Section: South Africa
Rayo fans protest against new signing Zozulya
Rayo Vallecano supporters demonstrating against the loan signing of Ukraine forward Roman Zozulya displayed banners at the Spanish second-tier team’s training session on Wednesday to protest against the player’s alleged links to the far right. Rayo’s signing of Zozulya, who issued a statement denying that he supports the far...
eNCA | Nato head urges Russian action on spike in Ukraine violence
“We call on Russia to use its considerable influence with the rebels to bring the violence to an end,” Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels. …read more Source:...
Kremlin accuses Kiev of undermining peace deal
Russia accused Ukrainian-backed forces of undermining a peace deal by launching an attack over eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Eyewitness...
Fears grow over jihadist cyber threat
Jihadists have yet to shut down a power grid, paralyse a transport network or banking system or take over a key industrial site from afar, but experts say the threat of such a cyber attack should be taken seriously. Analysts fear that while extremist groups may not have the necessary skills themselves, they could hire someone else to wreak havoc....
Putin and Trump to speak by phone on Saturday: Kremlin
US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will on Saturday hold their first phone conversation since the American leader’s inauguration, the Kremlin said. “I can confirm that a telephone conversation is planned. It will be Saturday evening Moscow time,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday....
‘Strong US role at the UN needed’
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, nominated to be the next US ambassador to the UN, outlined her vision of a strong US role in the human rights institution at a confirmation hearing today. Noting her potential role as a “fresh set of eyes” and an “outsider”, Haley highlighted the need for a strong US leadership position at the UN. “When...
‘Diplomacy is just negotiation’
As Donald Trump becomes president of the US today, he becomes both commander-in-chief of the US military and chief negotiator of US foreign policy. Trump would like nothing better. He believes himself to be an excellent negotiator. He gets what he wants. He once said diplomacy was just negotiation, “the ability to convince people to accept your...
Ukrainian leader’s confectionery firm to close Russian factory
Ukraine’s largest confectionery company, owned by President Petro Poroshenko, plans to close its only factory in Russia, saying it had become impossible to do business there because of trade restrictions and anti-Ukrainian sentiment. The Lipetsk plant in western Russia has seen production decline since March 2014 when Moscow annexed...
‘Three-parent’ baby born in Ukraine using new technique
A baby boy has been born in Ukraine to an infertile couple after the first ever use of a new technique using the DNA of three parents, the head of a Kiev fertility clinic said Wednesday. The boy was conceived using DNA from his mother and father but also from an egg donor in a …read more Source: The New...
Trump shakes postwar order, in blow to Europe
Europe must pull together or risk being sidelined as Donald Trump signals the end of a postwar transatlantic partnership credited with keeping the peace for the past 70 years, analysts and officials say. Fears about the US president-elect’s isolationist stance became a reality this week when Trump challenged basic assumptions about the role...
