# US special envoy Steve Witkoff has asked Russian president Vladimir Putin to consider several proposals agreed in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, including renewing trilateral peace talks with Ukraine to try to end the war. Witkoff met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Oslo on Tuesday and Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia, yesterday. Zelensky stated that […]
# Noord-Korea het sy grens-soldate opdrag gegee om vinnig en daadwerklik op te tree indien Suid-Koreaanse magte hul veiligheid bedreig aangesien dit die gevaar van konflik langs die swaar bewaakte grens verhoog. Die waarskuwing volg na die senior militêre amptenaar, Pak Jong Chon, en die Noord-Koreaanse leier, Kim Jong Un se suster, Kim Yo Jong, […]
# Pous Leo die Veertiende het teruggekeer na die Sint-Pietersplein in die Vatikaanstad, waar hy pelgrims gegroet en babas vanuit sy Pousmobiel geseën het. Dit volg agt dae ná ‘n operasie om ‘n kankeragtige gewas aan sy regterlong te verwyder. Die 71-jarige pous het ook sy eerste weeklikse algemene oudiënsie sedert die operasie gehou en […]
# ‘n Haai wat ‘n groot trekpleister in die Suid-Koreaanse stad Busan geword het, is uiteindelik uit die kanaal gelei waarin sy langer as ‘n maand vasgekeer was. Owerhede se derde reddingspoging was suksesvol. Nette, drywende platforms en duikers is gebruik om die drie-meter-lange bronshaai, met die bynaam Bukangi, na die uitgang te stuur. Sy […]
# Rusland het ‘n afgetrede onderwyser en Amerikaanse burger Stephen Hubbard, wat langer as vier jaar in aanhouding was weens beskuldigings dat hy vir Oekraïne geveg het, vrygelaat. Die Russiese president, Vladimir Putin, het die vrylating tydens gesprekke met die Amerikaanse gesant, Steve Witkoff, in Sint Petersburg aangekondig. Die 74-jarige Hubbard is ná ‘n geslote […]
# Die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, waarsku oor onluste soortgelyk aan dié in Frankryk indien die Demokrate die middeltermynverkiesing wen. Hy het tydens ‘n verkiesingsbyeenkoms in Kansas immigrante en linksgesinde politici die skuld gegee vir die geweld in Frankryk en beweer die Demokrate wil soortgelyke chaos in Amerika veroorsaak. Trump het ‘n veldtog gevoer vir […]
# Pope Leo the Fourteenth has returned to St Peter’s Square in the Vatican, greeting pilgrims and blessing babies from his popemobile, eight days after surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from his right lung. The 71-year-old pontiff also held his first weekly general audience since the operation, thanking the crowds for their support and […]
# A shark that became a major attraction in the South Korean city of Busan has finally been guided out of the canal where she had been trapped for more than a month. Authorities succeeded in their third rescue attempt, using nets, floating platforms and divers to steer the three-metre female dusky shark, nicknamed Bukangi, […]
# Russia has released American citizen Stephen Hubbard, a retired teacher who had been imprisoned for more than four years on accusations of fighting for Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the release during talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg. The 74-year-old Hubbard was sentenced to almost seven years in prison after […]
