# About 400 schools and other educational institutions in France are expected to remain closed today as student protests over teacher shortages and deteriorating school buildings turn violent in some areas. The demonstrations began in the Paris region last month before spreading nationwide. Dozens of people have been injured and police have made hundreds of […]
# Cargo is piling up at Pakistan’s main port in Karachi as truckers refuse to drive north, fearing their vehicles and containers will be seized for barricades around Islamabad. Police requisitioned more than two-thousand vehicles in September, many still carrying cargo. The disruption comes ahead of a march planned for 4 October by supporters of […]
# US president Donald Trump says he may ask European countries to release some of their diesel reserves amid a global shortage. He has already threatened a ban on exports of US diesel. America is a vital supplier of diesel to the world, exporting between 1.2 and 1.5 million barrels per day. According to reports, […]
# 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 […]
