# The World Bank says the Iran war is projected to slow global economic growth to its weakest pace since the Covid-19 pandemic, and renewed hostilities could cause it to slump further. Global economic growth is forecast at 2.5-percent this year, down from 2.9-percent in 2025. The bank warns that growth could fall to just […]
# UK Armed Forces minister, Al Carns, has resigned hours after the resignation of Defence Secretary John Healey over a dispute about military funding. He is the seventh minister in prime minister Keir Starmer’s government to step down in the past month. In his resignation letter, Carns argued that the defence investment plan is not built […]
# Die gewese president van Suid-Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, is tot dertig jaar tronkstraf gevonnis oor aanklagte dat hy opdrag gegee het om hommeltuie na Noord-Korea in te stuur. Dit was ‘n poging om spanning te verhoog en om te help om sy mislukte afkondiging van krygswet in 2024 te verdedig. Die Hooggeregshof in Seoel […]
# South Korea’s former-president Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to 30 years in prison over charges of ordering drone infiltrations into North Korea. This was in a bid to escalate tensions and to help justify his failed 2024 martial law declaration. The Seoul Central District Court found Yoon, together with his former Defence minister Kim […]
# Die minister van Wetenskap, Tegnologie en Innovering, Blade Nzimande, sê Suid-Afrika wil bande met China versterk wat wetenskap, tegnologie en innovering betref. Die minister het gister ʼn bilaterale hoëvlak-vergadering met die Chinese ambassadeur in Suid-Afrika, Wu Peng, gehou. Dis in aanloop tot volgende week se Wêreld KI-konferensie en hoëvlakvergadering oor wêreldwye KI-bestuur in Sjanghai, […]
# Iran sê hy het nog nie ʼn finale besluit geneem oor enige ooreenkoms nie en beklemtoon berigte van ʼn afgehandelde ooreenkoms met Amerika is “blote bespiegeling”. President Donald Trump het verklaar die laaste kwessies van ʼn ooreenkoms om die oorlog te beëindig, is goedgekeur. ʼn Woordvoerder van Iran se ministerie van Buitelandse Sake, Esmail […]
# Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, says South Africa is committed to strengthening science, technology, and innovation cooperation with China. The minister held a high-level bilateral engagement with the Chinese Ambassador to South Africa, Wu Peng, yesterday. This is ahead of the World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank sê die land se finansiële stelsel bly oor die algemeen veerkragtig, ten spyte van meer uitdagende finansiële toestande en monetêre beleid weens die oorlog in die Midde-Ooste. Die Reserwebank se jongste halfjaarlikse verslag oor finansiële stabiliteit sê die land is meer blootgestel aan wisselvallige kapitaalvloei omdat buitelandse beleggers plaaslike bates verkoop […]
# Iran says it has not yet made a final decision on any deal, emphasising that reports of a finalised agreement with the US were “merely speculation”. US president Donald Trump has stated that the final points of a deal to end the war had been approved. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei says the […]
