# The Department of Water and Sanitation is calling on South-Africans to support 17-year-old Sikhulile Nkosi as he prepares to represent the country at the Stockholm Junior Water Prize in Sweden later this month. The Grade 11 learner from Sitintile Secondary School in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, won the South-African Youth Water Prize for developing an innovative […]
# President Donald Trump van Amerika sê die Straat van Hormoes sal binnekort heropen, want anders sal hy geen keuse hê as ʼn verwoestende nuwe aanval op Iran nie. Teheran ontken dat hy regstreeks met Washington onderhandel, en hou vol dat hy saam met Oman aan ʼn ooreenkoms werk om die Straat te heropen. Die […]
# US president Donald Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened very soon, or he will have no other choice but to launch a harsh new attack on Iran. Tehran has denied it is holding direct discussions with Washington; instead, it has emphasised that it is working with Oman on an arrangement to […]
# Israel se eerste minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sê sy land se weermag gaan nie sy huidige posisies in Gaza opgee voor Hamas heeltemal ontwapen is nie. Dit kom te midde van meningsverskille oor ʼn voorstel van president Donald Trump van Amerika se Vredesraad dat Hamas volgens ʼn skietstilstandooreenkoms ontwapen word en Israel uit Gaza onttrek. […]
# Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Israeli Defence Force will not withdraw from its current lines in Gaza until Hamas has completely disarmed. This comes amid disagreements over a roadmap floated by US president Donald Trump’s Board of Peace for Hamas disarmament and Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza under a ceasefire agreement. The IDF […]
# Amerika se minister van Buitelandse Sake, Marco Rubio, sê onderhandelinge met Iran en Oman oor die Straat van Hormoes vorder, maar geen finale ooreenkoms is bereik nie. Die olieprys het gister tot die laagste vlak in drie weke gedaal, en ʼn vaatjie Brent-ru-olie was byna vyf-persent goedkoper. Teheran sê hy onderhandel net met Oman […]
# Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie sê vordering word gemaak vir beter behandeling en die wêreld se eerste entstof vir die Bundibugyo-stam van Ebola. Drieduisend-748 gevalle, insluitend eenduisend-657 sterftes, is aangeteken in die grootste Ebola-uitbraak ooit in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo. Kliniese toetse met medisyne en behandelingsmoontlikhede word in die middelpunt van die uitbraak in die Ituri-provinsie […]
# The World Health Organisation says efforts are advancing towards enhanced treatment and the world’s first vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola. Three-thousand-748 cases, including one-thousand-657 deaths, have been recorded in the largest-ever Ebola outbreak on record in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Clinical trials of medicine and treatment options are rolling out […]
# Katar se ministerie van Buitelandse Sake sê pogings om ‘n diplomatieke oplossing tussen die VSA en Iran te bereik duur voort, maar geen regstreekse onderhandelinge tussen die twee lande is geskeduleer nie. Daar was teenstrydige verklarings van beide Washington en Teheran oor die hervatting van gesprekke. Die ministerie se woordvoerder, Majed al-Ansari, sê bemiddelaars […]
