More than two dozen activists were detained in Moscow on Tuesday as they were protesting a bill that stigmatizes the gay community and bans the giving of information about homosexuality to children. The protesters attempted to rally outside the Russian State Duma before what is expected to be a final vote on the bill banning
Read more: Russia to vote on bill that bans informing children that gay people exist
South Africa President Jacob Zuma appeared on state television Tuesday to reassure an uneasy nation that Nelson Mandela, although in a serious condition, is receiving the best of care. In a brief recorded interview Zuma reiterated that the anti-apartheid icon and father of modern South Africa was in a stable condition. “We are all feeling
Read more: Jacob Zuma tries to reassure South Africans over Mandela’s health
Pedestrians passing the Pretoria hospital where ailing former president Nelson Mandela is apparently being treated, were curious about his health on Tuesday. This was heightened by the presence of 10 police officers at the private hospital’s entrance, parameter fences, a police tape cordon, and media camping across the street. “I do not want to just
An embattled UN rights expert who probes Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians on Tuesday rejected calls to step down, saying his opponents were trying to silence his criticism of the Jewish state by labelling him anti-Semitic. “I don’t intend to resign, and there doesn’t seem to be any formal initiative that is seeking my dismissal,” Richard
Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife, ANC MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela arrived on Tuesday at the Pretoria hospital where the ailing elder statesman is believed to be receiving treatment. She and her daughter Zindzi arrived after 3pm in a black Audi, escorted by a white Mercedes-Benz. Photographers tried to take photos of them through the car’s tinted windows. Earlier,
Read more: Winnie Mandela arrives at Medi-clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria
National police confirmed on Tuesday that ailing former president Nelson Mandela was being treated at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria. This was the first official confirmation that he was being treated there, following rumours and visits by his family members to the hospital in the past few days. Security at the facility had been
Read more: Mandela is in Medi-clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took to Fox News Sunday to declare his legal opposition to the NSA’s surveillance programs. “I’m going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,” Paul said. “I’m going to be asking all the internet providers and all of the phone companies: ask your customers to
Read more: Rand Paul to challenge unconstitutional snooping by US
Germany appears to be the most snooped on EU country by the US, the map of secret surveillance activities by the National Security Agency shows. ‘Boundless Informant’ is among the data disclosed by former CIA contractor and NSA consultant Edward Snowden. The color-coded map of secret surveillance activities by the NSA ranks countries according to
The scene outside former president Nelson Mandela’s Johannesburg home was quiet on Tuesday morning, as the ailing icon entered his fourth day in a Pretoria hospital. Several journalists milled around on the street corner opposite the Houghton house drinking coffee and talking among themselves, with portable broadcasting equipment and cameras nearby. Johannesburg metro police officers,
by Dan Roodt The news that South Africa supplies 70% of the citrus fruit consumed in the European Union adds another ingredient to the debate around farmland in South Africa. In strictly economic terms, both farm murders and ANC’s radical land reform plans serve European protectionist interests. Our farmers are almost superhuman. Against all odds,
Read more: European Union must not side with the farm murderers of South Africa
There are few better settings for an international spy thriller than the chaotic, neon-lit streets of Kowloon, to the north of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour.In the early 1970s, Kowloon’s triad-infested back-alleys played host to Roger Moore’s James Bond who used the area as the backdrop for The Man With the Golden Gun. The Mira hotel’s
Russia is willing to consider granting political asylum for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who blew the lid on the US PRISM program, Russian media reported. Snowden dropped out of sight Monday after he was last seen checking out of a Hong Kong hotel. The Mira Hotel, is a self-described “design hotel” near Kowloon park on
An obviously tired German bank employee fell asleep on his keyboard and accidentally transformed a minor transfer into a 222 million euro ($293 million) order, a court heard Monday. The Hessen labour court heard that the man was supposed to transfer just 62.40 euros from a bank account belonging to a retiree, but instead “fell
The state has been unified in its calls for better monitoring and interventions to improve the outcomes of traditional circumcision. But how can the state intervene in a process on which it does not even have basic data? When the Mail & Guardian canvassed officials for information on the numbers of deaths and mutilations caused
