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The Saudi Arabian consulate is quiet today after investigators had spent hours yesterday and Monday searching the premises looking for clues into the disappearance of Washington Post columnist, and Saudi citizen, Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi was last...
Four prominent human rights and press freedom groups have urged Turkey to request a United Nations investigation into the possible murder of Jamal Khashoggi to prevent a "whitewash" of the alleged crime. The Committee to Protect Journalists, Hu...
Thousands of people rushed to the opening of the new 525-metre long bridge spanning the Nile River in southern Uganda. The project was funded by a 112 million dollar loan from the Japanese International Corporation Agency. It is hoped that the bridg...
Meanwhile, the Afghanistan police community is mourning the death of one of the powerful police commanders in the country, General Abdul Razeq. Razeq was killed outside the governor’s office in the southern province on Thursday - October the 1...
Almost nine million people have registered to vote in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections tomorrow. However concern grows as the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC), struggles to distribute voting materials, to more than 5,...
We received news that one of the Imaams of the Masjid Al Quds, Gatesville Mosque, Sheikh Fuad Isaacs, has passed away. Sheikh Isaacs studied in Egypt and was of the Imaam of Masjidul Quds in Gatesville, Cape Town for 26 years.
An outbreak of Bordetella Pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough has hit Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape. The Eastern Cape’s Department of Health has confirmed that 26 cases of whooping cough have been reported with one fatality. R...
Meanwhile US senators have urged Donald Trump and his company to publicly disclose any financial ties to Saudi Arabia, as speculation grows over possible conflicts of interest. According to reports, open letters signed by 11 Democratic Senato...
The United Nations Peace Envoy for Syria, has announced he would step down at the end of November for family reasons, quitting as the Syrian government, backed by Iran and Russia has retaken most of the country, while a political deal remains elusiv...
Turkish crime investigators left the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after searching the premises and consular vehicles as part of an investigation into missing journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. The search was the second there this week, after investigators...
The Washington Post has published an article written by Jamal Khashoggi two weeks after he disappeared. Khashoggi, a U.S. resident, and columnist for the Washington Post vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where he went to o...
The United Nations Secretary General, Antonnio Guterres has urged the international community to act swiftly to save those unfortunate, out of poverty. Guterres said 10 percent of the world’s population remains in extreme poverty and more than...
The World Health Organisation (WHO), says the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was a source of concern for the region but not a global threat. However, the WHO warned that it could spread any time to neighbourin...
China has come out in strong defence of its alleged mass imprisonment of minorities in the far west Xinjiang region. International criticism mounts as China introduced controversial "reeducation centres" at the detention centres where one milli...
Softbank Group Corp shares have fallen dramatically since the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. The Japanese conglomerate whose nearly 100 billion dollar assets is financed by Saudi Arabia under the Vision Fund went down by almost 8 percent at the c...
Turkish prosecutors entered the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul in a bid to establish the reasons for the disappearance of Saudi dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was last seen entering the embassy on October the 2nd. Turkish officials ha...
Afghans are planning to vote in the October 20 parliamentary elections. Afghans across the war-torn country explain why their vote matters. Nearly nine million people have registered to vote in Afghanistan’s upcoming elections. Many say they a...
Palestine’s Foreign Minister, Riyad Al-Maliki has cautioned against Australia’s announcement that it may consider recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In a statement Al-Maliki said Australia’s decision just like that of...
Syrian flags fluttered in Quneitra and the Israeli occupied Golan Heights as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force returned after leaving in 2014. The Quneitra crossing is the only cr...
Inspired by South Africa’s investigation into the apartheid era, Gambia has launched its own truth commission to investigate crime under ousted dictator Yahya Jammeh. The tiny West African state has sworn in an 11-member commission, taske...
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has denied prior knowledge of financial misconduct at the VBS Mutual Bank. Ramaphosa dismissed reports that he failed to act and was forewarned about massive fraud at VBS months before it collapsed earl...
