Ukraine war: How Western aeroplanes ae falling apart in Russia as sanctions against Moscow bite
An Airbus A320-232 with the tail number YU-APH made its first flight on December 13, 2005. Since then, the aircraft has clocked millions of miles, flying routes for Air Deccan, Kingfisher Airlines, Bingo Airways, and Syphax Airlines before being taken over by Air Serbia, the Eastern European country’s national flag...
English Premier Leagues top 10 teams that splashed big bucks to acquire mediocrity
Manchester United spent £140 million to go from fourth to fifth and crash out of the Champions League at the group stage while playing the most turgid football imaginable under Louis van Gaal. If the previous summer’s acquisition of Angel Di Maria for £67 million marked the start of United’s...
The rich also cry: Moneyed Man United summer transfer spurges ranks it top of 10 EPL wasteful spenders
t’s a good one this, because it’s both an absurd summer of spaffing that in textbook fashion contributed to a manager failing to see out the year but also produced a season where one of those overpriced signings scored the winning goal in the Champions League final. Classic slice of...
Witness recalls how ex-US president Trump tried to force his bodyguards to take him to Capitol Hill to join rioters
Former US President Donald Trump wanted to join the January 6 rioters at the Capitol, but was restrained by his security detail, a former aide testified on Tuesday. Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump’s then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Trump tried to grab the steering wheel...
South African president calls for ‘urgent reforms’ at UN Security Council to meet it mandate
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa wants the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) “urgently reformed” so it can credibly and effectively meet its mandate. Ramaphosa is quoted by government news agency SAnews as saying Africa, with a population of 1.3 billion, does not have permanent representation on the UN Security Council....
Arsenal spends, but questions remain about how big money will shape Gunners’ push for elite league
Arsenal have a higher net spend than any other club in Europe since the summer of 2020, and a time will come at which he has to deliver. Here, as the three-word slogan that has come to dominate this summer’s football discourse would have it, we go. The arrival of...
Military says mastermind of ‘theft of millions’ on President Ramaphosa farm is not South African
A weekend report alleging the apparent mastermind behind what is termed the theft of “millions” in foreign currency from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s game and livestock breeding farm in Limpopo was in the ranks of the South African Army has been dismissed. South African Department of Defence (DoD) Head of Communication...
EAC army deployment in Congo raises suspicions the move’s a ploy to create business opening for outgoing Kenyan president
Tensions are spiking once again in the chronically turbulent eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The M23 rebel movement – widely thought to be long dead – has dramatically resurrected. DRC President Félix Tshisekedi is now accusing Rwandan President Paul Kagame of again backing it with military support. Tshisekedi...
Abortion is a crime: Why US Supreme Court overturned right to pregnancy termination in 26 states
The constitutional right to an abortion has been struck down in the United States. The US Supreme Court announced on June 24 that it would overturn the 1973 landmark decision Roe v. Wade, which had protected abortion access up until the point that a foetus can live outside the womb...
South African xenophobia becomes endemic as vigilante groups embrace the ‘negative nationalism’
A week after members of Operation Dudula allegedly threatened to burn it down, the iconic Yeoville market in Johannesburg was set on fire in the early hours of June 20. Most traders who rent stalls there are migrants from other African countries. The South African Human Rights Commission confirmed that...
