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South Africa president improves own house with tax money

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma is being accused of ethical violations after millions of tax payers dollars were used to upgrade his home.

The Public Protector says she wants him to pay some of it back.

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The ANC has been accused of corruption for a long time.  The so called “presidential security improvement”…

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India’s financial capital Mumbai has a new airport terminal with flights scheduled to arrive in the early hours on Wednesday. At a cost of nearly cost nearly $2bn, 1,200 slum dwellers were…

Being the world’s largest democracy does only mean that you are only in words democratic, not in sense of human commitment to the society your needed votes are depended on.

In India, it’s season time for subornation democracy.

Just read this:

Just before…

QATAR: slavery mentality still not gone

World Cup organisers in Qatar have responded to FIFA’s demand for more detail regarding their…

Consumers are being sold drinks with banned flame-retardant additives, pork in beef, and fake cheese, laboratory tests show.

Consumers are being sold food including mozzarella that is less than half real cheese, ham on pizzas that is either poultry or…

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The argument about who can use the word ‘Allah’ continues in Malaysia, as one Catholic church was firebombed last month for writing it on a banner.Malaysia’s Catholic newspaper, the Herald,…

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27 people have been arrested after clashes between rioters and police near Singapores’s city centre. About 400 people took to the streets of the commercial district known as Little India,…

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An Afghan girl, believed to be around the age of 10, wearing a suicide vest has been arrested by police in southern Afghanistan. She was asked to wear the vest by her brother.

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The UK Government has announced a major campaign to help victims who have been subjected to female genital mutilation. The move coincides with a worldwide day for action against FGM, a…

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The Russian authorities need to address a deteriorating situation of widespread and concerted abuse against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and activists. The…

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It has being described as a blow to women’s rights in Afghanistan. A new law has been passed by parliament that will make it harder for victims of domestic abuse to bring their cases to…

Australian navy ‘towed back asylum seekers’

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Italy’s navy rescues more than 1,100 migrants

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The flame’s arrival to the 2014 Winter Games coincides with protests across the world against Russia’s anti-gay laws. Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands went to find out how the gay community in…

Report highlights business-political nexus and corruption’s $162.19bn annual cost to European economies.

Corruption affects all 28 member countries of the European Union and costs their economies about $162.19bn (120bn euros) a year, according to a…

Uganda church rejects anti-gay criticism

Stanley Ntagaali says “homosexual practice is incompatible with scripture” after prelates urge…

A court in Tokyo has ordered a cyclist to pay nearly half a million US dollars in damages to the family of an elderly woman he knocked down and killed.

The 46-year-old was ordered to pay the 47m yen ($459,000; £278.82m) after he ran into the 75-year-old…