As South Africa’s police lose war on crime, private security firms step in
Experts have warned that the South African police are losing the battle against crime – and that has led those citizens who can afford it to turn to a booming …
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Israel and Hezbollah are on the brink of wider war after a week of threats and attacks
In many ways, it feels as though Israel and Hezbollah have been at war for months already. Almost constant, daily artillery and missile fire across the border with Lebanon has …
Alaska Airlines grounds aircraft, apologizes after window blows out midair
Alaska Airlines grounded all of its Boeing 737-9 aircraft late Friday, just hours after a window and piece of fuselage on one such plane blew out in midair and forced an …
Oscar Pistorius released from prison on parole, South Africa’s corrections department says
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison on parole and is now at home, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said Friday. The department gave no more details …
Israel’s Supreme Court overturns polarizing law that limited judicial oversight of government
Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, delivering a landmark decision that threatens to reopen the fissures in Israeli …
Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza flee for 2nd time in Israel-Hamas war
Tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families took flight again in a new mass exodus in central Gaza on Thursday as Israeli forces mounting a major advance pounded areas …
Hunger for gold means the Amazon has reached ‘tipping point’ of mercury contamination from illegal mining
The rising value of gold worldwide has amplified illegal mining in the Amazon, where liquid mercury is being dumped in the Amazon River and causing scientists to warn that Indigenous …
This Winnipeg scientist is using viruses to fight drug-resistant superbugs
Steven Theriault is convinced he has the solution to an urgent global public health threat — antibiotic resistance. But he can’t get his bacteria-killing viruses approved through what he calls …
Terrorists intensify attacks after military operations in north-west Nigeria
Residents of Sokoto, Zamfara and Katsina states in the North-west are witnessing what they described as a surge in terror activities following military offensives that led to the killing of …
Transgender 16-year-old Brianna Ghey murdered by two teens, British court rules
A boy and a girl were found guilty Wednesday of murdering a transgender teenager in northwest England earlier this year, in a “frenzied and ferocious” knife attack that was described …