Eight newly promoted station commanders were officially conferred their ranks on Wednesday at the SAPS provincial office in Kimberley. The ceremony was presided over by the provincial commissioner of the SAPS in the Northern Cape, Lieutenant-General Koliswa Otola, and the acting deputy provincial commissioner for Crime Detection and Corporate Services, Major-General Jacques Raymond. Picture: SAPS The post NC top cop appoints eight new station commanders appeared first on DFA.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces competing pressures at home and abroad when he weighs how far to push the operation to defeat Hamas in Rafah that complicates hopes of bringing Israeli hostages home. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening ceremony marking Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust The post Netanyahu weighs risks of Rafah assault as hostage dilemma divides Israelis appeared first on DFA.

Moses Malala, a 34-year-old construction worker who escaped the wreckage of a five-storey building in George, recalled the moment it collapsed and a cloud of dust engulfed him, as rescue efforts continued at the site 48 hours on. 34-year-old construction worker Moses Malala recounted how he emerged unharmed after a building collapsed in George on The post Survivor recounts moment he emerged from deadly George building collapse appeared first on DFA.

Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere – a trait considered essential for any possibility of harbouring life. Well, they finally seem to have located one. But this hellish planet – apparently with a surface of molten rock – offers no hope for habitability. An artist’s concept The post Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere appeared first on DFA.

The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature record, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday. Cracked and dry earth is seen in the wide riverbed of the Loire River near the Anjou-Bretagne bridge in Ancenis-Saint-Gereon, France. File picture: Reuters, The post World’s record-breaking temperature streak extends through April appeared first on DFA.

Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels took the witness stand at Donald Trump’s criminal trial and described in lurid detail her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with the former US president. Adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels. File picture: Reuters, Lucas Jackson By Luc Cohen NEW YORK – Stormy Daniels took the witness stand on The post Stormy Daniels’ testimony at Donald Trump’s trial: Five takeaways appeared first on DFA.

A FedEx Airlines Boeing 767 cargo plane performed a dramatic landing at Istanbul Airport on Wednesday without its front landing gear, a Turkish Transport Ministry official said, adding there were no casualties and authorities had launched an investigation. A general view of a FedEx Airlines Boeing 767 cargo plane that landed at Istanbul Airport on The post Boeing plane makes dramatic landing in Istanbul without front wheels appeared first on DFA.

Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities on Wednesday, causing serious damage at three Soviet-era thermal power plants and blackouts in multiple regions, officials said. Ukrainian servicemen use a searchlight as they search for drones in the sky over the city during a Russian drone and missile strike in Kyiv, The post Russia’s biggest airstrike in weeks piles pressure on Ukraine power grid appeared first on DFA.

Hamas said it was battling Israeli troops on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip’s crowded southern city of Rafah on Wednesday after a US official said Washington had halted a shipment of powerful bombs that Israel could use in a full-scale assault. Palestinians travel in a truck as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched The post US pauses some weapons to Israel as battles rage around Rafah appeared first on DFA.