# Germany has announced a slew of new measures against Russia, after blaming Moscow for being behind last month’s drone attack targeting the Leipzig/Halle Airport. A drone containing explosives was discovered near a Ukrainian cargo aircraft used to transport military supplies inside a secure area of the airport. However, it failed to explode as the […]
# The Gauteng Department of Health has selected 18 young people from disadvantaged communities across the province to study medicine in Cuba through the Nelson Mandela Fidel Castro Medical Training Programme. The group was selected from two-thousand-480 applicants following a competitive recruitment process launched in May 2025. The department’s spokesperson, Steve Mabona, says the Cuban […]
# Die Amerikaanse weermag het nuwe lugaanvalle op Iranse teikens uitgevoer. Vier mense, insluitend ʼn vierjarige kind, is volgens berigte dood en meer as 50 beseer. Amerika se Sentrale Bevel sê die aanvalle volg na onlangse pogings van die Islamitiese Rewolusionêre Wagkorps om handelskepe in die Straat van Hormoes aan te val. Teheran het uit […]
# Kanada se eerste minister, Mark Carney, sê handelsgesprekke met Amerika kan hervat word wanneer Washington ernstig raak oor onderhandelings. President Donald Trump van Amerika het verlede week ʼn uitvoerende bevel onderteken wat Lake Ontario se naam na Lake America verander – ʼn stap wat die Kanadese verwerp. Die Trump-administrasie het tariewe van 50-persent op […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa met with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, in Pretoria yesterday, for discussions on strengthening respect for international humanitarian law and the rules of war. South Africa is one of the six founding states of the Global International Humanitarian Law Initiative, which has mobilised 118 […]
# Nepal se minister van Buitelandse Sake, Shisir Khanal, sê hy hoop steeds die byna vierduisend mense wat vermis word na verlede week se dodelike kitsvloede, kan nog gered word. Onder die vermistes is meer as 600 werkers wat vermoedelik vasgekeer is in ‘n groot netwerk van moddergevulde tonnels by hidrokragaanlegte langs die Trishuli-rivier. Die […]
# The US military launched new airstrikes on Iranian targets, leaving four people dead, including a four-year-old child, and more than 50 injured. The US Central Command says the strikes followed recent attempted attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. In retaliation, Tehran targeted American interests in […]
# Canadian prime minister Mark Carney says trade talks with the US can resume when Washington gets serious about negotiations. Last week, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America, a move rejected by Canadians. The Trump administration has levied 50-percent tariffs on Canadian goods, while […]
# Nepal’s Foreign minister, Shisir Khanal, says he remains hopeful that the nearly four-thousand people still missing following last week’s deadly flash floods can still be rescued alive. Among the missing are over 600 workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of mud-filled tunnels at hydropower sites along the Trishuli River. The death […]
