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Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe ASSASSINATED at political event

Floods
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Ramaphosa urges Good Friday prayers for KwaZulu-Natal flood victims

Ukraine Russia Bucha
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Moscow accuses Ukraine of ‘staging’ new footage of dead civilians

Shinzo Abe Japanese
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Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe ASSASSINATED at political event

Floods
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Ramaphosa urges Good Friday prayers for KwaZulu-Natal flood victims

Ukraine Russia Bucha
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Moscow accuses Ukraine of ‘staging’ new footage of dead civilians

Joe Biden russia ukraine
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Breaking: US bans Russian oil imports over Ukraine invasion – Biden

By AFP08-03-2022 18:49

President Joe Biden announced a ban on US imports of Russian oil on Tuesday. The most far-reaching action yet.

Russia Ukraine
World News

Russia’s war in Ukraine: Latest developments

By AFP07-03-2022 18:43

The UN says 1.7 million people have fled Ukraine, making it the fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II.

ukraine
World News

Ukraine parades captured Russian soldiers for cameras

By AFP07-03-2022 18:19

The Ukrainian military has paraded captured Russian soldiers before the media and made them recite repentances for their invasion, prompting the Red Cross to warn prisoners must not be mistreated.

Ukraine cease fire Russia
World News

China open to mediating war, says friendship with Russia ‘rock-solid’

By AFP07-03-2022 10:26

China indicated it was ‘willing to work with the international community to carry out necessary mediation, when necessary.’

Ukraine
World News

Kyiv, Moscow agree on evacuation corridors in Ukraine war

By AFP03-03-2022 20:23

‘The second round of talks is over. Unfortunately, Ukraine does not have the results it needs yet. There are decisions only on the organisation of humanitarian corridors.’

SA students Ukraine
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Foreign students stuck at Ukraine border complain of racism

By AFP01-03-2022 23:18

“You can see fine well what separates them from us,” a young Nigerian added, bitterly. “We’re black, that’s what it is.”

south sudan
Africa News

Amnesty: South Sudan violence could amount to ‘war crimes’

By Agence France-Presse09-12-2021 15:33

Death, destruction and division as fighters from both sides subjected civilians to ‘unimaginable violence’ in South Sudan.

‘Chocolate islands’ cocoa prod
Food & Wine

‘Chocolate islands’ cocoa producers target luxury market

By Agence France-Presse08-12-2021 18:19

Chocolate islands, once the world’s leading cocoa producers, are now turning to Europe’s market to regain position in the chocolate industry.

Ethiopia famine: UN reports ‘u
Africa News

Ethiopia famine: UN reports ‘unprecedented’ malnutrition in Tigray

By Agence France-Presse01-10-2021 12:15

Tigray itself is receiving only about 10% of the aid it needs. In July the UN warned that 400 000 people “crossed the threshold into famine”.

Animal Jabs: Finland to start
World News

Animal Jabs: Finland to start giving COVID vaccine to minks

By Agence France-Presse01-10-2021 11:36

Minks are bred for their fur and have been found at particular risk of contracting COVID-19 and transmitting the virus to humans.

Lego posts record profit, turn
Lifestyle

Lego posts record profit, turnover as stores reopen

By AFP28-09-2021 16:03

The company has in recent years moved strongly into areas such as video games, movies, cartoons and Legoland amusement parks

Hot to trot: Shetland ponies p
UK News

Hot to trot: Shetland ponies prove popular during the pandemic

By AFP28-09-2021 15:03

While demand for Shetland ponies has fluctuated over the last 12 months, prices in 2020 hit records of more than £3,000 for one of the tiny horses.

Vote on breakaway region as Et
Africa News

Vote on breakaway region as Ethiopia faces tests to unity

By AFP28-09-2021 14:05

Kaffa’s leaders have a plan to fix it; a referendum scheduled for Thursday that, if successful, would carve out a new South West region.

Art flourishes on the walls of
Art and Artists

Art flourishes on the walls of Morocco: Street artists celebrated

By AFP28-09-2021 13:46

Every year, the scene is growing, with new artists contributing to a collective wall, just as Lhamzi and Droby started out.

DR Congo rebel jailed for life
Africa News

DR Congo rebel jailed for life for war crimes and environmental harm

By AFP22-09-2021 17:06

A military tribunal set up on the edge of the sprawling Kahuzi-Biega National Park in South Kivu province convicted Chance Mihonya.

Rare rhino horns go up in flam
World News

Rare rhino horns go up in flames in India anti-poaching campaign

By AFP22-09-2021 16:18

Nearly 2 500 rare rhino horns were destroyed in the first ceremony of its kind in northeastern India as part of an anti-poaching drive.

Trump sues niece, New York Tim
World News

Trump sues niece, New York Times over Pulitzer-winning tax story

By AFP22-09-2021 14:25

Former US President Donald Trump filed a $100 million lawsuit against his estranged niece Mary Trump and The New York Times.

Elmarie Myburgh
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Elmarie Myburgh: SA’s only criminal profiler battles crime tidal wave

By AFP22-09-2021 13:46

“Compared to other countries, like let’s say Norway or Sweden, we have more murders in Pretoria on a Saturday than they have over the whole year,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Elmarie Myburgh, the only criminal profiler in the SAPS.

‘This is our homeland’: Women
World News

‘This is our homeland’: Women plead for basic rights in Afghanistan

By AFP22-09-2021 13:17

‘I want to fight and regain the rights that they took from us. We don’t need to go to another country. This is our homeland.’

Libya parliament withdraws con
Africa News

Libya parliament withdraws confidence from unity government

By AFP21-09-2021 17:59

Libya’s parliament, on Tuesday, passed a no-confidence vote in the war-scarred country’s unity government.

Egypt’s first post-Mubarak rul
Africa News

Egypt’s first post-Mubarak ruler, Tantawi, dies aged 85

By AFP21-09-2021 12:25

Veteran of Egypt’s wars and politics, Tantawi had served as Mubarak’s defence minister and chairman of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces.

covid-19 vaccine rollout
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UK health chiefs recommend COVID-19 jabs for 12-15 year-olds

By AFP13-09-2021 18:32

All children aged between 12 and 15 years should be offered but not required to take vaccinations against coronavirus, the chief medical officers who advise the UK’s four governments, said on Monday.

Belmondo
Lifestyle

Belmondo, French film’s handsome devil, dies at 88

By AFP06-09-2021 18:08

With his devil-may-care charm, Jean-Paul Belmondo, who has died aged 88, was the poster boy of the New Wave, France’s James Dean and Humphrey Bogart rolled into one irresistible man.

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World News

Germany picks through rubble after deadly floods leave 150 dead, dozens missing

By AFP17-07-2021 12:37

The western parts of Germany have been the most affected by the historic floods that also caused destruction in Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland.

Peter R de Vries
World News

Dutch crime reporter ‘fighting for his life’ after Amsterdam shooting

By AFP07-07-2021 10:38

Prominent Dutch crime journalist Peter R de Vries was shot at least five times after exiting a television studio in Amsterdam on Tuesday night.

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