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Cuisine in the dark as power cuts grip Kyiv
Cuisine in the dark as power cuts grip Kyiv
World
by  AFP

The place goes dark at 6:00 pm as scheduled but customers at this upscale Kyiv restaurant are unfazed, happy to continue their meal and conversations. As winter approaches darkness descends on Kyiv at 4:00 pm.

Fatal stabbing of Belgian officer raises security questions
Fatal stabbing of Belgian officer raises security questions
World
by  AFP

Belgian authorities faced questions Friday over how a convict on a terrorism watch list was able to stab a police officer to death, hours after making threats and demanding psychiatric treatment. Vincent Gilles, head of the police union SLFP, demanded to know why the suspect had been allowed to leave the hospital even after making threats.

Chad says more than 620 arrests in protests
Chad says more than 620 arrests in protests
Africa
by  AFP

More than 620 people, including dozens of minors, have been arrested in Chad, the public prosecutor said Friday, after anti-regime protests that left at least 50 dead. According to rights groups, dozens more people were killed during and since the protests across several cities.

Springboks' concussed Wiese replaced by Smith for France Test
Springboks' concussed Wiese replaced by Smith for France Test
Africa
by  AFP

Springboks No. 8 Jasper Wiese has been ruled out of this weekend's Autumn Nations Series Test due to concussion and has been replaced by Kwagga Smith, South African Rugby's director of rugby Rassie Erasmus said on Friday. "We'd hoped Jasper would pass all the criteria, HIA set of rules," Erasmus told reporters.

Cisse 'optimistic' as he names injured Mane in Senegal World Cup squad
Cisse 'optimistic' as he names injured Mane in Senegal World Cup squad
Africa
by  AFP

Ballon d'Or runner-up Sadio Mane was named in Senegal's World Cup squad by coach Aliou Cisse on Friday in spite of a recent injury. Cisse, who captained Senegal at the 2002 World Cup, said he hoped the condition of the Bayern Munich attacker would improve within a few weeks and declared himself "really optimistic" that the injury would not require an operation.