Category: Foreign

The publisher of a new book detailing Nelson Mandela’s last days, Penguin Random House, has confirmed the withdrawal of the book after it was condemned by his outraged widow, Graca Machel. The book by Mandela’s physician Vejay Ramlakan was released last week to coincide with the late anti-apartheid leader’s birthday, July 18, which is marked each tear as Mandela Day. It revealed several undignified episodes at the end of Mandela’s life as well as bitter family squabbles over his care and legacy, prompting fury from his widow Graca Machel who…

A jailbreak in South America’s Guyana prison has led to the death of one prison officer while seven others were injured. Authorities said inmates set fire to the facility and four prisoners escape. Chaos broke out at the colonial-era maximum security prison in the capital city of Georgetown after inmates obtained firearms and took control of the facility, with police and fire officials initially unable to enter the compound. Prisoners set the facility ablaze in an effort to distract guards, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan told journalists, calling the escapees…

According to officials, a man opened fire in a busy New York hospital on Friday afternoon, killing a female doctor and wounding six other people before turning his weapon on himself. The shooter was himself a doctor and former employee of the hospital, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio and police chief James O’Neill, who ruled out a connection to terrorism. He entered the building in a white coat with an automatic weapon concealed under his shirt, officials said. The incident occurred at the 1000-bed Bronx-Lebanon hospital just before 3…

Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and travelers from six mainly Muslim countries went into effect late Thursday, after a Supreme Court decision allowed it to go forward following a five-month battle with rights groups. The Trump administration says the temporary ban is necessary to block terrorists from entering the country, but immigrant advocates charge that it illegally singles out Muslims. The 90-day ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and a 120-day ban on refugees, will allow exceptions for people with “close family relationships” in the…

Rachel Tunstill, a 26-year-old mother has allegedly stabbed her newborn daughter to death with a pair of kitchen scissors because she feared having a child would harm her career. She dumped her newborn baby’s body in a bin after allegedly butchering her with scissors 15 times at the flat she shared with boyfriend, Ryan Kelly. Preston Crown Court heard the couple’s daughter Mia Kelly had been born after Tunstill had gone into labour on their toilet while Ryan played on his XBOX. But she told her partner that she was…