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Pro-Russian authorities tell Kherson residents to leave 'immediately'
Pro-Russian authorities tell Kherson residents to leave 'immediately'
World
by  AFP

Pro-Russian authorities on Saturday urged residents in the southern Kherson region, which Moscow claims to have annexed, to leave the main city "immediately" in the face of Kyiv's advancing counter-offensive. Kyiv's forces have been advancing along the west bank of the Dnieper river, towards the Kherson region's eponymous main city.

S.Africa's Zuma says successor Ramaphosa 'corrupt', committed 'treason'
S.Africa's Zuma says successor Ramaphosa 'corrupt', committed 'treason'
Africa
by  AFP

South Africa's graft-accused former president Jacob Zuma on Saturday accused his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, of corruption and committing treason following a cash heist scandal at the latter's farm. South Africa's anti-corruption watchdog and the police have opened probes, but Zuma said there was "silence of the many criminalities against the current president".

Iranians strike as Mahsa Amini protests enter sixth week
Iranians strike as Mahsa Amini protests enter sixth week
World
by  AFP

Shopkeepers and factory workers went on strike in Iran on Saturday as nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini entered a sixth week, activists said. A teachers' union in Iran has called for a nationwide strike on Sunday and Monday over the crackdown that Amnesty International says has cost the lives of at least 23 children.

'Too late': Escape routes close on Ukraine's new front
'Too late': Escape routes close on Ukraine's new front
World
by  AFP

The newborn peeking out of a pink blanket in a hospital on the north bank of Ukraine's Dnieper river may never see her grandparents back home in the Russian-occupied south. A Ukrainian counteroffensive that saw the Russians give up most of the land they grabbed in the north of the vast war zone has reached the strategically vital south.