France, Germany and Italy have confirmed they’ll join China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Participation in the rival to the US-led World Bank is seen as a setback for the Obama administration. The three European countries on Tuesday confirmed in a statement they intend “to become founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,”
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A white mother and daughter were assaulted and the daughter stabbed while walking on the beach at Ballito’s Salmon Bay on Tuesday. Bela de Sousa and her daughter Gabriela, who matriculated in 2013, parked their car at The Galley and walked towards Zimbali. They were on their way back when an aggressive black man ran
One of the most terrifying cases of late involved a dramatic jump from a top story window by a 57-year-old Ramsgate woman who wanted to alert her husband to two masked black men who had broken in at breakfast time on Monday. Police spokesman Captain Gerald Mfeka said Arnold Miller (72), of Ilala Crescent, had
The SA National Parks (SANParks) received a new helicopter to improve its fight against rhino poaching, it said on Thursday. “SANParks is a proud recipient of a brand new Airbus AS-350B3e helicopter with night flying capability made available with funding from the US-based Howard G Buffet Foundation,” the organisation said in a statement. SANParks chairman
A Welkom family is lucky to be alive after two gunmen shot dead at least 21 people at Tunisia’s Bardo Museum. Johan Cronjé and his family are holidaying aboard the MSC Splendida, which docked in Tunis on Wednesday. He told OFM News via satellite phone from the Mediterranean Sea, he and his family went past
Read more: Welkom family lucky to be alive after Tunis attack
French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala was found guilty on Wednesday of “condoning terrorism” after posting a sardonic Facebook message in January. After the attacks that killed 12 people at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, one municipal police officer south of Paris, and four people at a kosher supermarket, Dieudonné wrote on his
Read more: The convicted French comedian and the lying ex-minister
A review of Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America, by William H. Frey. By Christopher Caldwell “We believe our diversity, our differences, when joined together by a common set of ideals, makes us stronger, makes us more creative, makes us different,” Barack Obama pronounced at a citizenship ceremony last Fourth of July.
Washington’s EU vassals might be finding their backbone. Britain, Germany, France, and Italy are reported to have defied Washington’s orders and applied to join the Chinese-led Asian Investment Bank. Australia, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland and Luxembourg might also join. Washington uses its development banks such as the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, along with
The White House is about to turn to the UN to help force a deal between Israel and the Palestinians. The development also reflects deepening pessimism over the prospect of negotiations delivering peace between Israelis and Palestinians. After years of blocking efforts to pressure Israelis and Palestinians into accepting a lasting two-state solution, the United
Read more: US turns to UN to hold off ICC case against Israel
A Virginia state senator who once thanked the Syrian government for defending Christians is worried about the fate of Damascus, the Middle East and Europe. “If Damascus falls, the dreaded black and white flag of ISIS will fly” over Syria, Virginia state Senator Richard Black told RT. “Within a period of months after the fall
American diplomats, US Embassy consul for political affairs, Andrea Brouillet-Rodriguez and second secretary of the US Embassy, Christopher Grossman were presented with Russian “gifts”. One of the presented photos, “Gorlovka Madonna,” is considered one of the symbols of war in Donbass. A young mother with a ten-month baby in her arms from Gorlovka was killed
After a week of student protest, UCT vice-chancellor Max Price has given up on the statue of colonial war criminal and génocidaire Cecil John Rhodes. Price says it should be moved from its “pride of place, at the focal point of the campus”. In an attempt to stop the protests, Price yesterday announced a fast-track
Two men were found dead in separate vehicles along the N1 freeway in Maraisburg, Johannesburg, on Wednesday, Gauteng police said. Lieutenant Kay Makhubela said it appeared that the first motorist was forced off the road by unknown persons on Tuesday night before being shot and set alight inside his vehicle. “The second motorist stopped to
An Indian journalist, Devi Sankaree Govender, working on current affairs for the programme Carte Blanche, was mugged while working on a story in Bloemfontein on Wednesday morning. Sankaree Govender tweeted that her chain was ripped off her neck, but she was otherwise unhurt. According to Netwerk24, the Carte Blanche team was filming an insert outside
