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Sergey Moskalenko with his father back in 2014 / Moskalenko family archive The most harrowing footage from the Kemerovo mall fire shows a boy leaping from a fourth floor window. He is now in an induced coma, and when he wakes up doctors will tell him that his parents and 4-year old sister are dead. […]

At the invitation of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese president, Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), paid an unofficial visit to China from […]

Investigators work in the garden of Sergei Skripal’s house in Salisbury, southern England, on March 22nd 2018. Photo: AFP Austria said on Monday that it would not follow a number of other EU countries in expelling Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain, stressing its neutrality. “We stand behind the […]

Photo: DPA A spate of bloody knife attacks in recent weeks has led to concerns about a rise in knife crime. The fact that teenage refugees have often been the culprits has also fired up right-wing critics of the government. On Tuesday morning a 24-year-old woman’s life still hung in the balance after she was […]

Kirill Kukhmar / TASS A massive fire swept through the Winter Cherry shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on Sunday, killing at least 64 people. The victims included children who were allegedly locked inside an upper-floor cinema watching cartoons. Here’s what we know so far. The victims  * At least 64 people died […]

A motorcade believed to be carrying a North Korean delegation makes its way along Beijing’s main east-west thoroughfare, Changan Avenue, in Beijing, China, Tuesday. / Yonhap North Korea’s efforts to improve frayed ties with China bode well for the upcoming inter-Korean summit next month, Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday, following reports that a ranking North […]

Egyptians start voting on the second day of elections (Photo: AFP) Egyptian citizens headed to polling stations across the country on Tuesday for the second day of voting in Egypt’s 2018 presidential elections. Voting is due to run from 9am to 9pm in 13,706 polling stations in all 26 governorates, with the process due to […]

Durban – Embattled former president Jacob Zuma is not about to go down for corruption charges without putting up a big fight. On Monday, the Hawks finally served Zuma with a summons to appear in the Durban High Court on April 6, his lawyer Michael Hulley confirmed to The Star on Monday night. But Hulley […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the “criminal negligence” and corruption behind the tragedy in Kemerovo, Russia, where more than 60 people, including many children, perished in a massive blaze. “The first feeling when they speak about the number of the dead and dead children – you want, not to cry, but wail,” the president said after […]