# A report shows the glacier that collapsed and triggered the deadly flash floods in Nepal and Tibet last week, showed visible signs of instability days before the disaster. The death toll stands at over one-thousand-100, with some four-thousand people still missing. The report, compiled by a group of international scientists, states pre-event indications included […]
# Golf: Fifteen-time major champion Tiger Woods, who is scheduled to appear in a Florida court today, is reportedly set to change his not guilty plea as part of an ongoing driving under the influence case. The 50-year-old was arrested after he crashed his Land Rover in Florida in March. He passed a breathalyser test but […]
# The US Congress has passed an extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act until the end of 2028. This followed Senate’s approval last month. AGOA was first enacted in 2000 to provide duty-free access to the US market for eligible Sub-Saharan countries, including South Africa, covering over one-thousand-800 products. Democratic Congresswoman Terri Sewell […]
# China’s National Energy Administration says at the end of July, the country’s installed solar power capacity reached 1.286-billion kilowatts. For the first time, photovoltaic installed capacity surpassed coal-fired power, becoming the largest power source category in China. During the first seven months of 2026 alone, China added more than 86 gigawatts of new solar […]
# Oekraïne se president, Volodimir Zelensky, waarsku lugrederye en passasiers om die Russiese lugruim te vermy en sê dit word al onveiliger. Kiëf het sy lugruim vir burgerlike vliegtuie gesluit toe die oorlog begin het. Lugrederye van China, Turkye en die Golf-state is onder dié wat die Russiese lugruim gebruik. Zelensky sê sy land gaan […]
# Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has warned airlines and passengers against using Russian airspace, saying it is becoming completely unsafe. Kyiv closed its airspace to civilian aircraft at the beginning of the war. Chinese, Turkish and Gulf state airlines are among those using Russian airspace. Zelensky says his country will be escalating its drone strikes […]
# Duitsland het ʼn reeks nuwe maatreëls teen Rusland aangekondig nadat hy Moskou beskuldig het van verlede maand se hommeltuigaanval op die Leipzig/Halle-lughawe. ʼn Hommeltuig met plofstof is in ʼn beveiligde gebied van die lughawe naby ʼn Oekraïnse vragvliegtuig gevind wat gebruik is om militêre voorrade te vervoer. Dit het vermoedelik weens ʼn foutiewe slagdop […]
# Die Gautengse Gesondheidsdepartement het 18 jongmense uit arm gemeenskappe in die provinsie gekies om deur die Nelson Mandela Fidel Castro Mediese Opleidingsprogram medies in Kuba te studeer. Die groep is uit twee-duisend-480 aansoekers aangewys ná ʼn mededingende werwingsproses wat in Mei 2025 begin het. Die departement se woordvoerder, Steve Mabona, sê die Kubaanse model […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa het gister die president van die Internasionale Komitee van die Rooikruis, Mirjana Spoljaric, in Pretoria ontmoet, vir gesprekke oor die bevordering van respek vir internasionale humanitêre reg en oorlogsreëls. Suid-Afrika is een van die ses stigterslande van die Globale Internasionale Humanitêre Regsinisiatief, wat 118 state insluit, waaronder 27 Afrikalande. Spoljaric sê […]
