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Ukraine recap: Zelensky’s defiant new year speech foreshadows tough 2024 as government tightens conscription laws

Ukraine recap: Zelensky’s defiant new year speech foreshadows tough 2024 as government tightens conscription laws: Ukraine is alive. Ukraine lives. Ukraine fights. Ukraine advances, Ukraine overcomes the path. Ukraine gains. Ukraine works. Ukraine exists. In his new year’s speech this week, Volodymyr Zelensky was characteristically bullish about his country’s prospects as the war heads towards …

Salif Keïta, the defiant Malian football legend who created history on and off the field

Salif Keïta, the defiant Malian football legend who created history on and off the field: Former Malian footballer Salif “Domingo” Këita, who passed away on 2 September in Bamako, embodied a crucial moment in the history of African football, helping shape its relationship with the world. His influence was also felt in Europe, when he …

Jamie Reid: the defiant punk art of the man behind the Sex Pistols’ iconic imagery

Jamie Reid: the defiant punk art of the man behind the Sex Pistols’ iconic imagery: The death of graphic designer and activist Jamie Reid earlier this month was a huge loss for both the design community and the political left. Right until his death, Reid made incendiary works that incessantly attacked the political status quo. …

Iranian protesters remain defiant in the face of violent and brutal regime oppression

Iranian protesters remain defiant in the face of violent and brutal regime oppression: The vibrant, brave and unyielding voice of dissent remains strong in Iran despite months of brutal repression by the clerical regime. The “women, life, freedom” movement is an insistent call for change that is meeting the Islamic Republic head-on with resilient defiance. …

Banksy in Ukraine: how his defiant new works offer hope

Banksy in Ukraine: how his defiant new works offer hope: One of Banksy's murals in Borodyanka Sergey Dolzhenko Art, in all its forms, has always been a powerful means of representing, resisting and remembering war. And the Russo-Ukrainian War is no different, with artists responding powerfully to Russian aggression through an explosion of artwork drawing …

Basic Instinct at 30: the enduring appeal of the defiant femme fatale

Basic Instinct at 30: the enduring appeal of the defiant femme fatale: Basic Instinct TriStar Pictures Sexy, glamorous and provocative, Basic Instinct was one of the most notorious films of the 1990s. It broke new ground for its shocking portrayal of on-screen nudity (galvanised by its famous leg-crossing interrogation scene) despite delivering a plot full …

South Africa: Zuma Is a ‘Recalcitrant, Deliberately Defiant Litigant’ Who Must Be Arrested, High Court Told

South Africa in the news: South Africa: Zuma Is a ‘Recalcitrant, Deliberately Defiant Litigant’ Who Must Be Arrested, High Court Told: Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has told the High Court in Pietermaritzburg that Jacob Zuma must be arrested before the clock strikes midnight on Wednesday, 7 July.: “South Africa” – BingNews Africa: Nigeria Has Third Most …

Defiant ex-leader Jacob Zuma compares S.African judges to apartheid state

South Africa in the news: Defiant ex-leader Jacob Zuma compares S.African judges to apartheid state: South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma lashed out on Sunday at the judges who this week gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry, comparing them to the white minority …: “South Africa” – BingNews Vos wins …

Defiant Pearl Thusi ‘loves’ the haters who help her bag more

South Africa in the news: Defiant Pearl Thusi ‘loves’ the haters who help her bag more: Pearl thusi got into a heated conversation on gender equality and later addressed her haters saying they help her make more money.: “South Africa” – BingNews Saudi Arabia to get 3 million Covid vaccines from India: The Serum Institute …

Wayne Pivac remains defiant despite sixth successive loss in defeat to Ireland

South Africa in the news: Wayne Pivac remains defiant despite sixth successive loss in defeat to Ireland: Wayne Pivac insists he is the right man to revive Wales’ faltering fortunes after slipping to a sixth successive loss with a crushing defeat to Ireland. Wales’ alarming tale of woe under head coach …: “South Africa” – …

Zuma stands defiant as ANC rivals vie for leadership

South Africa in the news: Zuma stands defiant as ANC rivals vie for leadership: When Jacob Zuma opened the African National Congress conference that will end his term as party leader, South Africa’s president delivered a typically defiant speech. The ANC congress is taking place as the party is haemorrhaging support, engulfed by …: “South …