# Oekraïne het vir die eerste keer bevestig dat sy troepe die naburige Russiese streek Belgorod binnegedring het. Zelenskyy sê Oekraïnese troepe is aktief in die grensgebiede. Hy het dit as regverdig beskryf en gesê die oorlog moet terugkeer na waar dit vandaan kom. Inwoners van Zelenskyy se tuisdorp het Maandag begrafnisse gehou vir sommige […]
# King Charles watched a colourful flypast with Italy’s president today and laid a wreath for fallen soldiers on the first full day of his state visit with Queen Camilla, just days after his latest health scare. The four-day trip comes less than a fortnight after the 76-yesr old king was briefly admitted to hospital […]
# An economist whose work was cited by US president Donald Trump’s administration to justify sweeping tariffs has said officials misinterpreted the research, and the levies should have been as little as a quarter of what the White House announced. Brent Neiman, who was a US Treasury official under previous president Joe Biden, co-authored a […]
China has slammed US vice president JD Vance for referring to the Chinese people as “peasants” in an interview that has drawn widespread reaction on China’s internet, and comparisons with Vance’s own self-proclaimed “hillbilly” background. Speaking to Fox News, Vance defended President Donald Trump’s market-hammering tariffs. He said they borrow money from Chinese peasants to […]
# Die miljardêr Elon Musk het glo vir Donald Trump gevra om sy tariewe om te keer. Washington Post verwys na twee bronne wat sê dis die grootste hoëprofiel-onenigheid tussen die uitvoerende hoof van Tesla en die Amerikaanse president. Dit volg op Trump se onthulling van ‘n basislyn-tarief van tien-persent op alle invoere en hoër […]
# Ukraine has confirmed for the first time that its troops have entered the neighbouring Russian region of Belgorod. Zelenskyy said Ukrainian troops are carrying out active operations in the border areas. He called it just, and said the war must return to where it came from. On Monday, Zelenskyy’s hometown held funerals for some […]
# Billionaire Elon Musk has reportedly asked Donald Trump to reverse his tariffs. Citing two sources, the Washington Post says the exchange marks the highest profile disagreement between the Tesla CEO and US president. Musk’s pleas followed Trump’s unveiling of a 10-percent baseline tariff on all imports to the US and higher duties on dozens […]
# Die Afrika-petroleumprodusente-organisasie het beklemtoon hoe noodsaaklik dit is vir Afrika om sy aansienlike olie- en gasbronne voorop te stel vir ontwikkeling van die kontinent. Die organisasie se sekretaris-generaal, Omar Farouk Ibrahim, sê ongeveer 75-persent van die olie in Afrika en 40-persent van sy gas word uitgevoer, terwyl ‘n aansienlike deel van die bevolking nie […]
# Cosatu se president, Zingiswa Losi, het die G20-werkgroep vir indiensneming aangemoedig om voorrang te gee aan ‘n regverdige oorgang wat werksgeleenthede beskerm om volhoubare lewensbestaan te verseker. Losi het in Durban gevra Taakspan Een moet met nywerheid-strategieë fokus op werkers en gemeenskappe. Sy beklemtoon ook die noodsaaklikheid van die vermindering van ongelykheid in die […]