# The World Health Organisation has urged Russia to provide complete and transparent information following the death of a laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia in Moscow’s southeast. Unverified reports suggest 28-year-old Darya Shipilova fell ill after breaking a test tube containing the pathogen or following a field trip to a […]
# US Ambassador to South Africa Leo Brent Bozell says there are billions of dollars in potential American investment and thousands of potential jobs, but South African policies continue to stand in the way. His latest remarks mark a fresh escalation in increasingly strained relations between Washington and Pretoria. In an interview with Fox News […]
# UK Counter Terror Police have arrested a 22-year-old British man on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts over the RAF Fairford plot last month. Five men were arrested on 27 September near the base on suspicion of explosives offences and preparing a terrorist act, but were subsequently released on bail. A sixth man, a dual […]
# Die Nobelprys vir Fisika vir 2026 is aan Francis Halzen toegeken na hy Antarktiese ys op ‘n nuwe manier omskep het om die heelal waar te neem. Halzen, ‘n Belgies-Amerikaanse fisikus, het die prys ontvang vir sy deurslaggewende bydraes tot die IceCube-neutrino-observatorium en die ontdekking van hoë-energie-neutrino’s van astrofisiese oorsprong. Neutrino’s word dikwels “spookdeeltjies” […]
# Die regering het die voorlopige bevindinge van die Afrika-kommissie oor Menseregte en die Regte van Volke oor migrasie in Suid-Afrika verwelkom. Die Interministeriële Komitee oor Migrasie sê die kommissie het erkenning gegee aan die land se wetlike raamwerk vir die beskerming van menseregte, insluitend dié van vlugtelinge en asielsoekers. Hy het ook kennis geneem […]
# The government has welcomed the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ preliminary findings on migration in South Africa. The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration says the commission recognised the country’s legal framework for protecting human rights, including refugees and asylum seekers. It also acknowledged challenges such as undocumented migration, unemployment, poverty, crime and hostility […]
# The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for transforming Antarctic ice into a new way of observing the universe. Halzen, a Belgian-American physicist, received the prize for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. Neutrinos are often called “ghost particles” […]
# Kenia se ministerie van Gesondheid het die land se eerste inkomende geval van Ebola bevestig. Die minister van Gesondheid, Aden Duale, sê ‘n Keniaanse burger wat al sewe jaar in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo woon, het Saterdag per pad na Kampala gereis voordat hy na Nairobi gevlieg het en is gisteraand oorlede. Hy […]
# Die bemanning van ‘n vragskip word vermis nadat dit in die Swart See, voor die kus van die NAVO-lidland Bulgarye, ná ‘n hommeltuigaanval gesink het. Die Bulgaarse premier, Rumen Radev, sê twee vragskepe is ongeveer 112 kilometer van die kus af aangeval. Die bemanning van ‘n tweede skip wat graan vervoer het, is gered […]
