Politics

Photo: Pixabay A former Camps Bay, Cape Town top cop has been arrested on charges of indecent assault and the possession of child pornography after his son’s shocking revelations of alleged sexual and physical abuse since he was six years old. For 30 years Zbiegniew Andrzej Weclaw served as a SAPS member, and for 21 of those years, he was station commander of Camps Bay police station. He was considered a dedicated police officer and an upstanding citizen in the community. For Weclaw’s son Daniel, however, Zbiegniew was a monster who for more than 20 years tormented him and abused him so much he tried to take his own life. SHOCKING REVELATIONS OF FORMER CAMPS BAY COP’S ABUSE Daniel Weclaw poured out his heart in a Facebook post, detailing the years of abuse (which his father filmed) an...

Ms Parti (left) worked for Mr Liew Mun Leong (right) for several years She was an Indonesian domestic helper who earned S$600 (£345) a month working for an extremely wealthy Singaporean family. He was her employer, a titan of Singapore's business establishment and the chairman of some of the country's biggest companies. One day, his family accused her of stealing from them. They reported her to the police - triggering what would become a high-profile court case that would grip the country with its accusations of pilfered luxury handbags, a DVD player, and even claims of cross-dressing. Earlier this month, Parti Liyani was finally acquitted. "I'm so glad I'm finally free," she told reporters through an interpreter. "I've been fighting for four years." But her case has prompted questi...

A woman passes a package to a man behind a makeshift barricade, blocking off a street to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease in Yangon By Shoon Naing YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar has quarantined tens of thousands of people to prevent a coronavirus outbreak from overwhelming its fragile healthcare system but public health experts and doctors say the strategy is on the brink of collapse as infections surge. The Southeast Asian nation is housing more than 45,000 people, including COVID-19 patients as well as those yet to be tested, their close contacts and returning migrant workers, in buildings from schools and monasteries to government offices and tower blocks, mostly run by volunteers. Even those with no symptoms or mild symptoms are hospitalised or quarantined, part of an...

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, at U.N. Headquarters in New York. The U.N.'s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with pre-recorded speeches from some of the planet's biggest powers, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic that will likely be a dominant theme at their video gathering this year. (Eskinder Debebe/UN via AP) BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — He's not recognized as a head of state by the country he'd be visiting. His diplomatic immunity is granted by the United Nations, not an unfriendly American administration that could decide to pick him up on drug-trafficking charges if he sets foot in the United States. Then there’s...

An Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel stands guard at a checkpoint along a highway leading to Ladakh, at Gagangeer in Kashmir's Ganderbal district [File: Danish Ismail/Reuters] China and India have agreed to stop deploying more troops to their contested border and avoid any action that might complicate the tense situation there. Senior military officials from both countries met on Monday and exchanged ideas on their contested contested Himalayan border in Ladakh, Chinese defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian said on Tuesday. A joint press release said both sides had agreed to “avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments”, and “refrain from unilaterally changing the situation on the ground”. During the meeting it was also discussed that neither side should take any unilatera...