The three-month-old war has devastated the strategic port, where Ukrainians have sustained a pocket of resistance from within the Azovstal steelworks after weeks of bloody battle. KYIV – A Ukrainian commander in Mariupol appealed directly to Elon Musk on Wednesday, asking the world’s richest man to intervene on behalf of …
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Journalists escort the body of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, who was allegedly shot dead by Israeli troops. PHOTO: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP The South African government has weighed in on the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Dirco has condemned the killing. Akleh was shot dead on …
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The killing and consumption of pigs is normalized as they are produced for food. Credit: Shutterstock At the end of 2021, 57-year old David Bennett Sr. was bedridden and on life-support with irreversible heart failure. He was not eligible for a human heart transplant or an implanted mechanical heart pump …
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A person with monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo holds out their hands, which are covered in lesions. (CDC/ Brian W.J. Mahy, BSc, MA, PhD, ScD, DSc) A rare case of monkeypox has been detected in the UK. The illness causes puss-filled boils as well as flu-like symptoms. …
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The Botswana population grows by around 1.4 percent annually as preliminary results estimate it to be at 2 346 179. It’s estimated that there are 8 279 Batswanas in the diaspora, down from 23 032 in 2011. There’s an average of 3.3 persons per household, but figures also show households in …
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Kaizer Chiefs are set to be hauled back to the PSL Disciplinary Committee (PSL DC) for the two fixtures they couldn’t honour in December 2021. READ | DOCTOR KHUMALO: WHY CAN’T WE BE ALLOWED TO BE PART OF SAFA? Amakhosi failed to honour matches against Cape Town City and Golden Arrows …
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This is absolutely not the one. South Africa is racing towards a new, darker chapter in its petrol price crisis – with fuel costs set to increase by a staggering amount at the beginning of June. The latest forecasts are nothing short of a travesty. Why is South Africa heading …
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Still no timeframe for Dark Souls servers coming back online. Dark Souls’ multiplayer servers are still down more than three months after a dangerous exploit was discovered that could allow malicious software to be run remotely on a player’s hardware. Three months of almost total silence on when those servers …
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Due to the age difference between Mohale Motaung and his ex-husband, Somizi Mhlongo, the former has been labelled a gold digger by fans of the latter. The accusations first surfaced at the beginning of their marriage as people tried to make sense of the very public relationship using the age-old …
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German tennis legend Boris Becker is reportedly having a “rough time” in jail as he is not too happy with the food served and he is also shocked by the lack of hygiene inside the prison. On April 29, Becker was sentenced to two and a half years after being …
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