# The International Energy Agency warns should there be no progress on ending the Middle Eastern war, the oil market risks will enter a red zone by the end of July. Attacks on energy infrastructure and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz have removed more than 14-million barrels of Middle Eastern oil supply […]
# Union federation Cosatu has welcomed the International Court of Justice’s ruling in defence of workers’ inalienable right to strike. The court ruled that the right to strike is protected under the International Labour Organisation’s 1948 Freedom of Association treaty. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says to strike is a critical tool of collective bargaining:
# Amerika se minister van Buitelandse Sake, Marco Rubio, sê Kuba is reeds jare lank ʼn bedreiging vir Amerika weens sy bande met dié land se vyande. Dit volg nadat Amerika strafregtelike klagtes teen Kuba se voormalige leier, Raúl Castro, ingedien het. President Donald Trump het voorheen gesê hy wil ʼn regime-verandering sien op die […]
# US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, says Cuba has been a national security threat for years because of its ties to American adversaries. This comes as the US has announced criminal charges against Cuba’s former leader, Raúl Castro. President Donald Trump has previously said he wants regime change on the island, which has been […]
# Betogers het gister twee hospitaaltente waar Ebola-pasiënte in die ooste van die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo behandel word, aan die brand gesteek. Dit volg nadat ʼn jong man wat aan die siekte dood is, se familie verbied is om sy liggaam weg te neem en te begrawe. Ses pasiënte het ten tyde van die […]
# Protesters set alight two hospital tents treating Ebola patients in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday. This comes after relatives of a young man thought to have died from the virus were prevented from taking his body away for burial. Six patients were receiving treatment in the medical tents at the time of […]
# Israel sê hy het al die buitelandse aktiviste wat aangehou is nadat hul Global Sumud-flottielje Maandag in internasionale water op pad na Gaza onderskep is, gedeporteer. Altesaam 422 aktiviste, insluitend ses Suid-Afrikaners, is gister op drie vliegtuie van die Turkse lugredery uit die suide van Israel gevlieg. Meer as 50 bote was deel van […]
# Suid-Afrika se ambassadeur in Amerika, Roelf Meyer, sê hy is vriendelik by die Withuis ontvang en sien uit daarna om die land te verteenwoordig. Hy het gister sy geloofsbriewe aan president Donald Trump van Amerika oorhandig. Hy vervang Ebrahim Rasool na meer as ʼn jaar van spanning tussen Pretoria en Washington. Meyer het aan […]
# Solidariteit sê met Amerika se verlenging van die Wet op Groei en Geleenthede in Afrika moet die regering die spreekwoordelike olyftak van Washington aangryp. President Donald Trump van Amerika het ʼn proklamasie uitgevaardig dat die belastingvrye toegewing onder die AGOA-ooreenkoms aan lande suid van die Sahara, tot 31 Desember vanjaar verleng word. Solidariteit sê […]
