# 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 […]
# A man in Austria has jumped on to a high-speed train after taking a smoke break at a station stop. According to local media reports, the man, an Algerian aged 24, realised the train had started pulling out of the station, but he took the decision to climb on to the space between two […]
# South Africa is supporting a legally binding global treaty to reduce plastic waste across its full life cycle. This as Forestry, Fisheries and Environment minister Dion George leads a South African delegation at the second part of the fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee session on Plastic Pollution in Geneva. The treaty aims to align with […]
# Tientalle soldate in Mali is in hegtenis geneem en word beskuldig van ‘n plan om die land se militêre leiers omver te werp. Dit weerspieël toenemende spanning in die militêre regering, met berigte dat ‘n jihadistiese opstand in die noorde veld wen. Mali veg sedert 2012 teen ‘n Islamitiese opstand, maar ten spyte van […]
# Palestyne bring hulde aan die vyf Al Jazeera-joernaliste wat gisteraand in ‘n Israeliese aanval dood is en hul begrafnis vandag het skares gelok in Gaza-stad. Reuters berig intussen medici by die Al Shifa-hospitaal sê ‘n sesde joernalis is ook in die aanval dood. Die Buitelandse Persvereniging het Israel versoek om aanvalle op joernaliste te […]
# Die Joodse Raad van Australië steun die land se belofte om Brittanje, Frankryk en Kanada se voorbeeld te volg en ‘n Palestynse staat te erken. Die groep het voorheen sy bedenkinge gehad oor Israel se optrede in Gaza, maar sê erkenning en stappe moet saamgevoeg word om die volksmoord te stop. Die raad sê […]
# President Volodimir Zelensky van Oekraïne waarsku oor toegewings aan die Russiese president, Vladimir Putin, voor Vrydag se samesprekings met sy Amerikaanse ampsgenoot, Donald Trump. Die beraad, wat tot dusver sonder Zelensky beplan word, sal die eerste wees tussen ‘n Amerikaanse en ‘n Russiese staatshoof sedert 2021. Kiëf is bekommerd dat ‘n ooreenkoms gesluit kan […]
# Dozens of soldiers have been arrested in Mali accused of plotting to topple the country’s military leaders. It reflects increased tensions within the military government, with reports that a jihadist insurgency in the north is gaining ground. Mali has been fighting an Islamist insurgency since 2012, but despite the military takeover attacks by jihadist […]
