Stalingrad

It is 6:30 in the morning. One sunny morning in Paris during the end of summer. In the Stalingrad Métro station in northeastern Paris, many migrants, mostly men, sleep crowded under a bridge. Some people sleep on cardboard and old mattresses behind a smelly fence, while others stay awake by…

The battle to remove South Africa’s Public Protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, took four years and consumed more than R160 million of taxpayers’ money, with her legal defence bent on dragging out the case and delaying her removal, employing every unethical and ethical legal tactic to avoid being held accountable. This…

Former president Jacob Zuma has spent more time in court than most South Africans, waging legal battles for 19 years against allegations that he improperly benefited from the Arms Deal in the early years of democracy. In addition to his court appearances for his trial in Pietermaritzburg, he has launched…

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Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Jerome Delay / POOL / AFP) It is an abuse process designed to lay the ground for the next, counsel for the arms deal corruption prosecutor told the Pietermaritzburg high court Read More

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Updated February 2, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. EST|Published February 2, 2023 at 2:02 a.m. EST The aftermath of an overnight missile strike on a residential district in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Thursday. (Sergey Shestak/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)Senior European officials arrived in Kyiv on Thursday, in what European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted…

World By Mary Ilyushina | Feb 2, 2023 Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evoked Red Army glory in World War II in an attempt to justify his war in Ukraine. In a fiery speech, Putin drew false parallels, claiming that…

Key PointsVolodymyr Zelenskyy has urged European leaders visiting Kyiv to pile more sanctions on Russia.It comes as Vladimir Putin made a speech evoking a World War Two victory over Nazi forces to rally his nation.Putin spoke in Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad where the Soviet army defeated Nazi forces 80…

Putin compared Russia’s war in Ukraine with World War II and lambasted Germany for helping to arm Kyiv. Published On 2 Feb 20232 Feb 2023 Russian President Vladimir Putin has evoked a famous World War II victory over the Nazis to rally his nation while predicting a Russian triumph in…