# Die VN se hoof van hulp, Tom Fletcher, sê Vrydag se hongersnoodverslag volgens die Geïntegreerde Voedselsekuriteitsfase-skaal is “onweerlegbaar”. Hy het in ‘n verklaring op sosiale media gesê dit is ‘n hongersnood wat voorkom kon word as hulp toegelaat was. Kos hoop egter op by grense as gevolg van sistematiese obstruksie deur Israel, wat lei […]
# At least 12 people are dead, and four others are missing, after a railway bridge that was under construction in China collapsed. According to the Xinhua News Agency, 16 workers were on the bridge in Qinghai province when a steel cable snapped during a “tensioning operation”. Aerial photos show a large section missing from […]
# Turkey’s first lady, Emine Erdoğan, has written to Melania Trump, urging her to show the same concern for children in Gaza as she has for Ukrainian children affected by war. Trump previously sent Russian President Vladimir Putin her own letter concerning the nearly 20-thousand Ukrainian children that Kyiv’s government says have been abducted during […]
# The UN’s aid chief Tom Fletcher says Friday’s famine report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification is “irrefutable”. He said in a social media statement that it is a famine that could have been prevented if aid had been allowed. However, food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel, resulting […]
# Die Amerikaanse Departement van Justisie het transkripsies en klankopnames van sy Julie-onderhoud met Ghislaine Maxwell vrygestel. Sy dien tronkstraf van 20 jaar uit omdat sy die oorlede finansier Jeffrey Epstein gehelp het om jong meisies te misbruik. Maxwell sê sy het Trump nog nooit in enige onvanpaste omstandighede gesien nie, en oudpresident Bill Clinton […]
# The US Justice Department has released transcripts and audio recordings of its July interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. She is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls. Maxwell says she has never seen Trump in any inappropriate setting, and former US President Bill Clinton was never a client […]
# The World Health Organisation and the World Meteorological Organisation have warned of growing health risks for workers due to extreme heat. In a joint released they note productivity drops by two-to-three-percent for every degree above 20-degrees Celsius, with risks including heatstroke, dehydration and kidney failure. The report states that nearly half the world’s population […]
# Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie en die Wêreldmeteorologiese Organisasie waarsku oor die toenemende gesondheidsrisiko’s vir werkers as gevolg van uiterste hitte. In ‘n gesamentlike verslag het hulle aangedui dat produktiwiteit met twee-tot-drie-persent afneem vir elke graad bo 20-grade Celsius, met gepaardgaande risiko’s soos hittesteek, dehidrasie en nierversaking. Die verslag dui aan dat amper helfte van die wêreld […]
# Russian oil supplies to Hungary and Slovakia could be suspended for at least five days after a Ukrainian strike on a facility in Russia. Ukraine and Russia have stepped up attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure, hitting Ukrainian domestic heating supplies, Russia’s Druzhba pipeline and other facilities, over the past few weeks. This comes […]
