# Today marks the second anniversary of the deadly Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023. One-thousand-200 people were killed in the attack, and 251 others were taken hostage. The Israeli Defence Force launched a campaign in Gaza in response. Since then, 67-thousand-160 Palestinians have been killed and about 170-thousand wounded in military operations. […]
# Die Departement van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking het bevestig dat die groep Suid-Afrikaners, wat deel was van die Global Sumud-flottielje en daarna deur Israelse owerhede aangehou is, vandag vrygelaat sal word. Die groep, insluitend Mandla Mandela en skrywer en kulturele aktivis Zukiswa Wanner, is verlede week aangehou terwyl hulle probeer het om humanitêre hulp […]
# The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell against her sex-trafficking conviction. She was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2022 for carrying out a years-long scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls. Epstein died in prison in 2019. Maxwell’s appeal centred on […]
# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has confirmed that the group of South Africans, who were part of the Global Sumud Flotilla and subsequently detained by Israeli authorities, will be released today. The group, including Mandla Mandela and writer and cultural activist Zukiswa Wanner, were detained last week while attempting to deliver humanitarian […]
# Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie sê e-sigarette dryf ‘n ontstellende nuwe golf van nikotienverslawing aan, met miljoene kinders wat tans verslaaf is aan damprook. Lande wat die data kan verskaf, toon kinders is gemiddeld nege keer meer geneig as volwassenes om e-sigarette te rook. Die VN se gesondheidsagentskap sê die bedryf bevorder damprook as minder skadelik as […]
# ‘n Israelse drukgroep wat hom beywer vir die vrylating van gyselaars in Gaza vra dat die Nobelprys vir Vrede toegeken word aan die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, vir sy vasberadenheid om vrede te bewerkstellig in die Midde-Ooste. Die forum skryf in ‘n brief aan die Noorweegse Nobel-komitee Trump het moontlik gemaak wat baie as […]
# Die Internasionale Strafhof het ’n gevreesde Soedanese guerrilla-leier skuldig bevind aan oorlogsmisdade en misdade teen die mensdom tydens wrede aanvalle in Darfur tussen Augustus 2003 en April 2004. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, ook bekend as, Ali Kushayb, is skuldig bevind aan verskeie misdade insluitende verkragting, moord en marteling. Hy sal op ‘n latere datum […]
# The International Criminal Court convicted a feared Sudanese militia chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during brutal attacks in Darfur. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known by the pseudonym Ali Kushayb, was convicted of multiple crimes including rape, murder and torture carried out between August 2003 and at least April 2004. […]
# The World Health Organisation says e-cigarettes are fuelling an “alarming” new wave of nicotine addiction, with millions of children now hooked on vaping. In countries that have the data, children are on average nine times more likely than adults to vape. The UN health agency said the industry was promoting vapes as supposedly less […]
