Issued on: 19/10/2021 – 12:08Modified: 19/10/2021 – 12:06 Johannesburg (AFP) Injury-hit Rugby World Cup winners South Africa included two uncapped players in lock Salmaan Moerat and scrum-half Grant Williams on Tuesday in a 32-man squad for November’s tour of Britain. The Springboks face Wales in Cardiff on November 6, Scotland in Edinburgh seven days later […]
DUSHANBE — The jailed deputy chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan, Mahmurod Odinaev, has refused to sign papers that would shorten his prison term under a mass amnesty, saying he will only accept his immediate release and full exoneration. Odinaev’s son, Habibullo Rizoev, told RFE/RL on October 18 that the mass amnesty […]
It is impossible to create a net-zero world by 2050 without a tremendous growth in the capacity of renewable energy. According to a recent research report by Barclays, in Europe alone up to 114GW of new renewable energy capacity will be required each year to reach the 2050 targets. This is nearly five times the […]
Issued on: 19/10/2021 – 08:15 A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who absconded before her trial was set to begin is due to appear in court in Germany on Tuesday. The first woman to be prosecuted for Nazi-era crimes in decades, Irmgard Furchner is charged with complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 […]
Authorities in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, say they are set to tighten restrictions as they struggle to contain a surge in coronavirus cases. Included in the measures announced on October 18 is the introduction of a health pass to regulate access to events with large crowds. Boris Piotrovski, the city’s deputy governor, said that […]
Issued on: 19/10/2021 – 04:40 North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile off its east coast on Tuesday, officials in South Korea and Japan said, as Seoul opens a major arms fair, spy chiefs meet to discuss the nuclear standoff, and South Korea prepares for a space launch. The North Korean launch would be […]
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia — A court in Russia has declared a notorious anti-feminist, anti-LGBT, racist group known as Male State an extremist organization. The Nizhny Novgorod regional court in the Volga Federal District on October 18 banned the online-group’s activities in Russia. The Interior Ministry’s antiterrorist center described the group at the hearing as an […]
Issued on: 18/10/2021 – 22:32 New York (AFP) The artist formerly known as Kanye West is now officially Ye. Just Ye. A Los Angeles judge granted the 44-year-old’s name change request, a communications officer at the Los Angeles Superior Court told AFP on Monday. The mercurial performer had filed the request in August, citing “personal […]
Prosecutors in Bosnia-Herzegovina have launched an investigation of Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik for “undermining the constitutional order” after he announced that the Republika Srpska leadership will soon take measures aimed at withdrawing from key institutions of the Bosnian state. Dodik said on October 8 that the ethnic Serbian entity will pull out of the […]