Tag: coastal

  • Queen Latifah, grannies join mass anti-AIDS rallies in S.Africa

    US singer and actress Queen Latifah joined a mass anti-AIDS march in the South African city of Durban Saturday, where grandmothers bringing up children orphaned by the disease also took to the streets. Holding up signs that read “I care, do you?”, around a thousand grandmothers walked in a colourful procession to draw attention to…

  • Eight killed in South African orphanage blaze

    Six children and two adults were killed in a fire in an orphanage in South Africa on Thursday, rescue officials said. Emergency service officials said the fire broke out at the Lakehaven Children’s Home in the coastal city of Durban, killing six children aged between eight and 10, a 19-year-old and an older adult. Although…

  • U.S. prosecutors launch review of failed FedEx drug case

    SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a rare internal examination of what went wrong in the prosecution of a controversial drug conspiracy case against delivery service Federal Express , the department's top prosecutor in San Francisco told Reuters. The review plays into a broader debate about how the government prosecutes…