South Africa, which has always refused to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, has announced the organization of joint maneuvers with the Russian and Chinese navies along its coast.

Former journalist and anti-apartheid activist Frene Ginwala, president of South Africa's first democratically elected National Assembly and the first woman to hold the post, recently died at the age of 90, the South African Presidency announced. Frene Ginwala died at her home, having suffered a stroke two weeks earlier.

The President of Brazil, Lula da Silva, signed a law passed in Congress last December, which equates racial slurs with racism, a crime that does not allow bail.