The US army has confirmed the presence of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group in Mali, which the African nation’s government has denied amid increasingly strained relations with the West.

We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today.

Five lions and one tiger, all born in Ukraine, were rescued from captivity and released at a sanctuary in South Africa.

The United States raised the alarm Tuesday on a potentially imminent Russian attack against Ukraine, ahead of a whirlwind diplomatic mission by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Russian troops arrived in Belarus on Tuesday for snap military drills, as Moscow hosted Germany’s foreign minister for the latest talks over fears of an invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine said Wednesday one of its soldiers had been killed in fighting with pro-Moscow separatists on the eve of talks between NATO and Russia in Brussels over the conflict.

The quarter-final line-up at Euro 2020 has been confirmed following the completion of the final last-16 ties on Tuesday.

Follow Netherlands vs Ukraine in UEFA EURO 2020 Group C taking place in Amsterdam on Sunday 13 June at 21:00.

Netherlands vs Ukraine in UEFA EURO 2020 Group C will take place in Amsterdam on Sunday 13 June at 21:00.

The five neglected lion cubs rescued from Ukraine in 2019 have finally reached their forever home in the Western Cape.

The airline helped to relocate seven lions that have lived in captivity for several years in the Ukraine to South Africa where they will live out the rest of their lives in the wild.

Ukraine said on Tuesday 14 April 2020 that only small fires remained in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, with rain coming to the rescue in the battle against a huge blaze.

Life is not all that peachy for US President Donald Trump following explosive allegations by his former national security adviser John Bolton.

This crash comes just hours after Iran fired retaliatory missiles at an American base in Iraq.

Trump was impeached Wednesday over a telephone conversation where he pressured Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his potential White House challenger in 2020, the veteran Democrat Joe Biden.

Here’s your daily dose of feel-good news. These lions were facing a cruel end to their lives, before a campaign to rescue them from Ukraine was launched.

Big Seven Travel recently surveyed a sample of their social audience to get an insight into where you’ll find the world’s most beautiful people and SA came in sixth on the list!

Russian forces seized three of Kiev’s ships off the coast of Crimea on Sunday and captured 24 Ukrainian sailors.

Well well well…

Rephotography means taking a photo of a scene that has already been photographed some time ago. The result? Seeing how the world has changed over time:

I was sitting in a bar drinking vodka in Kiev when I heard the words ‘mad South African’.

And we’re not just talking gelato and escargot (although you should keep those on your list!)

The crisis in the Crimea may be thousands of miles away from South African shores but is prone to affect the local economy nonetheless