# Verskeie mense is dood in ‘n botsing tussen ‘n trein en ‘n skoolvervoer-minibus in Buggenhout, België. Die Vlaamse openbare uitsaaier VRT berig die minibus, met sewe kinders, ‘n toesighouer en die bestuurder was op ‘n spooroorgang in die dorp toe die ongeluk plaasgevind het. Federale polisiewoordvoerder An Berger sê die botsing was kort na […]
# Pous Leo het die duidelikste verskoning van ‘n pous tot nog toe uitgereik oor die Katolieke Kerk se rol in slawerny, en erken vertraging met die veroordeling daarvan en die geskiedkundige betrokkenheid by die regverdiging daarvan. Leo het in sy eerste brief aan biskoppe en die wêreldgemeenskap gesê dit het die kerk eeue geneem […]
# Johannesburg-born singer Tyla has won two awards at the 52nd American Music Awards in Las Vegas. She took home Best Afrobeats, beating stars including Burna Boy and Wizkid, and also won Social Song of the Year for her hit Chanel. The win makes her the first international artist to claim the social song award. […]
# Several people have been killed in a collision between a train and a school minibus in Buggenhout in Belgium. The Flemish public broadcaster VRT reported the minibus with seven children, a chaperone and the driver were on a level crossing in the town when the accident happened. Federal police spokeswoman An Berger said the […]
# Pope Leo issued the clearest apology yet from a pontiff for the Catholic Church’s role in slavery, acknowledging both its delay in condemning the practice and its historic involvement in legitimising it. In a key passage of his first papal letter to bishops and the global public, Leo says the church had taken centuries to […]
# Australië se hoofspioenasie-agentskap waarsku dat die terreurbedreiging in die land ‘n kommerwekkende wending geneem het. Dit volg op die aanval op Bondi-strand tydens ‘n Joodse Hanukkah-viering in Desember verlede jaar waarin 15 mense dood is. Die direkteur-generaal van die Australiese Veiligheidsintelligensie-organisasie, Mike Burgess, sê jare se toename in anti-Semitisme het bygedra tot hul besluit […]
# Australia’s main spy agency has warned the country’s terror threat level is on a concerning trajectory. This follows the Bondi Beach attack that killed 15 people attending a Jewish Hanukkah celebration in December last year. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s director-general, Mike Burgess, says the spike in anti-Semitic incidents over the years has contributed to […]
# Israel se eerste minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sê hy het die Leër opdrag gegee om aanvalle teen die Irans-gesteunde Hizbollah in Libanon te verskerp. Dit volg ondanks Israel en Libanon se ooreenkoms om die skietstilstand van 45-dae te verleng. Hizbollah het sedert die skietstilstand hommeltuie met plofkoppe op Israelse magte en noord-Israelse dorpe afgevuur waarin […]
# Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the military to intensify its attacks on Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. This is despite Lebanon and Israel agreeing to extend a 45-day ceasefire earlier this month. Since the ceasefire, Hezbollah has fired explosive drones at Israeli forces and northern Israeli towns, killing at least eleven […]
