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'Riots' in Zamdela, just south of Sasolburg in South Africa, have led to the successful halting of controversial plans to merge the municipality with that of Ngwathe.

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Richard Baloyi, confirmed that the plans had been shelved for now, following the unrest. He reportedly spoke with leaders of the Zamdela residents and negotiated an end to the violence.

Local residents have been protesting and 'rioting' since Sunday over the merger plans. Shops have been looted, cars set on fire, journalists allegedly attacked, and the...

On Saturday hundreds of Greece's Pakistani community, and Greek protesters gathered outside the City Hall to pay their respects and say prayers for 27-year-old Shehzad Luqman, the latest victim of brutal racist attacks in the country.

Luqman died on Thursday as a result of a knife attack. According to reports two Greek men in their 20s have been charged with the murder. They have admitted carrying out the killing but said their attack was the result of an unintended escalation of a heated argument that started when Luqman's bicycle blocked the motorbike they were riding on. However...

Police have killed a gunman who abducted a female student on the Central Michigan University campus. According to alerts sent out on the campus at 12.20 am on thursday morning, a young female student was approached at gunpoint by a white male described as being between 20 and 30 years old.

It has been reported that the man abducted and sexually assaulted the student in his car packed with gas cans before he said he would murder her. The victim jumped from the moving car in order to escape. The Central Michigan Sheriff has stated that if she had not jumped from the car she would...

Approximately 10,000 people have been displaced after severe flooding hit the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. It is thought that two people have been killed by the adverse weather.

East Jakarta was hit the hardest with seven out of its 10 subdistricts inundated with water, with floods reaching up to three-meters high.

The head of the Banten office of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), Suyadi Wiraatmadja, said floods had displaced more than 10,000 people from their homes, although most of them had returned to their homes now that floods were receding.

The...