# Die Verenigde Nasies se Hoë Kommissaris vir Menseregte, Volker Türk, het sy kommer uitgespreek oor die toename in teregstellings en doodsvonnisse wat sedert Maart in Iran opgelê is. Ten minste 56 mense is tereggestel op aanklagte van nasionale veiligheid, insluitend 27 individue in sake wat verband hou met Januarie se landwye teen-regeringsbetogings. Teregstellings vir […]
# Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has reiterated his call to allies to provide the military hardware required to down Russian missiles. At least 17 people were killed in Kyiv and surrounding areas yesterday, as Moscow fired more than two dozen ballistic and anti-ship missiles. Russia reportedly fired 115 drones and 24 ballistic missiles, and Kyiv’s depleted […]
# Iran se ministerie van Buitelandse Sake sê hulle het ‘n ooreenkoms met Oman bereik oor die geografiese eienskappe van ‘n skeepsroete in die Straat van Hormoes. Kommersiële verkeer deur die Straat is erg ontwrig, met slegs agt skepe wat Maandag deurgegaan het. Dit is in vergelyking met ongeveer 130 skepe per dag voordat die […]
# United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has expressed alarm at the rise in executions and death sentences issued in Iran since March. At least 56 people have been executed on national security-related charges, including 27 individuals in cases linked to January’s nationwide anti-government protests. Executions for drug-related offences are also continuing at […]
# Iran’s Foreign Ministry says it has come to an agreement with Oman on the geographic characteristics of a shipping route in the Strait of Hormuz. Commercial traffic through the waterway has been heavily disrupted, with only eight vessels transiting on Monday. This is compared with roughly 130 ships per day before the US-Israel war […]
# Pakistan het nuwe beperkings op buitelandse media ingestel, wat vereis dat joernaliste en medewerkers wat vir internasionale nuusorganisasies werk, toestemming van die regering moet verkry voordat hulle buite Islamabad, Karachi en Lahore verslag lewer. Mediavryheidsgroepe sê die reëls sal onafhanklike beriggewing moeiliker maak en kan die dekking van groot gebeure vertraag. Die regering dring […]
# Die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola, sê Suid-Afrika ondersteun die Afrika-Unie se langdurige besluit om ‘n migrasiekonferensie vir die vasteland byeen te roep. Lamola het tydens ‘n inligtingsessie aan die media gesê die byeenkoms moet migrasie aanspreek, asook vrede, ekonomiese ontwikkeling, streeksintegrasie en demokratiese regering. Hy sê die konferensie moet ook […]
# Die Wêreldbank sê kunsmatige intelligensie kan produktiwiteit en ekonomiese groei in ontwikkelende lande aansienlik verhoog as regerings in die regte grondbeginsels belê. Volgens die Wêreldontwikkelingsverslag vir 2026 kan KI produktiwiteit in meer as 16-persent van werksgeleenthede in ontwikkelende ekonomieë betekenisvol verbeter. Hoofekonoom, Indermit Gill, sê lande het nie gevorderde KI-modelle nodig om voordeel te […]
# Pakistan has introduced new restrictions on foreign media, requiring journalists and contributors working for international news organisations to obtain government permission before reporting outside Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore. Media freedom groups say the rules will make independent reporting more difficult and could delay coverage of major events. The government insists the measures are intended […]
