# The US’ recent inflation rates coming in higher than expected, and Brent crude sitting at way over 100-dollar a barrel, will indirectly filter through to South Africa. This is according to KPMG South Africa’s lead economist, Frank Blackmore. He says the persistent conflict in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of […]
# OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world should trust artificial intelligence companies to do the right thing because they feel the magnitude of acting responsibly. There have been growing concerns recently about the technology’s potential risks, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calling for the pace of all AI development to slow down and urging […]
# Eerste minister Mark Carney sê Kanada wil ʼn uitsonderlike ekonomiese en veiligheidsalliansie met die Europese Unie aangaan. Ottawa wil sy ekonomiese afhanklikheid van die Verenigde State verminder nadat die handelsoorlog tussen dié twee lande die afgelope maand verskerp het. Sedert handelsgesprekke verlede maand skielik ineengestort het, probeer die twee lande mekaar, wat tariewe betref, […]
# Prime minister Mark Carney says Canada is pursuing a unique security and economic alliance with the European Union. This as Ottawa is seeking to reduce its economic dependence on the US, as the trade war between the two countries has deepened over the last month. After trade talks suddenly collapsed last month, the two […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies sê die dodelike Ebola-uitbreking in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo versprei oor die land, ten spyte van ʼn mate van sukses om dit te beperk. Sewe-duisend-200 Ebola-gevalle is aangemeld en byna drie-duisend-500 mense is daaraan dood. Hierdie uitbreking is die tweede ergste op rekord. Die ergste was die een in Wes-Afrika […]
# President Donald Trump het die Hooggeregshof se besluit gekritiseer om sy plan te blokkeer om posstemme te beperk voor die November-middeltermynverkiesing. Hy het in Maart ‘n uitvoerende bevel onderteken wat die Amerikaanse Posdiens gelas om stembriewe slegs aan Amerikaanse burgers af te lewer, met die argument dat die reëlverandering verkiesingsbedrog sal bestry. Regter Brett […]
# The United Nations says the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to spread across the country despite some success in containing it. Seven-thousand-200 Ebola cases have been recorded, with nearly three-thousand-500 deaths. The outbreak is the second most lethal on record, behind one in West Africa that lasted […]
# US president Donald Trump has criticised the Supreme Court’s decision to block his plan to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the November midterm elections. He had signed an executive order in March directing the US Postal Service to deliver ballots only to voters on lists of American citizens, arguing the rule change would combat […]
# Trade union Solidarity has filed a complaint with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Washington, DC, against Amazon Web Services over a business development programme that requires applicants to be 100-percent black-owned. Solidarity’s Dirk Hermann says the requirement unfairly excludes businesses with any white ownership and goes beyond what South African law […]
