# Canadian prime minister Mark Carney says trade talks with the US can resume when Washington gets serious about negotiations. Last week, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America, a move rejected by Canadians. The Trump administration has levied 50-percent tariffs on Canadian goods, while […]
# Parliament’s Impeachment Committee chairperson, Makashule Gana, has given political parties until Friday to submit further nominations for an evidence leader. The committee rescinded its decision to recommend advocate Thandazani Madonsela as the evidence leader of its inquiry into president Cyril Ramaphosa over the Phala Phala saga. Ramaphosa objected to the appointment, citing potential conflicts […]
# Nepal’s Foreign minister, Shisir Khanal, says he remains hopeful that the nearly four-thousand people still missing following last week’s deadly flash floods can still be rescued alive. Among the missing are over 600 workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of mud-filled tunnels at hydropower sites along the Trishuli River. The death […]
# Cricket: South Africa claimed a 43-run win over Zimbabwe in their Namibian T20 tri-series contest to all but secure their spot in the final in Windhoek. Lhuan-dré Pretorius scored 94 runs from 51 balls and shared an opening partnership of 68 with Jordan Hermann before a second-wicket stand of 86 with Dewald Brevis. The […]
# The Electoral Commission says it has not given the ANC an additional opportunity beyond the 5 pm deadline of Friday last week to submit its candidate nomination lists. The party failed to submit its lists for several Eastern Cape municipalities owing to ‘technical issues’ with the commission’s candidate-capture system. The ANC claimed it was […]
# Tennis: Die Switserse veteraan Stan Wawrinka se laaste Grand Slam-toernooi het in die eerste ronde van die Amerikaanse Ope, tot ‘n einde gekom toe hy teen die Italianer Matteo Berrettini verloor het. Die 41-jarige Wawrinka tree die einde van die seisoen uit na hy in 2002 op 17 ‘n beroepspeler geword het. Hy het […]
# Die minister van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling, Dina Pule, het Ilitha Labantu geprys vir sy bydrae in die stryd teen geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord. Die Kaapstadse nie-winsgewende organisasie fokus op die bekamping van geweld teen vroue en kinders en bied slagoffers ondersteuning. Die departement se woordvoerder, Sandy Godlwana, sê alle beskikbare hulpbronne moet aangewend word om geweld […]
# The death toll from last week’s flash flooding disaster on the border between Nepal and Tibet has now topped one-thousand. The number of people missing has been revised to three-thousand-916, of whom more than 600 are workers believed to be trapped inside mud-filled hydropower tunnels in Nepal. Over on the Chinese Tibet side, at […]
# American music legend Lionel Richie has reportedly checked himself into a hospital out of an abundance of caution following a performance in St Louis over the weekend. The 77-year-old Grammy winner experienced dizziness and dehydration during his concert. Richie’s hospitalisation comes more than two months after he experienced dizziness onstage during the opening night […]
