Section: South Africa
Kim Kardashian flees Paris after robbery: report
Kim’s bodyguard was nowhere to be found after robbers handcuffed the hotel concierge, who led them to her apartment. ||| Kim Kardashian West has fled Paris after her terrifying ordeal. The reality TV star left the French capital on a private jet on Monday, just hours after she was held at gunpoint in her apartment and had “millions of...
eNCA | Russia demands loyalty or silence, say Crimea’s hounded Tatars
Crimea’s Muslim Tatars number some 300,000, around 14 percent of the peninsula’s population but estimates suggest up to 40,000 have left since Russia’s annexation. …read more Source:...
Plonk or pinot? Try these wine apps
Elin McCoy samples the latest wine apps for smartphone users and uncorks the good, the bad and the ugly. ||| New York – The new mobile app Wine Ring sounds great: With the help of secret, patented algorithms, it can predict whether or not I’ll like a wine before I buy it. It’s the latest in a series of apps that all swear...
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban in five controversies
Hungary’s referendum on Sunday, expected to reject the European Union’s mandatory migrant quotas, is just the latest move by hard-hitting right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban to rile critics at home and abroad. – Checks and balances – Elected with a two-thirds majority in 2010, Orban embarked on a legislative whirlwind including a...
Hundred people being probed for MH17 disaster: inquiry
A criminal inquiry into the downing of Flight MH17 said Wednesday it is investigating 100 people for a missile attack on the plane two years ago over eastern Ukraine, saying the system used had been transported from Russia. …read more Source: Daily...
Family of MH17 victim: prosecutors identified 100 suspects in plane’s downing
A man whose cousin was killed in the downing of a Malaysian airliner in 2014 said on Tuesday international prosecutors had determined the missile was launched from territory held by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sunday...
eNCA | At least 23 dead after drinking Moonshine in Ukraine
At least 23 people have died after drinking Moonshine, an “illicit brandy” in east Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Moonshine kills at least 23 in east Ukraine
At least 23 people have died after drinking moonshine in impoverished rural regions of eastern Ukraine that border on the former Soviet republic’s war zone, officials said Tuesday. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Support for Putin still strong despite sanctions
The ruling United Russia party is expected to win even greater dominance over Russia’s lower house in a parliamentary election. ||| Moscow – The ruling United Russia party is expected to win even greater dominance over Russia’s lower house in a parliamentary election on Sunday, showing that support for President Vladimir Putin...
News24.com | Kiev demands plan to make Russia heed eastern Ukraine pact
Ukraine’s foreign minister has said he wants an internationally agreed road map for peace in the east of his country that would prevent what he says is Russia’s backsliding on its commitments. …read more Source:...
