# Warner Brothers’ kid-friendly movie, A Minecraft Movie, topped the global box office in its opening weekend. The movie, which boasts a star-studded cast including Jason Momoa, Jack Black and Jennifer Coolidge, is based on the Mojang Studios video game of the same name. It centres around four misfits who are suddenly pulled through a […]
# Climate change is reshaping tourism and threatening destinations like the Maldives and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. According to the United Nations, rising sea levels could submerge much of the Maldives by 2100, while warming oceans are bleaching coral reefs. These changes are expected to disrupt natural attractions and local economies as the tourism infrastructure […]
# Die Franse president Emmanuel Macron veroordeel Rusland se onlangse missielaanvalle in Oekraïne. Twintig mense, insluitend nege kinders, is Vrydag in ʼn Russiese ballistiese-missielaanval in die sentrale Oekraïnse stad, Kryvyi Rih, dood. Macron sê Oekraïne het ʼn Amerikaans-gesteunde voorstel vir ʼn volledige en onvoorwaardelike skietstilstand van 30 dae aanvaar, maar Rusland verskerp sy militêre veldtog […]
# President Donald Trump van Amerika se omvattende tariewe stuur steeds skokgolwe deur die wêreld se finansiële markte. Markte in Asië het vanoggend getuimel met Japan se Nikkei wat kort na opening met meer as agt-persent gedaal het, en Suid-Korea se Kospi met meer as 4,8-persent. Australië se ASX 200-indeks het vanoggend met sowat 6,3-persent […]
# French president Emmanuel Macron has condemned Russia’s recent missile strikes in Ukraine. This comes after a Russian ballistic missile killed 20 people, including nine children, in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih last Friday. Macron says Ukraine has accepted a US-backed proposal for a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire, while Russia is intensifying […]
# Meer as 50 lande het na die Withuis uitgereik om te onderhandel nadat president Donald Trump wêreldwyd handelstariewe ingestel het. Dit is volgens die direkteur van Amerika se Nasionale Ekonomiese Raad, Kevin Hassett. Trump se algemene tien-persent-belasting op invoerprodukte is nou van krag en hierdie week volg nog hoër tariewe vir talle lande, insluitend […]
# US president Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have continued to send shockwaves around the world’s financial markets. Asian markets have plunged this morning, with Japan’s benchmark Nikkei falling by more than eight-percent shortly after opening, while South Korea’s Kospi tumbled more than 4.8-percent. Australia’s benchmark ASX 200 index fell as much 6.3-percent in morning trade. […]
# More than 50 countries have reached out to the White House to begin trade negotiations after president Donald Trump’s global sweeping tariffs. This is according to US’s National Economic Council director, Kevin Hassett. Trump’s blanket ten-percent tax on imports is now in effect, with much steeper tariffs for many countries, including South Africa, coming […]
# Wêreldgesondheidsdag word vandag herdenk en kyk na moeder- en pasgebore gesondheid onder die tema “Gesonde begin, hoopvolle toekoms”. Volgens die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie sterf byna 300-duisend vroue jaarliks as gevolg van swangerskapverwante probleme, met meer as twee-miljoen sterftes onder pasgeborenes. Die veldtog vra hernude wêreldwye belegging om lewens te red. Die organisasie beklemtoon ondersteuning vir vroedvroue, […]
