# The Science Based Targets Initiative has launched a net-zero standard for banks, asset managers, and insurance companies. This requires them to end financing for firms that are expanding coal projects immediately, and for those expanding oil and gas projects by 2030. Nearly 135 financial institutions on six continents have signed up to the new […]
# Abu Dhabi is die negende agtereenvolgende jaar amptelik aangewys as die veiligste stad ter wêreld. Dit is volgens 2025 se verslag van die globale statistiekwebwerf Numbeo. Abu Dhabi het ‘n veiligheidspunt van 85,2 uit 100 behaal. Dit word bepaal deur die siening van misdaadvlakke, ‘n veiligheidsgevoel tydens uitstappies in die nag asook kommer oor […]
# President Emmanuel Macron sê Frankryk sal Palestina in September as ʼn staat erken en die eerste lid van die Verenigde Nasies se Veiligheidsraad en G7-nasies word wat dit doen. Die Franse president sê hy hoop die besluit sal vrede in die Midde-Ooste bring. Macron voeg by die hoofsaak is om die oorlog in Gaza […]
# Die vakverbond Cosatu sê hy het sy voorlegging ter ondersteuning van die hernuwing van die Wet op Groei en Geleenthede in Afrika aan die Amerikaanse handelsverteenwoordiger oorhandig. Die verhouding tussen Suid-Afrika en Amerika is op ʼn laagtepunt en dit wil voorkom of Suid-Afrika se insluiting by AGOA nie in September hernu gaan word nie. […]
# Abu Dhabi has been officially named the safest city in the world for the ninth consecutive year. This is according to the 2025 report by the global statistics website Numbeo. Abu Dhabi achieved a Safety Index score of 85.2 out of 100. The total index score is determined by general perception of crime levels, […]
# Amerika se adjunk-prokureur-generaal, Todd Blanche, het gister in Tallahassee, Florida, met wyle Jeffrey Epstein se medepligtige, Ghislaine Maxwell, vergader waar sy ʼn vonnis van 20 jaar uitdien vir sekshandel. Die vergadering volg ná openbare kritiek oor president Donald Trump se administrasie se vermeende gebrek aan deursigtigheid in verband met dokumente oor die Epstein-saak. Maxwell […]
# President Emmanuel Macron says France will recognise Palestine as a state in September, becoming the first member of the United Nations Security Council and the G7 nations to do so. The French president says he hopes this decision will bring peace to the Middle East. Macron added that the urgent need today is for […]
# University of Pretoria third-year LLB student, Kiara Ramluckun, has been awarded the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary. This is for an all-expenses-paid educational tour of England and Scotland later this year. The travel bursary aims to broaden the horizons of young South Africans by exposing them to the UK and its universities, where they participate […]
# The Congress of South African Trade Unions says it has presented its submission in support of the African Growth and Opportunities Act’s renewal to the United States’ Trade Representative. With relations between the South African and US governments at a low point, it seems likely that South Africa’s inclusion in the AGOA will not […]
