News24 | Spain to expand healthcare access to undocumented migrants
Spain’s left-wing government announced on Tuesday it will expand free healthcare to undocumented migrants, bucking a European trend toward stricter immigration policies.
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News24 | Israel says Iran hacked security cameras
Israel’s cybersecurity directorate said it had identified “dozens of Iranian breaches into security cameras for espionage purposes” since the start of the war in the Middle East, urging the public to be vigilant.
News24 | Zimbabwe cracking down on critics of presidential term extension: HRW
Zimbabwean authorities are using violence and intimidation against opponents of constitutional amendments that would extend the president’s term, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
News24 | Blacklisted Israeli tycoon’s firm pays R490m after DRC graft probe
A former holding company of US-sanctioned Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler will pay R490 million to settle a Dutch corruption probe over mining deals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
News24 | Iran’s Revolutionary Guards demand end to US-Israeli strike, vow to block Middle East oil
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they would not allow “one litre of oil” to be shipped from the Middle East if US and Israeli attacks continue, prompting a warning from US President Donald Trump that the US would hit Iran much harder if it blocked exports from the vital energy-producing region.
News24 | Woman held over shots fired at Rihanna’s LA mansion
A woman alleged to have fired an assault rifle at the luxury Los Angeles home of Rihanna was being held by police on Monday.
News24 | ‘They have nothing left’: Trump hints at end to Iran war, and oil prices fall, stocks jump
Oil prices tanked and equities rallied following a wild day of swings that came after US President Donald Trump said the US-Israel war on Iran would be ending earlier than thought.
News24 | Shrapnel kills man, injures 11 in Israel as Iran launches missile strike
Israel’s first responders said shrapnel killed a man in central Israel as several blasts rocked the area, shortly after the military detected new missile launches from Iran.
News24 | ‘A warning has been issued’: Iran threatens property confiscation for US, Israel support
Iranians living abroad could have property confiscated and face other legal penalties if they express support for the United States and Israel, the Iranian prosecutor general’s office said.
News24 | Singer Rihanna’s LA mansion struck by gunfire: reports
Rihanna’s Los Angeles home was hit by gunfire on Sunday.
News24 | Iran names Mojtaba Khamenei amid Trump threat: ‘He’s not going to last long’
Iran on Monday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei, as supreme leader, signalling that hardliners remain firmly in charge, as the week-old US-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil above $100 a barrel.
News24 | Trump says Iran ‘will be hit very hard’, threatens to expand targets
President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday the United States would hit Iran “very hard” and threatened to expand strikes to include new targets.
News24 | US State dept approves weapons sale to Israel in emergency of Trump govt’s ‘own creation’
The US State Department approved the “emergency” sale of 12 000 bomb casings to Israel on Friday as the countries engage Iran in an escalating Middle East war.
UPDATED: Iran hits US Gulf base in retaliation against attacks on Tehran
US President Donald Trump warned members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to lay down their arms or face ‘certain death’.
US Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs, offering hope to countries such as South Africa
The Trump administration slapped South Africa with a 30% import tariff, effective last August
US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies aged 84, family says
The founder of the Rainbow/PUSH coalition — a US civil rights and social justice organisation — was an outspoken critic of apartheid in South Africa
US strikes on Venezuela, capture of Maduro will make world less secure: analysts
South Africa’s government said the US actions were a ‘a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations, which mandates that all member states refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”
At Hague Group meeting, frustration over failure of global institutions to constrain Israel’s conduct
Speakers described a system in which legal norms are applied selectively, allowing powerful states and their allies to evade accountability
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