UKRAINE UPDATE: 30 OCTOBER 2023 Ukraine downs Russian fighter jet near Avdiivka; Siemens energy chair defends business with Rosatom 7 min 1 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 27 OCTOBER 2023 Black Sea corridor traffic paused amid anti-graft clampdown; US to deliver $150m ordnance package to Kyiv 6 min 0 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 24 OCTOBER 2023 Turkey’s Erdoğan sends Sweden’s Nato bid to Parliament; EU ministers discuss ongoing support for Kyiv 3 min 0 By Bloomberg
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED African continent braces for a more dangerous world 5 min 1 By Phillip van Niekerk
UKRAINE UPDATE: 20 OCTOBER 2023 Troops cross Dnipro River into Russian-held territory; Kyiv will receive US long-range missiles 'regularly’ 5 min 1 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 19 OCTOBER 2023 Zelensky holds talks with France and Norway; Putin sends jets with hypersonic missiles to patrol Black Sea 6 min 0 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 18 OCTOBER 2023 Orbán first EU leader to meet Putin since ICC arrest warrant; Kyiv missile strikes 'damaged Russian airfields' 4 min 0 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 16 OCTOBER 2023 Special forces target Russian power station; Putin says Kyiv’s counteroffensive has ‘failed completely’ 4 min 1 By Bloomberg
LANGUAGE & LIBERTY ‘Putin wants to rebuild the Russian Empire’ — Ukrainian scholar Olexiy Haran dissects the roots of the war in Europe 6 min 9 By Peter Fabricius
UKRAINE UPDATE: 2 OCTOBER 2023 Five grain ships head for Black Sea ports; US aid for Kyiv hits a hurdle after Senate omits funding 6 min 0 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 28 SEPTEMBER 2023 Kyiv targets Kremlin’s ‘military-industrial complex’; US steps up sanctions evasion probe into Credit Suisse, UBS 5 min 0 By Bloomberg
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS Armenia says ‘ethnic cleansing’ under way in Karabakh region 4 min 0 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 14 SEPTEMBER 2023 Danube ports survive drone strikes; Kim and Putin meet at Russian space centre for possible arms deal 6 min 0 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 13 SEPTEMBER 2023 North Korea’s Kim arrives in Russia to meet Putin; Kyiv says operations in east and south remain ‘difficult’ 7 min 1 By Bloomberg
COMRADES IN ARMS Kim Jong-un’s armoured train heads towards Russia for Putin talks 2 min 0 By Bloomberg
UKRAINE UPDATE: 11 SEPTEMBER 2023 ‘Fighting weather’ time is running out, warns US; Blinken says it’s Kyiv’s call on how to use weapons 6 min 0 By Bloomberg
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED The G20 — will the world please stop fiddling while Africa burns 6 min 3 By Phillip van Niekerk
ISS TODAY OP-ED African Union set to join G20 at critical period of world order turbulence 4 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
JOSTLING FOR (GLOBAL) POSITION Oh brave new world, that has such BRICS and blocs in it 9 min 1 By J Brooks Spector
SHADOW OF THE KREMLIN OP-ED The fear of Putin stalks the Russian émigré community – even in South Africa 8 min 0 By Hamilton Wende
MILITARY TALKS North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to meet Putin in Russia this month - New York Times 1 min 2 By Reuters