DC Council passes emergency crime bill amid sharp rise in violent crimes

The D.C. Council on Tuesday passed an emergency crime bill aimed at giving judges more leeway as the city grapples with a sharp rise in violent crimes. Ahead of the vote, Council of the District of Columbia Chair Phil Mendelson said, “You can get away with murder in this city.” The statement was a notable […]

Kurt Volker to Newsmax: NATO Must Tell Putin He Won’t Win War

Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO in the George W. Bush administration, told Newsmax on Tuesday that the only way to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from expanding beyond Ukraine in eastern Europe is for the military alliance to make sure he knows Ukraine…

Atlanta in Mix for 2025 All-Star Game After ’21 Contest Was Pulled

Atlanta is one of the cities under consideration for the 2025 All-Star Game.That is significant because the city lost the 2021 Midsummer Classic when Major League Baseball pulled the game amid backlash to changes in Georgia’s voting laws.But now commissioner Rob Manfred…

DNA bungling delays justice for family of slain mother

Read More Simbongile Mancotywa, of Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape, was murdered on 9 May 2020. Her family and a police source say that her partner, the father of her two children, handed himself over to the police. According to the victim’s brother, she had been shot 15 times. Her partner was charged with murder […]

South African manufacturing 2.5% higher than in May last year

Read More Manufacturing output increased by 2.5% year-on-year in May, according to data from Statistics South Africa published on Tuesday.  This is the second successive annual gain in industrial activity after factory output rose by 3.6% in April 2023 compared with the same month in 2022. The data is in line with a forecast from […]

Setting the record straight about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

Read More I’ve been working on human rights in Russia for more than half my life. My knowledge of Africa is regrettably lacking — but this unfortunate fact makes me think that, likewise, many people in Africa might not have been closely following the developments in Russia prior to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.  It […]