Maverick News When desks become advertisements: Austerity’s price on South African classrooms 3 min 8 By Takudzwa Pongweni
Maverick Citizen Branded McDonald’s desks for schoolchildren — government failing or a corporation overstepping? 5 min 20 By Lillian Roberts
Our Burning Planet North Korean forced labour programme condemns workers to beatings, sexual abuse in Chinese seafood factories 22 min 1 By Ian Urbina
World Kyiv sceptical of Putin’s brief ceasefire offer as Erdoğan renews Ukraine peace push 5 min 0 By Bloomberg
Business Maverick McDonald’s boosts franchisee requirements and seeks to bolster diversity 1 min 0 By Bloomberg
Ukraine Crisis Russian forces seek to cut off Sievierodonetsk; 22 injured in western Ukraine missile attack 4 min 1 By Bloomberg
World Putin warns Nato aspirants of triggered response; Russian troops halted at Donets River 9 min 1 By Bloomberg
DM168 The West doesn’t get it – Russians aren’t ‘zombified’, and most of them are pro-Putin 6 min 16 By Paula Slier in Moscow
South Africa Obesity: Is it you or ‘the system’? 4 min 0 By Kerry Cullinan, Amy Green and Pontsho Pilane
Business Maverick Fred Turner, the man behind the Egg McMuffin and Chicken McNuggets, now cooking in the McKitchen in the sky 6 min 0 By J Brooks Spector
