# Britain is on heightened alert following an attack outside a Manchester synagogue. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who visited the scene of the car ramming and stabbing spree, said security would be boosted at synagogues nationwide as calls to protect Britain’s Jewish community intensified. Thursday’s attack, which also left three wounded, took place on Yom […]
# Indië en China gaan regstreekse vlugte hervat ná ‘n vyf-jaar-lange opskorting. Vlugte tussen die twee lande met die grootste bevolkingsgetalle ter wêreld is tydens die Covid-19-pandemie in 2020 opgeskort en namate spanning tussen Beijing en Nieu-Delhi oor grensgeskille toegeneem het, is die vlugte nie hervat nie. Betrekkinge tussen die Asiatiese mededingers het sedertdien verbeter, […]
# Dame Sarah Mullally is aangewys as die eerste vroulike Aartsbiskop van Kantelberg in die byna 500-jaar geskiedenis van die Kerk van Engeland. Sy het in haar eerste toespraak belowe dat sy in haar nuwe rol sal luister na oorlewendes en die kwesbares. Sy het gesê haat en rassisme van enige aard mag nie toegelaat […]
# India and China will resume direct flights between their two countries this month after a five-year suspension. Direct flights between the world’s two most populous countries were suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and were not resumed as tensions grew between Beijing and New Delhi over border disputes. Relations between the Asian rivals […]
# ‘n Algemene staking in Italië ter ondersteuning van die Gaza-hulpflottielje ontwrig treinedienste en meer chaos word vir pendelaars verwag op die tweede dag van betogings in Rome. Die staking volg na betogings gister in verskeie stede oor die wêreld, insluitend Milan en Rome, waar ongeveer tien-duisend mense van die Colosseum af betoog het. Betogers […]
# Die algemene werkersvakbond, GIWUSA, doen ‘n beroep op alle vakbonde en mense wat regverdigheid aanhang, om vir ‘n Nasionale Dag van Aksie saam te staan. Die president van GIWUSA, Mametlwe Sebei, sê die dag is daarop gemik om druk op die regering te plaas om dadelik alle handelsooreenkomste met Israel te staak en ‘n […]
# Spain’s leftist government has proposed anchoring the right to abortion in the constitution following a move by the Madrid municipal council to inform women about a supposed “post-abortion syndrome”. The controversy erupted when the council, controlled by the conservative Popular Party approved a far-right proposal to require medical services to notify women seeking abortions […]
# Dame Sarah Mullally has been named as the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England’s almost 500-year history. In her first address she pledged that in her new role she will listen to survivors and the vulnerable. She said hatred and racism of any kind cannot be allowed to tear people […]
# A general strike in Italy in support of the Gaza aid flotilla disrupted trains and threatened more commuter chaos today in a second day of demonstrations in Rome. The strike follows demonstrations yesterday in several cities across the world, including in Milan and Rome, where some ten-thousand people marched from the Colosseum. Protesters began […]