South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper has admitted to publishing "tainted" scoops during Jacob Zuma’s presidency, which turned out to be largely false, but insisted it was the victim of political manipulation. Sunday Times editor Bongani...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has handed over land back to the Mkhwanazi community in KwaZulu Natal. At the ceremony held yesterday, Ramaphosa announced that the 4,500 hectare land handover, would be the first of a number of land claims that they aim to...
Lara Alqasem, 22, who flew into Israel on Oct. 22nd on a study visa but refused entry has filed an appeal with Israel’s top court to challenge the order. Israel barred Alqasem’s entry under a law against pro-Palestinian activists who cal...
The United States’ efforts at mediation talks between leaders of the Taliban and the Afghanistan government to negotiate a peaceful solution to the 17-year civil war will have limited results on the perceived peace process as the two sides say...
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has warned it would retaliate against any sanctions imposed on the kingdom, as the Riyadh stock market plunged.US President Donald Trump has threatened the kingdom with "severe punishment" if Khashoggi, who has been critical...
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called on Saudi Arabia to “cooperate fully” with investigations surrounding the disappearance of journalist, Jamal Khashoggi who disappeared on Oct. 2nd after he was seen entering the Sau...
Turkey has come under enormous pressure to ensure that all Syrian armed opposition forces evacuate from the demilitarized zone in the province of Idlib as per agreement reached between Ankara and Moscow last month. According to statistics, there are...
The United States will confront Tehran at the UN's top court today over billions in frozen assets. Iran had hauled Washington before the International Court of Justice to oppose a US Supreme Court ruling that two billion dollars should go to vi...
The United Nations has warned that transformation of society and the world economy, is essential to avoid global climate chaos, as time is running out to avert disaster. The Earth's surface has warmed one degree Celsius. This is enough to lift ocean...
South African members of the NGO Gift of the Givers, have arrived in the disaster-struck Palu in Indonesia to assist. The number of people believed missing from the quake and tsunami has soared to 5,000. Indonesia's disaster agency says they recover...
Politicians, kings and religious leaders gathered at the Moses Mabhida stadium to commemorate the annual Umkhosi weLembe event, which is also known as the Imbizo on land in Durban, KwaZulu Natal. Watch ITV News at 8pm & 10pm for the full story.
Residents of informal settlements in KwaZulu Natal had gathered in Meyville to hand over a memorandum of grievances, to the office of the MED for human settlements and public works, Ravi Pillay. Watch ITV News at 8pm and 10pm for the rest of the sto...
Eight suspects have been arrested in Westbury for murder and dealing in drugs. The arrests follow the Minister of Police deployment of the TRT and NIU in Westbury to stabilize the area for as long as the community wants them. The suspects appeared i...
The International Solar Alliance Summit (ISA) – to harness solar energy has begun in India. The ISA, launched by Modi and then French president Francois Hollande in 2015 and based in India, is an alliance of countries that receive plenti...
Indonesia’s quake-tsunami, has shocked and traumatized many children. As supplies trickle into shattered communities, many children have been separated from their families with at least 600,000 children affected by the quake. Save the Children...
Climate change is being felt in certain parts of the world with increased flooding, rapid erosion impacting millions of lives. Bangladeshis are finding ways to adapt - including creating "floating schools" so children are still able to get an educat...
\ Malaysia's former prime minister’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, has been charged with money laundering and tax evasion linked to a multi-billion-dollar scandal that helped bring down his government. The 66 year old has pleaded not guilty, at the same...
Police Minister Bheki Cele has returned to Westbury to address its community and has deployed over one hundred officers from the Tactical Response Team and National Intervention Unit. Cele has challenged gangsters in Westbury saying that they will c...
Japan has launched a new observation robot towards an asteroid to pursue more information about the origins of the solar system. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) could not confirm as to how long it would take for the robot's safe landin...
Indonesia’s military are racing against time to deliver aid packages to residents of Sulawesi island after the devastating earthquake and tsunami five days ago. As five days come to pass after the 7.4 magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami str...
Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has vowed to push ahead with land redistribution. At a national conference in Windhoek to discuss new land policy, President Geingob said many Namibians were driven off their land and that "careful conside...
Candidates for Cameroon’s long awaited elections are ready to-do battle on October the 7th, amid tensions between the English and French speaking provinces. The election is made much more complex by the country’s falling exports of...
Ethiopia is looking to play an active role in the first China International Import Expo, in Shanghai where buyers and investors are expected to converge. The leading African airliner, the Ethiopian Airlines, and a series of agricultural products inc...
Export week has been launched in KZN. This well-known KZN export event has in the past seven years been hailed as a crucial platform to grow trade and export. Watch ITV News at 8pm and 10pm for more information about this story.
Johannesburg’s William Nicol Drive will be renamed after struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. At the launch of Transport Month, Gauteng’s Transport MEC Ismail Vadi said that up to 10 roads in Gauteng will be renamed. October is...
The Department of Arts and Culture has announced that the name Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, will soon change to Makhanda. The university town will be renamed after a Xhosa warrior and philosopher Makhanda, who fought against colonialism. Accordi...
A ship carrying migrants from Libya, Syria, Palestine and Pakistan, docked in Malta after spending several days on sea. France, Portugal, Spain and Germany struck a deal on last week to take in the migrants. The coast of Libya and the Mediterranean...
U.S. attitude on multilateralism may create problems for U.N. resolutions in the near future. The United States administration has in recent months by-passed the United Nations in taking decisions that may undermine its authority. It has for example...
Meanwhile Indonesian authorities are scrambling to get aid and rescue equipment to Sulawesi following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami which caused waves as high as six meters. Neighbours including Australia, Thailand and China have offered hel...
Mass graves are being readied today for hundreds of victims of the strong 7.5-magnitude Tsunami-quake which hit Palu in Indonesia on Friday. With the death toll already at over 830 and expected to rise further, authorities’ battle to avoid dis...
The Minister of Energy, Jeff Radebe has announced that the adjustment of fuel prices from October 3rd is based on current international factors. The main reasons for the fuel price adjustments is due to the Rand depreciation against the US Dollar. T...
Chaos has hit the streets of Sophiatown in Johannesburg. Residents are protesting against crime and gangsterism in Westbury. According to reports police have been shooting rubber bullets at protestors. Motorists have been warned to avoid Westbury at...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visited Germany yesterday, in what is being seen as an attempt by both Turkey and Germany to improve relations after a series of diplomatic spats. Relations between Turkey and Germany hit rock bottom, over the past t...
South Africa’s retired archbishop Desmond Tutu was hospitalised in Cape Town yesterday for "a series of tests." The Nobel Peace laureate who turns 87 in October, was last admitted to hospital in September 2016 when he underwent minor surgery....
Iran has denied accusations by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu that it was concealing a ‘secret atomic warehouse’ in an effort to develop nuclear weapons. In a statement Tehran’s representative to the U.N. General Assemb...
The unprecedented fuel price increase is expected to be catastrophic for South African road users’ budgets. According to the Automobile Association, petrol is expected to be up by about R1.01 per litre, with diesel spiking by a massive R1....
Cape Town is expected to relax its restrictions on water use further for local residents. Restrictions became tighter in the following two years, until recently water saving and plentiful rains made local dams' water storage rise significantly....
Students from WITS University, University of Johannesburg and the Central Johannesburg College, marched to the offices of Herman Mashaba, the mayor of Johannesburg, to hand over a memorandum. The demonstrators, led by the Wits Student Representative...
Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has revealed a number of changes to South Africa’s mining charter. The bill will raise black ownership of mining companies from 26 percent to 30 percent. On employment, the Charter states that 50% of b...
The United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi has expressed concerns about vulnerable refugees especially, Afghans being stigmatised after a series of attacks in Europe. Grandi urged European leaders not to stigmatise migrants and refugees and to handle these situations with caution.
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