# Emergency rescue workers are racing to find survivors after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 240 people. Almost two-thousand-600 had been injured, and nearly 200 people remain missing. Further tremors were felt in Cali yesterday, one of the worst-affected cities, with more than 70 occurring since Monday. Emergency […]
# The National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure says maximum available resources have been deployed to ensure the safety of the 12 Heads of State and Government expected to attend the 46th Ordinary SADC Summit in Durban on 16 and 17 August. Extensive security preparations are already in place at the Durban International Convention Centre, […]
# Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie sê hy verskerp sy reaksie op die Ebola-uitbreking in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo. Vier-duisend-381 bevestigde gevalle is aangemeld en twee-duisend-en-11 mense is aan die virus dood. Die middelpunt van hierdie uitbreking van die Bundibugyo-spesie van Ebola is in die ooste van die DRK waar onsekerheid pogings om dit te beheer, belemmer. […]
# The South African government is seeking reimbursements from the governments of Malawi, Nigeria and Ethiopia for costs incurred in repatriating their nationals. The Border Management Authority has revealed that 89-thousand-936 people had been repatriated through South Africa’s ports of entry by August 7th. The Department of Home Affairs director-general, Tommy Makhode, says the mass […]
# ‘n Moontlike Iranse bedreiging het president Donald Trump verlede maand gedwing om ná die NAVO-beraad in die geheim op Turkye se Ankara-lughawe van Air Force One via ‘n spysenieringshouer na ‘n militêre straler te verskuif. Volgens berigte het die VSA van ‘n geloofwaardige Iranse dreigement uitgevind om ‘n missiel op die vliegtuig af te […]
# The World Health Organisation says it is strengthening its response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Two-thousand-and-11 people have died with four-thousand-381 confirmed cases of the virus. The epicentre of this outbreak of the Bundibugyo species of Ebola is in the east of the DRC, where insecurity has hampered control […]
# A possible Iranian threat forced US president Donald Trump to be secretly moved after the NATO summit from Air Force One to a military jet via a catering container at Turkey’s Ankara airport last month. According to reports, the US had detected a credible Iranian threat to fire a missile at the plane. Without […]
# Nvidia het ‘n vennootskap met ses groot finansiële instellings aangegaan om meer as 8,1-duisend-miljard-rand in derdeparty-kapitaal in te samel om KI-infrastruktuur te finansier. Die finansiers, Goldman Sachs, Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield en KKR, het die memorandum van verstandhouding met Nvidia onderteken. Die stap beklemtoon hoe die toenemende vraag na KI-rekenaarkapasiteit institusionele beleggers lok, namate […]
# Drie bemanningslede is dood in ‘n vermoedelike Houthi-aanval op ‘n vragskip in Jemen se Straat van Bab el-Mandeb. Die Jemenitiese kuswag en militêre bronne sê die skip onder ‘n Tanzaniese vlag is getref deur ‘n projektiel aan die kus van al-Mokha. Twee Pakistanse bemanningslede en een Indonesiër is volgens berigte dood. Britse maritieme owerhede […]
