South Africa's Justice Minister Ronald Lamola said the government was notified on Thursday evening of a Dubai court decision not to allow for the extradition of business tycoons Atul and Rajesh Gupta. The Guptas are alleged to have colluded with former president Jacob Zuma to siphon off state assets from...
Brothers held in UAE on graft charges face extradition to S.Africa
Two Indian-born brothers who allegedly wove a web of corruption across South Africa have been arrested in Dubai and face extradition, in a landmark step in Pretoria's anti-graft fight. By one estimate, several billion dollars were lost to the South African economy as a result of their activities.
Boeing 707 takes off as a restaurant in West Bank
Palestinian workers in the Israel-occupied West Bank are putting the final touches on a decommissioned Boeing 707 aircraft to ready it for a new kind of takeoff: as a restaurant. Its enterprising owners, 60-year-old twin brothers Ata and Khamis al-Sairafi, expect to welcome their first customers within weeks at the...
