# The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, warns that women and girls continue to suffer disproportionate harm in conflicts, while often being excluded from decisions affecting their security. In 2024, an estimated 676 million women and girls lived within 50 kilometres of active conflict, the highest figure recorded since the end […]
# Israel se eerste minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sê voorlopige ondersoeke dui aan die man wat sy medevlieënier op ʼn Flydubai-vlug aangeval het, is radikaal beïnvloed deur Islamisme. Hy het Woensdag probeer om die vliegtuig te laat neerstort onderweg van Dubai na Israel. Die gewonde kaptein kon die stuurkajuit se deur oopmaak, waarop passasiers en reserwe-personeel […]
# Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says preliminary investigations suggest the man who stabbed his fellow pilot on a Flydubai plane had undergone Islamist radical indoctrination. The attacker attempted to crash the Israel-bound flight from Dubai on Wednesday. The wounded captain managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and reserve crew to subdue the attacker […]
# Amnestie Internasionaal in Amerika sê Christa Pike se mislukte teregstelling bewys weereens dat die doodstraf wreed, onmenslik en vernederend is. Sy is in 1995 ter dood veroordeel weens moord, en het Woensdagaand twee dodelike inspuitings oorleef. Pike sou die eerste vrou in meer as 200-jaar wees wat in Tennessee tereggestel word. Woordvoerder Justin Mazzola […]
# Amnesty International USA says Tennessee’s attempted, but botched, execution of Christa Pike is the latest reminder that the death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Pike, sentenced to death for a 1995 murder, survived two lethal injections on Wednesday evening. She would have been the first woman to be executed in […]
# Suid-Korea se president, Lee Jae Myung, het Kiëf beskuldig dat hy ʼn vertroulikheidsooreenkoms verbreek het deur die oorhandiging van twee Noord-Koreaanse krygsgevangenes bekend te maak. Oekraïne se president, Volodymyr Zelensky, het verlede week by die Verenigde Nasies se Algemene Vergadering aangekondig dat sy regering twee Noord-Koreaanse soldate aan Seoel oorhandig het. Die twee soldate was […]
# South Korea’s president Lee Jae Myung has accused Ukraine of breaching a confidentiality agreement by publicly disclosing the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky announced at the United Nations General Assembly last week that his government had transferred two captured North Korean soldiers to Seoul. The two soldiers were […]
# President Donald Trump van Amerika erken dat die sewe maande lange oorlog teen Iran die Republikeinse Party se kanse in die November-middeltermyn-verkiesing kan belemmer. Hy het voorheen gewaarsku Teheran wil nie voor die verkiesing ʼn ooreenkoms bereik nie. Iran het onlangs ʼn skietstilstand van sewe dae voorgestel, en dat die Straat van Hormoes in […]
# Die Britse teenterrorisme-polisie het ʼn Brits-Iranse burger in Westminster, Londen, in hegtenis geneem in verband met die voorval by RAF Fairford. Die 26-jarige man is aangekeer weens vermeende voorbereiding van “terrorisme-dade”. Die polisie het intussen ʼn tweede man, ʼn 26-jarige Britse burger, ondervra en twee eiendomme deursoek. Die polisie het vyf mans wat Sondag […]
