A Russian military frigate docked in Cape Town harbour on Monday ahead of controversial military drills with South Africa and China, coming as Moscow is about to mark one year since its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.. The Russian consulate in Cape Town tweeted a photo of the ship, the "Admiral Gorshkov", in the harbour, saying it was on "its way to Durban where it will take part in joint... drills".
Russian athletes should publicly denounce the war if they are to be allowed to participate in the 2024 Olympics, Kyiv mayor and former world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko told AFP Monday.. "Russian and Belarusian athletes can't participate in the Olympic Games in Paris if they don't say 'no' to war," Klitschko said.
Serkan Tatoglu is haunted by the question his six-year-old keeps asking since their house collapsed in last week's earthquake in Turkey.. But the questions still come.
Paris city workers discovered the dismembered lower torso of a woman in a bag in a popular park in the northeast of the French capital on Monday, security sources said. . A source close to the case said the body part appeared to be the pelvic area of a woman.
Catholic clergy in Portugal have abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, an independent commission said on Monday after hearing hundreds of victims' accounts.. The Portuguese inquiry, commissioned by the Church in the staunchly Catholic country, published its findings after hearing from more than 500 victims last year.
A former UK policeman jailed for life for the kidnap, rape and murder of London woman Sarah Everard pleaded guilty on Monday to three counts of indecent exposure.. He entered the guilty pleas at London's Old Bailey criminal court by video link from the jail where he is serving a whole-life sentence for the murder.
An elderly dog whose front paws were cut off by Mexican drug cartel members is in the running for the title of pet of the year in the United States.. Pay de Limon was rescued and now walks and runs with prostheses from the United States.
Kyiv said Monday that fighting around the frontline hotspot of Bakhmut was "difficult" as Russia claimed new gains in the longest-running battle of Moscow's nearly year-old invasion.. Ukraine is determined not to cede more ground there, but Russia has made incremental gains towards capturing the destroyed city.
Czech international midfielder Jakub Jankto said on Monday that he was gay in an emotional video on his Twitter account.. "Our maximum respect and unconditional support to our footballer Jakub Jankto," wrote the Madrid side on Twitter.
The controversial Russia mercenary outfit Wagner, which is active in the invasion of Ukraine but also in Africa, is a "formidable adversary" because of the price it is prepared to pay to achieve its goals, a French general said on Monday.. "They (Wagner) are sending us a message that when we have to face these militias elsewhere, they are able to pay a very high price in blood to achieve their objectives and will be a formidable opponent," said General Pierre Schill, chief of staff of the French army.
