitutional court has averted a crisis on welfare payments to 17 million people by […]
March 19, 2017

Bhanwari Devi: The rape that led to India’s sexual harassment law

Bhanwari Devi is a grassroots government worker Bhanwari Devi is an unlikely heroine. Nearly a quarter of a century after the illiterate, low-caste woman was allegedly […]
March 19, 2017

US man held for sending flashing tweet to epileptic writer

A man accused of sending a flashing image to a writer in order to trigger an epileptic seizure has been arrested, the US justice department says. […]
March 19, 2017

Mark Kavanagh & Danny O’Brien: Trainers have doping bans overturned

Two Australian trainers found guilty of doping horses have had their bans overturned after evidence used to prosecute them was ruled inadmissible. Melbourne Cup winner Mark […]
March 19, 2017

Australia’s Anglican church gets 1,115 child abuse complaints

The complaints cover a period from 1980 to 2015 More than 1,100 complaints of child sexual abuse have been made against the Anglican Church of Australia, […]