Giorno: 1 Luglio 2023

ANCYL leader cautions ANC about confusing Russia with USSR

Read More ANCYL national youth task team deputy convenor, Fasiha Hassan. Photo: Twitter As South Africa prepares to host the Brics summit in August, the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) is hoping to agitate for a Brics youth secretariat.  Delivering the political overview at the long awaited ANCYL conference on Saturday, the league’s national youth task […]

Australia stroll on towards victory to leave England needing Ashes miracle

Read More After reaping the rewards of a bouncer barrage that was almost medieval in its delivery, England were tasked with producing an Ashes miracle in this second Test. They bowled Australia out by tea on the fourth day through an exclusive diet of bouncers and had their equation: a target of 371 runs in […]

Euclid telescope lifts off in search of the secrets of dark universe

Read More A European-built orbital satellite was launched into space on Saturday from Florida on a mission to shed new light on dark energy and dark matter, the mysterious cosmic forces scientists say account for 95% of the known universe. The Euclid telescope, named for the ancient Greek mathematician known as the “father of geometry”, […]

France: teen shot by police given private funeral as crisis grips government

Read More The 17-year-old boy shot dead by a police officer was buried on Saturday as the French government braced for further protests after the worst violence for 18 years. Friends and family attended a private funeral at Nanterre, where Nahel Merzouk was killed on Tuesday after being stopped by two motorcycle patrol police. A […]

Revealed: record 170,000 staff leave NHS in England as stress and workload take toll

Read More Nearly 170,000 workers left their jobs in the NHS in England last year, in a record exodus of staff struggling to cope with some of the worst pressures ever seen in the country’s health system, the Observer can reveal. More than 41,000 nurses were among those who left their jobs in NHS hospitals […]

Exclusive: UK water giants recruit top staff from regulator Ofwat

Read More Two-thirds of England’s biggest water companies employ key executives who had previously worked at the watchdog tasked with regulating them, the Observer can reveal. Cathryn Ross, the new interim joint chief executive of Thames Water and a former head of watchdog Ofwat, is one of several ex-employees working for water companies in senior […]

Wagner boss Prigozhin shutters his ‘Patriot Media’ operations

The head of the Wagner mercenary force has pulled the plug on his Russian media holdings. Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin shut down The Patriot, his Russian media group, according reports first published Friday. The Patriot oversaw dozens of separate media outlets and publications, according to The Moscow Times. The Patriot’s operations have been stalled […]

At least 51 killed in horrifying wreck in Kenya, 32 injured, authorities and Red Cross say

A truck collided with multiple vehicles and market traders in western Kenya, resulting in the tragic death of at least 51 people, police said. Dozens more were injured and hospitalized in the horrific accident, which took place Friday evening in an area notorious for vehicle crashes near the Rift Valley town of Londiani, about 125 […]

Macron dances at Elton John concert as France burns amid ongoing violence

New video posted to social media caught French President Emmanuel Macron enjoying the Elton John concert in Paris on Thursday while the city and the country witnessed another night of violent protests over a fatal police shooting. The video, shot at the Accor Arena where Elton John played for three nights as part of his […]

French riots: What to know as hundreds of police injured, thousands arrested following deadly shooting

Riots have gripped the suburbs of Paris and quickly spread to other towns and cities across France following the death of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop, but how did the situation spiral so far out of control? “What’s happening there is the consequence of a failure to integrate the country’s Muslim immigrant population,” Alan […]