The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current
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Egypt’s foreign minister, vowing not to give up “a single drop of water from the Nile”, said on Sunday he would go to Addis Ababa to discuss a giant dam that Ethiopia has begun building in defiance of Cairo’s objections. Speaking to Egypt’s state news agency MENA two days after the Ethiopian government flatly rejected
Police again deployed tear gas and water cannons to quell more than thousands protesters that gathered in downtown Ankara. Just a few kilometers away, the Turkish PM was addressing his supporters after warning his patience with the demos “has a limit”. At least two people were injured in fresh clashes in downtown Kizilay square in
The latest Quinnipiac University poll, published today, will send shivers through the White House, even though Washington is experiencing its first heat wave of the year. The Quinnipiac survey is the first major survey to show that the wave of recent scandals hitting the Obama administration are beginning to damage President Obama’s own standing with the
That young black man Trayvon Martin was killed last year by white neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman is not in dispute. But as Zimmerman’s trial begins today it may be harder to establish what represents justice. Frank Taaffe ponders how fast the gated community here in Sanford where he bought his house seven years ago
No one knows for sure which hospital Nelson Mandela is in, but many journalists suspect it’s the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria. Mandela was taken to hospital for a recurring lung infection on Saturday. The street outside the health facility is lined with reporters. We have done this many times before. Every time there is
Journalists who crowded around Mandela’s home in Houghton on Sunday remained anxious, waiting for news on the former statesman’s health. Mandela was admitted to a Pretoria hospital at about 1.30am on Saturday morning. Mandela suffers from a recurring lung infection. The last update on the former statesman’s health was issued by the presidency on Saturday
One of Johannesburg’s heritage sites, the Drill Hall, is in a derelict state despite getting a R10 million upgrade in 2004, The Times reported on Monday. The Drill Hall was the venue of the 1956 preliminary hearings of the treason trial in which former president Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu were among the 156 accused.
While Oscar Pistorius awaits his trial for the killing of his lover, Reeva Steenkamp, another attractive young blonde is constantly at his side. But there’s no danger of athlete Claudia Viljoen stepping into tragic model Steenkamp’s shoes since her role with the Paralympic gold medallist is very different. Her job as double amputee sprinter Pistorius’s
The seriousness of Nelson Mandela’s health status was driven home on Sunday when his family took charge of his hospital stay. The Star understands that the family have barred everyone – including government leaders and senior party officials – from visiting the ailing icon, who was rushed to Pretoria’s Mediclinic Heart Hospital around 1.30am on
The weak rand has spurred African property buyers to snap up high-end homes on Cape Town’s luxurious Atlantic Seaboard and the City Bowl. Ian Slot, managing director of property and real estate company Seef, said the shaky currency has revived “foreign buying activity”. Slot said his company has sold 75 properties for almost R566-million since
The controversial issue of affirmative action will be decided this month by the US Supreme Court and will set a precedent in how colleges and universities accept students. It is not expected to have significant impact on the current admissions policies of Utah’s colleges and universities, however. The case, Fisher v. University of Texas, which
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Britain said on Sunday it and other countries were “very reluctant” to arm rebels in Syria even as it warned that success on the battlefield by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad was undermining chances of a Geneva peace conference. Britain and France worked together last month to lift a European Union embargo on arms
Donald Trump added to his portfolio of race-based insults, citing figures provided by Fox News Channel anchor Bill O’Reilly as proof that “the overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is committed by blacks and Hispanics.” “We must stop being so politicially correct,” he tweeted. “Must tell it like it is.” His first
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