International News

S.Africa prosecutor drops fraud charges against Gordhan

  • PRETORIA, Oct 31, (APP/AFP) – South Africa’s top prosecutor on Monday announced that fraud charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his co-accused would be dropped. Shaun Abrahams said he for sees difficulties in proving the charges that have caused divisions within the ruling party.

  • Thousands mourn Morocco fishmonger crushed in rubbish truck

    AL HOCEIMA, Morocco, Oct 31, (APP/AFP) – Thousands of Moroccans Sunday attended the funeral of a fishmonger whose gruesome death in a rubbish truck crusher has caused outrage across the North African country, with authorities vowing to punish those responsible. Mouhcine Fikri, 31, was crushed to death on Friday in the truck in the northern […]

  • Presidential candidates keep it in the family in Palau

    KOROR, Palau, Oct 31, (APP/AFP) – The Pacific island nation of Palau goes to the polls Tuesday with two brothers-in-law vying to become president — and they admit it’s made for some awkward conversations at the family dinner table. The election pits incumbent Tommy Remengesau against Surangel Whipps Jr. after they emerged as the leading […]

  • New Italy quake sows terror, flattens historic church

    NORCIA, Italy, Oct 31 (APP/AFP) – Italy’s most powerful earthquake in 36 years struck the country’s mountainous centre Sunday, panicking shell-shocked residents for the third time in two months and flattening a world famous 600-year-old basilica. Remarkably, there were no reports of anyone dying as a result of the 6.6-magnitude quake but more than 3,000 […]

  • Cargo plane carrying four missing in eastern Indonesia

    JAKARTA, Oct 31, (APP/AFP) – A cargo plane carrying four crew members went missing Monday during a short flight in mountainous eastern Indonesia, authorities said, the latest blow to the country’s beleaguered aviation sector. The Caribou plane lost contact with air traffic control during what was supposed to be a flight of around half an […]

  • Continued arrest spree in occupied Kashmir denounced

    ISLAMABAD, Oct 31 (APP): Hurriyet leaders, Mohammad Yousuf Naqash, Zamruda Habib and Javaid Ahmad Mir, in occupied Kashmir,have denounced the continued arrest spree and described it as the worst type of human rights violation and frustration of the authorities.