# Demokrate in die Amerikaanse Senaat het die Israelse eerste minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, versoek om die toename in geweld deur Israelse setlaars op die besette Wesoewer en Israelse veiligheidsmagte se massa-inhegtenisnemings van Palestyne hok te slaan. Twee-en-veertig uit die 47 lede van die Demokratiese koukus in die Senaat het ‘n skrywe aan Netanyahu onderteken oor […]
# Duisende Dolly Parton-aanhangers het blomme, ballonne en kaartjies by die huis van die Amerikaanse musiekikoon gelaat. Parton is gister op 80-jarige ouderdom in Tennessee oorlede. Kanker is vroeër as die oorsaak van haar dood onthul nadat sy die diagnose privaat gehou het. Parton het meer as drie-duisend liedjies geskryf en meer as 100-miljoen plate […]
# Ten minste nege mense is dood en honderde toeriste word vermis na ‘n verwoestende kitsvloed langs Nepal se grens met Tibet. Reuters berig 384 reisigers, insluitend 291 buitelandse burgers, word vermis. Dorpies, paaie, brûe en hidro-elektriese projekte is meegesleur in die bergagtige Rasuwa-distrik. Owerhede sê ‘n modderstorting is moontlik veroorsaak deur ‘n aardbewing van […]
# A devastating flash flood has killed at least nine people and left hundreds of tourists missing along Nepal’s border with Tibet. Reuters reports 384 travellers, including 291 foreign nationals, are unaccounted for. Villages, roads, bridges and hydropower projects were swept away in the mountainous Rasuwa district. Authorities say a mudslide may have been triggered […]
# Thousands of fans left flowers, balloons and cards at the home of American music icon Dolly Parton, who died aged 80 in Tennessee yesterday. Cancer was earlier revealed as the cause of her death after she kept the diagnosis private. Parton wrote over three-thousand songs and sold over 100-million records through a career spanning […]
# Die Brasiliaanse minister van Buitelandse Sake, Mauro Vieira, sê ‘n handelsending uit verskeie sektore is in Suid-Afrika om wedersydse voordelige geleenthede te ondersoek. Hy het tydens die agtste vergadering van die Suid-Afrika-Brasilië gesamentlike kommissie in Pretoria, samewerking in handel, wetenskap en tegnologie beklemtoon, veral in ruimtewetenskap, mariene navorsing en gesondheid. Vieira sê albei lande […]
# ‘n Man van KwaZulu-Natal gaan die volgende aantal jare in ‘n Amerikaanse tronk deurbring nadat hy skuld erken het op aanklagte van die verspreiding en besit van inhoud wat die seksuele misbruik van kinders uitbeeld. Die 45-jarige Marcell Meyer het op ‘n plaas in Sackets Harbor, New York, gewerk. Die Distrikshof in Albany het […]
# Brazilian Foreign minister Mauro Vieira says a multisectoral Brazilian trade mission is in South Africa to explore mutually beneficial opportunities. Speaking during the eighth South Africa-Brazil Joint Commission in Pretoria, Vieira highlighted trade, science and technology cooperation, particularly in space science, ocean research and health. Vieira also said that both countries can strengthen vaccine […]
# U.S. Senate Democrats urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in a “surge” of violence by West Bank settlers and mass arrests of Palestinians by Israeli security forces in the occupied territory. In the letter to Netanyahu and signed by 42 of the Senate’s 47-member Democratic caucus, the lawmakers noted increasing levels of […]
