# The International Criminal Court has made public four arrest warrants against senior Taliban figures, accusing them of persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan, which amounts to a crime against humanity. The four include Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani. The court says there are reasonable grounds to believe all […]
# Die Amerikaanse president Donald Trump het ‘n uitvoerende bevel onderteken om beperkings op die gebruik van ‘n belastingvrye soort diesel te verslap, ten einde dieselpryse, wat naby rekordvlakke is, te verlaag. Volgens die Withuis sal die bevel “gekleurde” diesel, wat gewoonlik vir veldgebruik bedoel is, tydelik op hoofweë toelaat, en die toepaslike federale aksynsbelasting […]
# Die topverkoper-skrywer en gewese politikus, Jeffrey Archer, is op 86 oorlede. Hy het ʼn suksesvolle loopbaan gehad as romanskrywer en het wêreldwyd meer as 300-miljoen boeke verkoop, insluitend die Clifton Chronicles en Kane and Abel. Archer se politieke loopbaan het in 1967 begin. Hy was vyf jaar lank ʼn Konserwatiewe parlementslid voor hy as […]
# US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order to ease restrictions on the use of a tax-exempt variety of diesel, aimed at bringing down near-record diesel prices. According to the White House, the order will temporarily allow off-road ‘dyed’ diesel for highway use and defer the applicable Federal excise tax. Diesel prices skyrocketed […]
# Die minister van Buitelandse Sake, Marco Rubio, sê Amerika het steeds vertroue in die veiligheid van al sy basisse. Dit volg nadat Amerika al sy B-1-bomwerpers van RAF Fairford in Brittanje na basisse in Amerika verskuif het. Die Britse lugmagbasis was verlede maand die teiken van ʼn vermeende terreur-aanval wat gelei het tot die […]
# Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86. He enjoyed a successful career as a novelist, selling over 300 million copies worldwide, including the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel. Archer’s political career started in 1967, and he was a Conservative member of Parliament for five years before […]
# Die Nobelprys vir Fisiologie of Geneeskunde vir 2026 is aan drie wetenskaplikes toegeken: die Amerikaner Karl Deisseroth en sy Duitse kollegas Peter Hegemann en Georg Nagel. Dit is vir hul ontdekking rakende ligbeheerde ioonkanale en optogenetika. Die drietal se navorsing het gelei tot die ontwikkeling van ‘n ligsensitiewe skakelaar wat gebruik kan word om […]
# Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US still has confidence in the security of all of its bases. This comes after the US removed all its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford in Britain to bases in America. The British air base was the target of a suspected terror attack last month, which resulted in […]
# The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists: American Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel. This is for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. The trio’s research led to the development of a light-sensitive switch that can be used to control […]
