# Angola has announced it would withdraw from its role as mediator in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in order to focus on its presidency of the African Union. Angolan president Joao Lourenco was named mediator by the AU in 2022 in an attempt to pacify the protracted conflict involving the […]
# American and Russian officials are meeting in Saudi Arabia to discuss a partial ceasefire in Ukraine today, a day after US-Ukraine talks there and as President Donald Trump pushes to quickly end the war. The US and Russian teams huddled behind closed doors at a luxurious hotel in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, with a […]
# Motorsport: Red Bull se spanhoof, Christian Horner, het nie bespiegeling weerspreek dat Liam Lawson vervang kan word na slegs twee Formule Een-wedrenne dié seisoen nie. Die 23-jarige Nieu-Seelander het nie beïndruk in die eerste Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australië, of die afgelope naweek s’n in Sjanghai, China, nie. Hy is in albe wedrenne in […]
# Iran says it was open to indirect talks with the United States, after president Donald Trump had demanded negotiations for a new nuclear deal. Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi dismissed the prospect of direct talks as long as Trump maintains his “maximum pressure” policy. Under that policy in his first term as president, Trump withdrew […]
# Die DA in Tshwane stel verligting voor vir belastingbetalers in aanloop tot die 2025/26 munisipale begroting. Belangrike voorstelle sluit in ‘n nul-persent verhoging op eiendomsbelasting, die verhoging van die nie-belasbare gedeelte vir residensiële eiendomme tot 450-duisend rand, en die staking van nuwe belastings. Jacqui Uys van die DA sê die party pleit ook vir […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa moedig Suid-Afrikaners aan om die onenigheid te verwerp wat wêreldwyd kop uitsteek, veral rakende die spanning met Amerika. Ramaphosa het in sy weeklikse nuusbrief oor Menseregtedag gepraat en die vals berigte genoem dat mense in Suid-Afrika op grond van ras of kultuur vervolg word. Sy kommentaar volg ná toenemende spanning met […]
# Business Leadership South Africa sê ArcelorMittal Suid-Afrika se voorgestelde reddingsplan is onvolhoubaar. Daar is nie ‘n duidelike uittrede-strategie vir die plan nie, wat gebruik sal maak van die tydelike werkgewer/werknemer-verligtingskema om in die volgende 12 maande byna drie-duisend werknemers teen 417-miljoen-rand te befonds. Die uitvoerende hoof, Busisiwe Mavuso, voer in haar weeklikse nuusbrief aan […]
# Olimpiese Spele: Die Australiese stad Brisbane het die herstrukturering van sy planne vir die aanbied van 2032 se Spele aangekondig en gesê dit sal jare van chaos en krisis beëindig. Die nuwe plan sluit die bou van n stadion met 60-duisend-sitplekke in. Queensland se premier, David Crisafulli, sê hulle glo hulle het ‘n plan […]
# Venezuela today received 199 citizens deported from the United States via Honduras, as president Donald Trump cracks down on undocumented foreigners. Live footage showed young men in sweatsuits walking off the plane. Some of them were seen smiling and clapping as officials looked on. The flight comes after Venezuela on Saturday announced it had […]
