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Jun
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Russia warns Britain it will bomb ships next time

Russia warns Britain it will bomb ships next time

WORLD
GUY FAULCONBRIDGE and KATYA GOLUBKOVA RUSSIA has warned Britain that it would bomb British naval vessels in the Black Sea if there were any further provocative actions by the British navy off the coast of Russia-annexed Crimea. Russia summoned the British ambassador in Moscow for a formal diplomatic scolding after the warship breached what the Kremlin says are its territorial waters but which Britain and most of the world say belong to Ukraine. Britain said Russia was giving an inaccurate account of the incident. No warning shots had been fired and no bombs had been dropped in the path of…
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Jun
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Angry and traumatized, Britney Spears calls conservatorship abusive

Angry and traumatized, Britney Spears calls conservatorship abusive

WORLD
LISA RICHWINE AN emotional Britney Spears has called the 13-year-long conservatorship that has controlled her life stupid and abusive, saying she felt traumatized and angry and wanted her life back. In a statement of more than 20 minutes, pop star Spears, 39, told the Los Angeles judge overseeing the arrangement that she wanted it to end. "I just want my life back," she said. "I'm not here to be anyone's slave." "I'm traumatized ... I'm not happy, I can't sleep," she said. Spears said her frequent upbeat postings on her Instagram account were lies. "I'm so angry. And I'm depressed.…
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Apr
21
2021
By The African Mirror
Nervous anticipation turns to joy as former police officer Chauvin found guilty

Nervous anticipation turns to joy as former police officer Chauvin found guilty

WORLD
NATHAN LAYNE and JONATHAN ALLEN NERVOUS awaiting a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin erupted in jubilation after the jury found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd during an arrest last May. Throngs gathered in George Floyd square, around the intersection where Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died with his neck pinned to the street under Chauvin's knee, screamed, cheered and applauded at the news of the guilty verdict. The square has become a place of pilgrimage and protest since Floyd's death made him the face of a national…
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Apr
21
2021
By The African Mirror
Ailing Navalny cracks ‘skeleton’ jokes on Instagram

Ailing Navalny cracks ‘skeleton’ jokes on Instagram

WORLD
THREE Three weeks into a hunger strike that threatens to kill him, Alexei Navalny made light of his skeletal state in a darkly humorous social media post on Tuesday and said he was grateful for support from Russia and around the world. The Russian opposition leader was transferred on Sunday to a prison hospital in Vladimir, east of Moscow, after starving himself since March 31 in protest at the refusal of authorities to grant him access to his own doctors. In a post on Instagram, he told his supporters they would laugh if they could see him staggering round his…
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May
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Nine killed, many wounded in Russian school shooting

Nine killed, many wounded in Russian school shooting

WORLD
ANDREW OSBORN, TOM BALMFORTH and ALEXANDER MARROW NINE people, including seven children, were killed yesterday and many more badly wounded after a lone teenage gunman opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan, local authorities said, prompting a Kremlin call for tighter gun controls. Two children could be seen leaping from the third floor of the four-storey School Number 175 to escape as gunshots rang out, in a video filmed by an onlooker that was circulated by Russia's RIA news agency. "We heard the sounds of explosions at the beginning of the second lesson. All the teachers…
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May
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Bodies float down Ganges as nearly 4,000 more die of COVID in India

Bodies float down Ganges as nearly 4,000 more die of COVID in India

WORLD
AURABH SHARMA SCORES of bodies are washing up on the banks of the Ganges as Indians fail to keep pace with the deaths and cremations of around 4,000 people a day from the novel coronavirus. India currently accounts for one in three of the reported deaths from coronavirus around the world, according to a Reuters tally, and its health system is overwhelmed, despite donations of oxygen cylinders and other medical equipment from around the world. Rural parts of India not only have more rudimentary healthcare, but are now also running short of wood for traditional Hindu cremations. Authorities said on…
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May
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Afghan girls torn between fears and ambitions after school attack

Afghan girls torn between fears and ambitions after school attack

WORLD
AMINA was one of the hardest-working girls in her class at Sayed Ul-Shuhada High School in west Kabul, her best friend remembers, determined to become a doctor to treat Afghanistan's thousands of war victims. Amina became a victim herself on Saturday, killed in a massive bomb blast as she and dozens of girls left school in the minority Hazara neighbourhood that has repeatedly been targeted by militants. Masooma, 17, who was holding back at school with friends, narrowly missed the blast. "It was like the sky was falling in," she said. Mourning her friend, Masooma is now torn between fear…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Seven children killed, many wounded in Russian school shooting

Seven children killed, many wounded in Russian school shooting

WORLD
MAXIM RODIONOV and ALEXANDER MARROW SEVEN school children were killed on Tuesday and many more wounded after a lone teenage gunman opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan, the head of the region said. Two children could be seen leaping from the third floor of the four-storey School Number 175 to escape as gunshots rang out, in a video filmed by an onlooker that was circulated by Russia's RIA news agency. Calling the attack a big tragedy for the whole country, Rustam Minnikhanov, the head of the wider Tatarstan region, said there was no evidence that…
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Jun
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Russia fires warning shots, bombs at British warship

Russia fires warning shots, bombs at British warship

WORLD
MARIA KISELYOVA and ANDREW MacASKILL RUSSIA has revealed that it fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the path of a British warship to chase it out of waters Moscow claims in the Black Sea off the coast of the Crimea peninsula. Britain rejected Russia's account of the incident, saying it believed any shots fired were a pre-announced Russian "gunnery exercise", and that no bombs had been dropped. But it confirmed that its destroyer, HMS Defender, had sailed through what it described as waters belonging to Ukraine. The ship was "conducting an innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters in accordance…
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Jun
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Iran says U.S. to lift oil sanctions, Germany, France cautious on matter

Iran says U.S. to lift oil sanctions, Germany, France cautious on matter

WORLD
PARISA HAFEZI and HUMEYRA PAMUK IRAN says the United States had agreed to remove all sanctions on Iran's oil and shipping, although Germany cautioned that major issues remained at talks between Tehran and world powers to revive a 2015 nuclear deal. The Iranian remarks, by outgoing President Hassan Rouhani's chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi, echoed previous assertions by officials in Rouhani's pragmatist camp that Washington is prepared to make major concessions at the talks, which have been underway since April in Vienna. The talks adjourned on Sunday for consultations in capitals, two days after Iran held a presidential election won…
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