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Blinken unveils US draft resolution for immediate Gaza ceasefire
The United States has circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for an ‘immediate ceasefire linked to the release of hostages’ in the Gaza Strip, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa urges immediate ceasefire and humanitarian action in Israel-Palestine conflict
The bombardment of Hamas-ruled Gaza continued overnight, with residents saying it was the heaviest pounding yet in nine days of conflict.
Curfews imposed after 22 dead in night of violence in north Honduras
Heavily armed men opened fire on Saturday night in a billiards hall at a neighbourhood in the northern manufacturing city of Choloma, killing 11 people and seriously wounding three more
Russia Embassy denies US ambassador claims, says SA weapons cannot match Russia’s calibre
It also questioned how, if Brigety’s accusations were true, such a ‘minuscule’ amount of arms and ammunition would influence the situation on the battlefield
Up to 34 000 prisoners violated parole conditions in the last three years - Department of Justice
The cases reported of parole violations were from 2020 to January this year.
Journalist and former political prisoner Rafiq Rohan dies
He was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela and was the last prisoner to occupy Mandela’s old cell at Robben Island.
US basketball star Brittney Griner freed from Russia, swopped for notorious arms dealer
Griner, 32, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and star of the Women's National Basketball Association's Phoenix Mercury, was arrested on February 17 at a Moscow airport after vape cartridges containing cannabis oil, which is banned in Russia, were found in her luggage.
Remembering Winnie Madikizela Mandela: A tribute by her granddaughters
“Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was our grandmother, but she could also be our mother, a freedom fighter, and the Mother of the Nation, all at the same time. ”
WATCH: A look inside the world’s most luxurious prison
Home to drug smugglers, rapists and murderers, Norway’s Halden Prison, which is situated on the border with Sweden, is a facility that gives inmates apartment-style prisons and allows them to lock themselves in at night.