# Japan se minister van Verdediging, Shinjiro Koizumi, het die omstrede Yasukuni-heiligdom besoek ter herdenking van Japan se oorgawe in die Tweede Wêreldoorlog. Die heiligdom bring hulde aan sowat 2,5-miljoen Japannese wat in die oorlog dood is, insluitend 14 leiers wat skuldig bevind is aan ernstige oorlogsmisdade. China en Suid-Korea sê hierdie besoeke verbloem Japan […]
# International Relations and Cooperation minister, Ronald Lamola has called on the Southern African Development Community region to strengthen the fight against hunger. While delivered closing remarks during the meeting of SADC Council of Ministers in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, the minister commended the progress made by Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia in pushing back the frontiers […]
# A powerful magnitude-7.7 earthquake has struck eastern Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and injuring several others. The quake triggered dozens of aftershocks and small tsunami waves, with a temporary tsunami warning later lifted. Rescuers in Maumere on Flores Island found 20 bodies, while two people remained trapped under rubble. Around two-thousand residents were […]
# Japan’s Defence minister Shinjiro Koizumi has visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine as the country marked the 81st anniversary of its surrender in World War Two. The shrine honours about 2.5-million Japanese war casualties, including 14 wartime leaders convicted of serious war crimes. China and South Korea both said such visits whitewash Japan’s wartime aggression […]
# Die Suid-Koreaanse president, Lee Jae Myung, sê gesprekke moet gevoer word met Noord-Korea om die Koreaanse Oorlog amptelik te beëindig en maniere te bespreek om die Noorde se kernprogram te stop. Lee het ter viering van die 81ste Bevrydingsdag gevra vir ‘n einde aan die vyandigheid en ‘n permanente vredesregime. Die twee Koreas is […]
# Iran weier om sy standpunt oor die Seestraat van Hormoes te verander en spanning met Amerika bly hoog. Die adjunkminister van Buitelandse Sake in Iran het gesê die strategiese waterweg sal slegs op Teheran se voorwaardes heropen en het Washington aangeraai om wat hy ‘n nederlaag noem te aanvaar. Die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, […]
# South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has proposed talks with North Korea to formally end the Korean War and discuss ways to halt Pyongyang’s advancing nuclear programme. Speaking at a ceremony marking South Korea’s 81st Liberation Day, Lee called for an end to hostility and the replacement of the current armistice with a permanent […]
# Die Italiaanse polisie het drie skilderye deur die Franse meesters Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir en Henri Matisse teruggevind, wat in Maart uit ‘n museum naby Parma gesteel is. Die kultuurerfeniseenheid van die Carabinieri het die kunswerke teruggevind na ‘n ingewikkelde ondersoek. Die kunswerke se gekombineerde waarde word op meer as 168-miljoen-rand geraam. Die polisie […]
# Italian police have recovered three paintings by French masters Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse, stolen from a museum near Parma in March. The Carabinieri’s cultural heritage unit recovered the artworks following a complex investigation. Their combined value is estimated at more than 168-million-rand. Police also released footage showing two masked burglars entering […]
