Cape Town drug bust nets 774kgs of dagga

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 31 May 2016
Police spokesperson Constable Noloyiso Rwexana said the suspect was arrested on the N1, on the Hugueonot Bridge near the toll gate exit on Monday ... -African News Agency (ANA). Disclaimer. This story is pulled directly from the African News Agency wire, and has not been edited by Mail & Guardian staff ... ....

Catch The Firebird on its way to LA

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 31 May 2016
As if there was not already magic enough in the Russian fairytale about the glowing bird, this production combines puppetry and dance ... Choreography is by Jay Pather ... – African News Agency (ANA). Disclaimer. This story is pulled directly from the African News Agency wire, and has not been edited by Mail & Guardian staff ... ....

Police killings should be deemed a national disaster says SAPU

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 31 May 2016
CAPE TOWN, May 31 (ANA) – The South African Policing Union (SAPU) on Tuesday condemned the murder of a police officer in Ritavi, Limpopo ... The merciless killing of our police officials needs the attention of the highest office in the land.” ... – African News Agency (ANA). Disclaimer. This story is pulled directly from the African News Agency wire, and has not been edited by Mail & Guardian staff ... ....

DPRK attempts ballistic missile launch

Edit CNTV 31 May 2016
Begin with breaking news on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea's Yonhap news agency says that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea attempted to fire what's believed to be a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile this morning. But the launch appears to have failed ... ....

Syria civil war: Russia raids on Idlib 'kill civilians'

Edit Al Jazeera 31 May 2016
"The air strikes are the most intensive on Idlib since the beginning of the truce," Rahman told the AFP news agency. "Even though Idlib is not covered by the truce, it had been relatively calm with only intermittent raids." ... Rescue workers were searching for survivors under the rubble of the bombed buildings, the volunteer, who asked to be known only as Majed, told the dpa agency ... Source. Agencies ... ....

Zimbabwe civic society organisations add voices to anti-bond notes chorus

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 31 May 2016
HARARE, May 30 (ANA) – More than 50 civic organisations, church groups and political parties under the banner of the Zimbabwe National Agreement Platform (ZINAP) have called on Zimbabweans to reject the proposed bond notes which the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe said it would launch in August ...African News Agency (ANA) ... This story is pulled directly from the African News Agency wire, and has not been edited by Mail & Guardian staff ... ....

ANC in Amathole District say its leaders are being harassed by the Hawks

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 31 May 2016
PORT ELIZABETH, May 30 (ANA) – The ANC in the Amathole District in the Eastern Cape says the pending arrest of its regional secretary and others was an attempt to disrupt the upcoming local government elections ... Therefore I have nothing to fear,” he said ... – African News Agency (ANA). Disclaimer. This story is pulled directly from the African News Agency wire, and has not been edited by Mail & Guardian staff ... ....

The Latest: Germany investigates alleged groping at festival

Edit Springfield News-Sun 31 May 2016
Darmstadt police told the dpa news agency Tuesday that they had arrested three Pakistani asylum-seekers, ranging in age from 28 to 31, and were searching for two to three more believed to have been involved in the Saturday night incidents ... refugee agency says survivors' accounts indicate that shipwrecks and capsized boats have claimed at ......

Distress signal from EgyptAir flight 804 confirmed by authorities in Cairo and US

Edit The Guardian 31 May 2016
The plane disappeared from radar screens at 2.29am local time and the Bloomberg news agency, quoting Lieutenant Jason Wilson of the NOAA, said an ELT on the plane began transmitting at 2.36am local time ... told Agence France-Presse in Cairo, requesting anonymity ... Two members of the French aviation safety agency BEA are on board the Leplace....

New North Korea missile launch ended in failure: South

Edit Press TV 31 May 2016
The ministry did not speculate on the type of missile, but South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency cited military sources as saying it was a powerful, medium-range Musudan ballistic missile ... released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 2, 2016 shows a missile test of a new-type anti-air guided weapon system....

Parties must focus on Korean Peninsula stability, ministry says

Edit China Daily 31 May 2016
An official at the Republic of Korea's defense ministry told Xinhua news agency on the phone that the DPRK tried to test-fire an unidentified missile at about 5.20 am local time from the Wonsan area on its east coast....

Cessna with engine trouble lands on highway outside Budapest; pair safe

Edit Japan Times 31 May 2016
Hungarian police say a small airplane made an emergency landing on a busy highway on the outskirts of Budapest. No injuries were reported in Monday’s incident and police were directing traffic at the scene on the M1-M7 highway, near several shopping malls. An official from a local airport told state news agency MTI that the appeared first on The Japan Times. > ... ....

South Korea says North Korea missile launch likely failed

Edit The Seattle Times 31 May 2016
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A North Korean missile launch likely failed on Tuesday, according to South Korea’s military, the latest in a string of high-profile failures that tempers somewhat recent worries that Pyongyang was pushing quickly toward its goal of a nuclear-tipped missile that can reach America’s mainland. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said […]> ... ....
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