Fox News anchor Sean Hannity promised to provide a much-needed history of the much-maligned Confederate flag. For a moment, it seemed as though he and his guest, Mark Steyn, would deliver on the promise and lift the veil of ignorance. But no: The two showmen conducted a tactical tit-for-tat. They pinned the battle flag of
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China has bashed the US with its own “Human Rights Record of the United States in 2014”, argumentatively advising Washington that it should take a look in the mirror before pointing fingers. Beijing has answered the US with its own annual Human Rights Record of the United States in 2014, which was released by the
The Palestinian Authority has submitted the first evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes committed during the Gaza conflict in 2014 to the International Criminal Court, seeking to accelerate the investigation of these abuses. After meeting the ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said that he had submitted the dossiers concerning the
“They (Jews) are devils, they are good for nothing… they (Jews), like Adam Habib, are uncircumcised at heart,” ranted ousted Wits Student Representative Council (SRC) president Mcebo Dlamini in an interview with PowerFM on Tuesday night. In defence of these remarks, he said the Jewish community had misconstrued his “I love Hitler” comments and taken
Immigration lawyers have noticed a spike in inquiries from South African residents interested in emigrating from one or two a week last year to about 10 a week now. Even the NGO Homecoming Revolution, which encourages expats to return to South Africa, admits there is a spike of “negative sentiment” in the country. Homecoming Revolution
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Google Inc said on Thursday it had started testing the latest prototypes of its self-driving cars on Mountain View, California roads, with safety drivers aboard. The prototypes will join Google’s Lexus cars, which use the same self-driving software, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Google’s self-driving Lexus RX450h sport utility vehicles have
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BRUSSELS — The latest developments involving Greece and its bailout negotiations: ___ 5:35 p.m./ 1535GMT/ 11:35 a.m. EDT The eurozone’s top official, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, says new proposals from Greece came in too late for a proper assessment during the European Union summit, which will end on Friday. That has forced the negotiations to stretch into
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The leader of France’s far right Front National party, Marine Le Pen, has declared that the United States is not “an ally or a friend” to the French, in light of Wikileaks reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on three French presidents. “France should react with firmness and send out a strong signal
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has begun minting its own “Islamic dinar” coins, Syrian activists claimed on Tuesday night. Pictures posted on social media showed a series of gold sovereigns bearing ISIS inscriptions, and with a reported value of one gold dinar being with $139 (£89). An anti-ISIS activist by the name
Sweden’s third largest city, Malmö, has descended into chaos as police respond to a huge rise in racism and tensions between ethnic groups, involving bombs, hand grenades and guns. It follows a spate of clashes between different ethnic groups in Malmö, in what police describe as a worrying rise in racial tensions dating back over
Queen Elizabeth II again made political comments when she cautioned British and German politicians over the ‘dangers of division’ at a state banquet in Berlin. Buckingham Palace has denied the statement was political. The British monarch espoused the benefits of cooperation between European nations as she remembered the “worst” events of the continent’s history during
Dutch television has aired a slideshow of Prophet Mohammad cartoons, a month after the series was presented at a caricature competition in Texas that was attacked by two gunmen. Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is at the helm of the new scandal. During a three minute broadcast slot allocated to Wilder’s Freedom Party, the politician promoted
Louis Farrakhan stated “We need to put the American flag down. Because we’ve caught as much hell under that as the Confederate flag” in remarks before the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, DC on Wednesday first reported by DC’s WMAL. Farrakhan said, “White folks march with you because they don’t want you upsetting the city,
The face of drug addiction in South Africa has changed, with organisations estimating that about one in five people use drugs on a regular basis. The advent of newer drugs, mostly consisting of a mixture of existing substances and additives available on the market, has fed the need for the “high” that temporarily allows users
