# Die Amerikaanse gesant, Steve Witkoff, het met Rusland se voorste ekonomiese onderhandelaar, Kirill Dmitriev, in St Petersburg vergader. Die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, plaas druk op Moskou en Oekraïne om gevegte na meer as drie-jaar te beëindig, maar is woedend vir presidente Vladimir Putin en Volodimir Zelensky oor die gebrek aan vordering. Beeldmateriaal van […]
# Workers have been told to hurry home, classes have been suspended and outdoor events have been cancelled as northern China braces for extreme winds this weekend. Winds reaching 150 kilometres per hour are expected to sweep the north of the country from today till Sunday, as a cold vortex moves southeast from Mongolia. Strong […]
# The head of the US military base in Greenland has been fired over an alleged email in which she distanced herself from vice-president JD Vance’s criticism of Denmark. The US military says Colonel Susannah Meyers has been removed from her role at Pituffik Space Base due to a “loss of confidence in her ability […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare verwelkom die Onafhanklike Polisie Ondersoekdirektoraat se besluit om ‘n brief terug te trek waarin die polisiekommissaris van KwaZulu-Natal, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, se reaksie op anonieme bewerings versoek word. Hy word beskuldig vir die beskerming van ‘n tronkbeampte wat handel dryf in dwelms. Mkhwanazi het die bewerings van die hand gewys en […]
# Dominican Republic authorities have ended their rescue operation and turned to recovery efforts following the collapse of a nightclub roof on Tuesday, which left at least 220 people dead and 189 people rescued alive from the rubble. An official statement from the country’s Emergency Centre on Wednesday said that “all reasonable possibilities of finding […]
# AfriForum vra die publiek om die ministerie van Polisie se plan te verwerp om wapens van privaat sekerheidsmaatskappye weg te neem. Die burgerregte-groep glo dit sal gemeenskappe onveiliger maak en moeiliker maak om hulle te beskerm, veral waar die polisie onvoldoende personeel het. Die publiek het tot 25 April om besware in te dien. […]
# Die DA verwelkom die minister van Binnelandse Sake, Leon Schreiber se aankondiging dat die Grensbestuursowerheid gevorderde hommeltuigtegnologie en liggaamskameras gaan gebruik om Suid-Afrika se grense te beveilig en korrupsie aan te pak. Die DA-lid, Teboho Sekaledi, sê die hommeltuie sal verseker die owerheid se personeeltekort word aangespreek met die gebruik van moderne tegnologie:
# A major Australian fertility clinic has apologised for giving the wrong embryo to a woman who then gave birth to another couple’s baby. Monash IVF operates more than 100 clinics across Australia. The clinic has not named the couples involved, nor has it responded to questions about when the baby was born, or who […]
# A zoo in England has welcomed the birth of twins to a pair of critically endangered cotton-top tamarins. The babies, born on 3 April, are the third set of offspring for parents Gurt and Mico at Marwell Zoo near Winchester in Hampshire. The species is critically endangered mainly due to deforestation, habitat destruction and […]
