# For the first time, renewables generated more power than coal globally in the first half of this year. According to new data from the global energy think tank Ember, the world generated almost a third more solar power in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2024, meeting 83-percent […]
# Die Demokratiese leier van die Senaat, Chuck Schumer, het president Donald Trump se bewering verwerp dat onderhandelinge met sy party aan die gang is. Twee voorstelle om die regering te befonds, een van die Demokrate en een van die Republikeine, het albei Maandagaand in die Senaat misluk. Dit beteken die regering se afsluiting duur […]
# The Congress of South African Trade Unions has welcomed the International Court of Justice’s case in defence of workers’ inalienable right to strike. The ICJ opened hearings on Monday to determine whether the right to strike is protected under international law. This is the first time the world’s top court has been asked to […]
# Vandag is die tweede herdenking van die dodelike Hamas-geleide aanval op die suide van Israel op 7 Oktober 2023. Een-duisend-200 mense is in die aanval dood, en nog 251 is gyselaar geneem. Die Israelse weermag het in reaksie ‘n inval in Gaza in van stapel gestuur. Sedertdien is 67-duisend-160 Palestyne dood en ongeveer 170-duisend […]
# Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has rejected president Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations with the Democrats are underway. Two proposals to fund the government, one from Democrats and one from Republicans, both failed in the Senate on Monday evening. This means the government shutdown is now in its seventh day. Schumer says if Trump […]
# Die Amerikaanse Hooggeregshof het geweier om ‘n appèl van Jeffrey Epstein se medewerker, Ghislaine Maxwell, teen haar skuldigbevinding aan sekshandel aan te hoor. Sy is in 2022 tot 20 jaar in ‘n federale tronk gevonnis vir die uitvoering van ‘n jare lange skema met Epstein om minderjarige meisies voor te berei en seksueel te […]
# 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 […]
