Russia’s military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark – the BBC can confirm. In the second 12 months on the front line – as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy – we found the body count was nearly 25% higher than in the first year. BBC Russian, independent media group...
MPs have backed a plan to ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, effectively ensuring it will become law. The measures, championed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, survived despite opposition from several leading Tory figures – including two ex-PMs. Health Secretary Victoria Atkins told MPs “there is no liberty in addiction” as she defended...
United Airlines has blamed Boeing for a $200m (£161m) hit to its earnings in the first three months of this year. The carrier was forced to ground its Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet for three weeks after a mid-air cabin blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight in January. United said that pushed it to a...
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Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) deputy secretary Christine Haindaka has called for the protection of children following the recent arrest of a mother from Ongenga village in the Oshana region. Oshana police spokesperson inspector Frieda Shikole told journalists on Tuesday that a 37-year-old woman has been accused of raping her nine-year-old son before burning him...
Namibia will experience a food deficit of staple cereal crops such as maize and pearl millet. Agriculture, water and land reform minister Calle Schlettwein says the deficit will need to be covered through imports. Schlettwein said this yesterday during the annual ministerial planning workshop in Windhoek. The workshop started yesterday and is expected to run...
… Clients feel “scammed” Businessman-turned-activist Michael Amushelelo has confirmed that some of the clients of his ‘affordable housing project’ are demanding refunds as the project has been dragging on for four years. Amushelelo advertised a housing project at Brakwater from 2021 – an initiative to build 150 unserviced plots and affordable houses for middle-income earners...
Independent presidential candidate Ally Angula is threatening to hold a sit-in demonstration at the offices of the City of Windhoek if the municipality fails to address Katutura residents’ concerns over its debt management. She has given the city a week to respond. Angula, who attended a protest by katutura residents yesterday, says the municipality is...
Former fisheries and marine resources minister Bernhard Esau says he needs to get access to about N$3,5 million in his assets that have been placed under a Prevention of Organised Crime Act property restraint order, to pay his lawyers for past and future legal services. Esau says this in a sworn statement filed at the...
The Namibian government has called on both Israel and Iran to give peace a chance. This comes after Iran launched drone attacks on Israel over the weekend. The tensions between Iran and Israel are threatening to plunge the Middle East into further turmoil at a time when the United Nations Security Council voted for a...