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Listen to This ArticleYour browser does not support the audio element. Ukrainian military officials said Monday their troops have retaken another southeastern village from Russian forces, among the first small successes in stepped-up counteroffensive operations against Moscow's more than 15-month invasion of Ukraine. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on…

‘There will be nowhere left to hide for those who support and profit from the Kremlin’s war of aggression,’ said Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly.By Joanna ChiuStaff Reporter Sat., June 10, 2023timer2 min. read Canada has ordered the seizure of a giant Russian cargo jet that’s been grounded on the…

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Thursday, 8th June 2023 Today’s big movers among the JSE’s Top 100 companies – from Sharenet, platinum sponsor of the Fantasy Fund Manager game. South Africa’s stance on Ukraine-Russia conflict poses risk of billions in export revenue loss South Africa’s refusal to take a stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine…

For days, the Ukrainian teenager has waited in the attic, just down the street from the cemetery of her flooded town, marking time with her 83-year-old grandfather and two other elderly people and hoping for help to escape the deluge of a catastrophic dam collapse. But help is slow in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday reiterated their commitment to help Ukraine repel Russia’s ongoing invasion, while agreeing to step up cooperation on challenges their economies face with artificial intelligence, clean energy, and critical minerals. The leaders said the “first of its…

Image source, Reuters A huge dam in the Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine has been destroyed, unleashing a flood. Ukraine's military and Nato have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russia has blamed Ukraine. Thousands of people have been evacuated from low-lying areas either side of the river…

KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and supply drinking water to areas flooded by a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, in a growing humanitarian and ecological disaster along a river that forms part of the front line in the 15-month…

Kyiv, Ukraine. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Every military action communicates something. The recent drone strikes in Moscow during which three residential and high-rise buildings were targeted certainly did so. This unprecedented attack arguably communicated to Muscovites that Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" is nothing but a euphemism for a war…

ANKARA — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held separate phone calls with Ukrainian and Russian counterparts on Wednesday, offering to set up a joint mechanism to investigate a Ukrainian dam collapse.  The Nova Kakhovka dam, one of the largest in the country, lies on the Dnipro River in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine.…