# President Donald Trump het twyfel uitgespreek of sy ontmoeting Vrydag met die Russiese president Vladimir Putin in Alaska ‘n verskil sal maak in die bereiking van ‘n vredesooreenkoms. Hy het die ontmoeting beskryf as ‘n vergadering om die water te toets. Trump sê hoewel die Oekraïnse president Volodymyr Zelensky nie deel van die vergadering […]
# Members of the European Parliament say no peace can be negotiated without the full participation of Ukraine’s democratically elected leadership and the backing of its people. This comes as US president Donald Trump is set to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Friday, a step aimed at achieving a ceasefire. Members of […]
# US president Donald Trump has expressed scepticism that his meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday will make a difference in reaching a peace deal. He has described the meeting as a feel-out meeting. Trump says that while Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy wouldn’t be a part of the meeting, he would […]
# Suid-Afrika ondersteun ‘n wetlik-bindende wêreldwye verdrag om plastiek deur die totale lewensiklus van die produk te verminder. Die minister van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing, Dion George, lei ‘n Suid-Afrikaanse afvaardiging na die tweede deel van die vyfde Inter-regering Onderhandelingkomittee oor plastiekbesoedeling in Genève. Die verdrag probeer om klimaat- en biodiversiteitsdoelwitte te belyn terwyl […]
# Gesprekke in Genève om ‘n mylpaalverdrag op te stel om die wêreldwye plaag plastiekbesoedeling aan te pak, het sy tweede week betree, met lande wat vier dae voor die sperdatum steeds koppe stamp. Plastiekbesoedeling kom so algemeen voor dat mikroplastiek op die hoogste bergpieke en in die diepste dele van die oseaan gevind is, […]
# ‘n Man in Oostenryk het op ‘n hoëspoedtrein gespring nadat hy by ‘n stasie afgeklim het om gou vinnig ‘n dampie te maak. Plaaslike media berig die man, ‘n 24-jarige Algeryn, het besef die trein begin wegtrek en het besluit om op die spasie tussen twee waens te spring. Hy het teen die vensters […]
# ‘n Britse rugsaktoeris wat in Wes-Australië op ‘n werksvakansievisum was, het skuldig gepleit aan die moord op ‘n man wat sy met ‘n e-bromponie raakgery het met ‘n bloedalkoholvlak meer as drie keer die wettige perk. Die 25-jarige Alicia Kemp en ‘n vriend het die bromponie gehuur nadat hulle by ‘n kroeg uitgeskop is. […]
# A British backpacker who was in Western Australia on a working holiday visa, has pleaded guilty to killing a man after hitting him while riding an e-scooter with an alcohol level more than three times the legal limit. The 25-year old Alicia Kemp and a friend hired an e-scooter after being kicked out of […]
# Talks in Geneva to craft a landmark treaty to tackle the global scourge of plastic pollution entered its second week, with countries still at loggerheads four days before a deadline. Plastic pollution is so commonplace that microplastics have been found on the highest mountain peaks, in the deepest ocean trench and scattered throughout almost […]
