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Mathipa familyLt Col Frans Mathipa was a respected detective and father of five Senior police detective Frans Mathipa had been fighting for four months to gain access to a crucial piece of information in the case he was working on. Finally, he was told, it was going to come his way.But he feared his pursuit of it could cost him his life.Two days later, his car was found overturned – he had been shot dead while driving.Now seven members of South Africa’s special forces, and one military police officer, have been charged with murdering Lt Col Mathipa, a highly respected…
BBCA tribute to Dobby sits above National Trust-run Freshwater West beachHarry Potter fans succeeded in diverting a multimillion-pound power link between the UK and Ireland after they complained it would disturb a “memorial” to Dobby the House Elf.The £430m Greenlink interconnector links the National Grid to Ireland via 125-mile cable between County Wexford and Freshwater West, a beach in Pembrokeshire where the death of fictional character Dobby was filmed in the Potter films.Project manager Simon Ludlam told the Energy Revolution podcast the cable was originally “going to go straight through” the tribute, before fans began leaving his firm “hundreds of…
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Getty ImagesThe operator of a boat that overturned near the Statue of Liberty, killing a woman and a baby, has been arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, New York police said.Officials said a large search and rescue operation was launched after the incident near New York Harbour on Saturday night. Twelve people who were initially rescued from the water are all reported to be in stable condition.New York police divers later found a 27-year-old woman and a five-month-old girl, who were transported to a nearby hospital where they later died. The names of passengers and the specific cause of the…
GoogleTwo drones were spotted over a military base in western Germany just days after an explosive-laden device was found at Leipzig airport.Germany’s armed forces (Bundeswehr) confirmed they were seen on Thursday evening at a base in Mechernich, near Bonn, reportedly housing components for US-made Patriot air-defence systems.A spokeswoman for the Bundeswehr Joint Force Command said military police were deployed to the site before the matter was handed over to local police.It is the latest instance of drones being spotted near military bases or airports in European nations supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia, on which suspicion has fallen. Moscow…
Getty ImagesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected US President Donald Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza, stating that no military pull-out will happen until Hamas is “genuinely” disarmed.Trump’s Board of Peace said last month it had reached an agreement for the “complete disarmament” of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza.But Hamas said handing over its heavy weapons was contingent on Israel ending “all forms of aggression” and withdrawing its forces from Gaza.Israel has continued to carry out strikes on Gaza since agreeing to an initial ceasefire in the territory last October.The Israeli military “will not carry out any withdrawal…
LIVESuspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan due to land in Dublin following extraditionHe was arrested in Dubai in April; the Kinahan cartel has spent decades trafficking tonnes of drugs and firearms, according to the UK’s National Crime Agency.
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