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Shoppers with a cart choose vegetables and fruits at the Okey supermarket in St. Petersburg. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images A break-in at a small food store in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg wouldn’t usually make headlines around the world, but this time was different. CCTV footage from the store, Dairy Place, in […]
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Steve Reed says, if farmers feel betrayed, they should blame Tories for state public finances were in after election In an interview with the BBC, Steve Reed, the environment secretary, defended imposing inheritance tax on some farms when Labour said in opposition that it was not planning to do that. Asked why the government changed […]
Following a four-day-power outage in Akwa Ibom, the State-owned power company, Ibom Power Limited and its gas supplier, Accugas Limited, a subsidiary of Savannah Energy have continued to trade blames over the cause of the incident. The former Managing Director of Ibom Power Company, IPC, Engr. Meyen Etukudoh had attributed the blackout in the state […]
A banned pesticide has been linked to the deaths of several children in South Africa, according to conclusive tests conducted by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday addressed the nation on the government’s plans to tackle the scourge of food-borne deaths across the country. According to the NICD, Terbufos […]
Credible reports indicate that the Arakan Army committed crimes against the Rohingya in Buthidaung in May – but the group has managed to silence many of its critics among the resistance and civil society organisations. By FRONTIER Ko Maung Maung hid in his uncle’s house, watching from the window as Buthidaung town went up in […]
To have this team go by the name of “Australia” was at best misleading and at worst an insult. That would have been so even if they had won. The public knew it well enough. The crowds for the series constituted no more than a smattering by the standards of this once wildly popular but […]
In an episode dedicated to unpacking the 2024 presidential election results, John Oliver‘s through-line toward making sense of Kamala Harris‘ loss was a running joke pinning the blame on Katy Perry‘s “ill-advised” cover of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” at a last-minute rally. While the Last Week Tonight host said that everyone seemed to […]
Surging butter prices in Russia have led to increased thefts in some supermarkets and prompted Moscow to boost imports of the staple food product from nearby countries. According to Rosstat, the state statistics agency, butter prices jumped 25.7% from Jan. 1 to Oct. 28. Rusprodsoyuz, a union of food producers, reported that a kilogram of […]
The Kruisrivier Bridge is on the verge of collapse following the floods. (Supplied/Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we’re about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free […]