# The Global Sumud Flotilla says independent investigations, including by the United Nations, have repeatedly found no weapons on aid convoys, yet Israel has used false security claims as a pretext to justify violent attacks. The organisation’s steering committee member Yasemin Acar warned that the same tactics are now being deployed against the flotilla sailing […]
# Trade union Solidarity has urged the White House to have president Donald Trump sign an executive order granting tariff relief for South African industries, including automotive, agriculture, textiles, and mining. This comes days before the African Growth and Opportunity Act is set to expire. Solidarity spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans argues such relief would protect workers […]
# Die Palestynse leier Mahmud Abbas het enige toekomstige rol vir Hamas verwerp en anti-Semitisme veroordeel. Hy het ‘n beroep gedoen vir algehele wêreldwye steun vir ‘n Palestynse staat te midde van Israel se dreigemente oor besetting. Enkele dae nadat Frankryk ‘n spesiale beraad gelei het waar verskeie Westerse moondhede ‘n Palestynse staat erken het, […]
# Hoofman Zwelivelile Mandela sê die globale Sumud-flottielje staar binne die volgende 48-uur die bedreiging van gewelddadige eskalasie vanaf Israel in die gesig. Mandela het tydens ‘n nood-nuuskonferensie gewaarsku geloofwaardige intelligensie dui aan pogings kan aangewend word om bote te sink of deelnemers te beseer terwyl die flottielje vaar om die Gaza-seeblokkade te verbreek. Hy […]
# Die voormalige president, Nicolas Sarkozy sal Frankryk se eerste na-oorlogse leier word om tronk toe te gaan, nadat ‘n hof hom tot vyf jaar tronkstraf gevonnis het oor ‘n skema waarin die oorlede Libiese diktator Moammar Kadhafi, Sarkozy se presidensiële verkiesing in 2007 befonds het. Die hof het hom skuldig bevind op aanklagte van […]
# Chief Zwelivelile Mandela says the Global Sumud Flotilla faces the threat of violent escalation from Israel within the next 48 hours. Speaking at an emergency media briefing, Mandela warned that credible intelligence suggests attempts may be made to sink boats or harm participants as the flotilla sails to break the blockade on Gaza. He […]
# Former president Nicolas Sarkozy is set to become France’s first postwar leader to go to prison after a court jailed him for five years over a scheme for the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his victorious 2007 presidential run. The court convicted him on charges of criminal conspiracy, although it acquitted him […]
# Die topverkoper voertuigvervaardiger, Toyota het sy nuwe hoëtegnologie dorpie in Japan geopen. Dit is ‘n eksperimentele projek om outonome voertuighantering en ander futuristiese ontwikkelings te toets. Die dorpie word voorgestel as ‘n voorbeeld van die werklike lewe om ‘n magdom uitvindings te toets, van vlieënde taxis tot robot-troeteldiere en hommeltuie wat jou in die […]
# Indië het ‘n 121-miljard-rand bestelling vir 97 plaaslik vervaardigde vegvliegtuie onderteken terwyl hulle lugmag sy Russiese MiG-21 vliegtuie na dekades van gebruik uit diens stel. Die eerste “Tejas” vleigtuie – wat “briljantheid” in Hindi beteken – is in 2016 deur die lugmag in gebruik geneem. Die jongste bestelling is vir die vierde generasie van […]
