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Ukraine: SA’s feeble response betrays its own history
Aggressive, as opposed to defensive, warfare is a violation of international law. It is this that was used to condemn the apartheid South African Defence Force’s incursions into…
2020 in pictures
Mail & Guardian pictures editor Paul Botes presents some of the most striking images of 2020
Rescue teams battle Ukraine mine fire, 80 dead
Rescue teams battled smoke and high temperatures on Monday as they pressed on with the task of tracking down 20 missing miners in a Ukrainian coal mine after a methane explosion…
Seventy dead as rescue teams battle Ukraine mine fire
Rescue teams battled a tenacious fire in a Ukrainian colliery on Monday as they strove to locate 30 miners missing underground after a methane blast killed at least 70 miners.…
Ukraine mine blast kills 17
Seventeen miners were killed and 14 are missing after a methane explosion ripped through a mine in Ukraine’s Donbass coalfield on Sunday, the latest of a string of accidents in…