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MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — Thousands of mine workers have gathered around a rocky hill to mark the anniversary of the deadliest protest in South Africa in decades.

Miners say those conditions have not improved since the shooting shocked South Africa and again exposed the tensions between mining companies and black workers who are often migrants. Squalid living conditions without sewer systems or other basic services are a problem for mine workers across South Africa, whose economy was built on the mining industry.

The Courier-Journal (http://cjky.it/2bb5BzV ) reports that officials with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services announced on Monday that the pay raises will take effect Sept. 16. Secretary of the cabinet Vickie Yates Brown Glisson says the salary increases will be covered with $4.8 million that Gov. Matt Bevin had included in the state's two-year budget.

FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — Newly unsealed court documents say an Iranian man who came to Maine as a refugee in 2009 was fighting for the Islamic State group when he was killed last year in Lebanon. Fazeli came under FBI investigation for his connection to Islamic State shortly after leaving his job at Dubai Auto in Portland to fly to Turkey in August 2013.

The e-toll exemptions and rebates that have been gazetted by Transport Minister Dipuo Peters have been described as too cumbersome by an organisation representing disabled people.

No, the Vikings don’t look at Thursday’s exhibition in Seattle as “a revenge game.” It’s a preseason game that won’t count in the standings. But offensive coordinator Norv Turner and the coaching staff do see this upcoming exhibition as a valuable teaching tool for young players about the week-to-week preparation that goes on in the regular season. “Every week is a whole different deal,” Turner said. “So our guys are going from one style of defense right now and in four days playing a totally different style of defense. Читать дальше...

Heather Dubrow couldn't hide her feelings following The Real Housewives of Orange County's latest dinner party from hell. The actress and five-season veteran of the Bravo reality series...

An Istanbul court on Tuesday ordered the temporarily closure of the pro-Kurdish daily newspaper Ozgur Gundem, Hurriyet newspaper reported.

Call it a case of selective memory loss, but former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, promoting Donald Trump’s national security plan, said Monday in the “eight years before (President Barack) Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States,” The Associated Press reported. Giuliani, it seems, forgot during his term on Sept. 11, 2001, the terrorist attacks on the U.S. took place. With then-President George W. Bush largely unseen, he became the face of American grief and determination. Читать дальше...

Jude Law's aspiring model daughter Iris Law landed her first-ever style spread in 'Teen Vogue' — see her fashion glossy debut here!

Jude Law's aspiring model daughter Iris Law landed her first-ever style spread in 'Teen Vogue' — see her fashion glossy debut here!

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) has raised its long-term corporate credit rating on Tata Motors to a better grade with less vulnerability of non payment based on the better performance of its British-arm Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

Bill Morrow doesn't need gunship diplomacy to fund the NBN, he's got a yacht.

Another eight parishes have been added to Louisiana's federal disaster declaration, boosting the number of parishes available for federal aid to 12. Parishes named in the federal disaster declaration were East Baton Rouge, Livingston, St. Helena and Tangipahoa parishes. Steele remained upbeat, calling it a "good day" because the parish hasn't seen any storm-related deaths and the rescues are no longer people in their attics, but people who are running low on supplies in flooded areas. Strain says... Читать дальше...

Een 15-jarig meisje is door de Rechtbank Limburg onder andere veroordeeld tot acht maanden jeugddetentie omdat het meisje vorig jaar voorbereidingen trof voor aansluiting bij Islamitische Staat.

Food-stamp enrollment in the U.S. is declining from record levels, in part because some states are ending benefits earlier than they have to. Seven states, all led by Republicans, have … Click to Continue »

Florida court backs state's largest school voucher program (AP) — An appeals court says Florida's teacher union has no legal right to challenge the state's largest private school voucher program.

LENOIR, N.C. — Police say one man was fatally shot in an officer-involved shooting at a Walmart in northwest North Carolina. Two others are in custody, police in Lenoir say. Police Chief Scott Brown said that 32-year-old Carl Marcus Nivins fired at police before one of the officers returned fire, killing him. Brown said officers

The global economy is ready to absorb a rise in U.S. interest rates, Reserve Bank of Australia Gov. Glenn Stevens says, despite the Federal Reserve’s calls for patience as it weighs an uncertain growth outlook and recent market convulsions.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Het Nederlands handbalteam heeft zich op de Olympische Spelen gekwalificeerd voor de halve finales. Het team met Martine Smeets uit Geesteren in de gelederen versloeg gastland Brazilië met 32-23.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- The UPI/CVoter daily presidential tracking poll released Tuesday shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 5.8 percentage points.

Nicola Adams guarantees herself another Olympic medal with a hard-fought victory over Ukraine's Tetyana Kob.

Bisi Alimi and his finace, Anthony, share pictures of their vacation in Italy. Bisi Alimi is an outspoken gay Nigerian who is an activist for gay rights. He and his husband-to-be are vacationing in Venice, Italy and Bisi posted pictures of the pair vacationing. READ ALSO: See what popular Nigerian gay was spotted doing with famous […]