# US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order restricting foreign student visas at Harvard University. Last month, the administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enrol foreign students, but a federal judge temporarily blocked the move. The university’s international students make up about 27-percent of the student body. Trump says Harvard has failed to present […]
# Amerika se president Donald Trump het ʼn bevel onderteken wat van 9 Junie af 12 lande se burgers verbied om na Amerika te reis en voer sekerheidsredes aan. Die lande is Afghanistan, Mianmar, Tsjad, die Republiek die Kongo, Ekwatoriaal-Guinee, Eritrea, Haïti, Iran, Libië, Somalië, Soedan en Jemen. Mense uit sewe lande het gedeeltelike beperkings: […]
# Die Amerikaanse Kongres-begrotingskantoor sê president Donald Trump se Belasting- en Bestedingswetsontwerp sal oor die volgende dekade 42,73-duisend-miljard-rand by die federale regering se skuld voeg. Die wetsontwerp wat aansienlike belastingverligting en groter besteding op verdediging bevat, is verlede maand deur die Huis van Verteenwoordigers goedgekeur en word tans in die Senaat oorweeg. Die Republikeinse Huis […]
# US president Donald Trump has signed a proclamation banning travel to America from nationals of 12 countries, effective from June 9th, citing national security risks. The countries are Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. People from seven countries will have partial restrictions: […]
# Die Britse eerste minister Keir Starmer het die oorlog in Gaza beskryf as ‘n afgryslike en ondraaglike situasie. Ten minste 54-duisend-381 mense is in Gaza dood sedert Hamas se dodelike aanval in Israel op 7 Oktober 2023. Vier-duisend-117 mense is dood sedert Israel sy aanvalle in Gaza op 18 Maart vanjaar hervat het. Starmer […]
# The US non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says president Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill will add 42.73-trillion-rand to the federal government’s debt over the next decade. The bill, which includes significant tax breaks and increased defence spending, was passed by the House of Representatives last month and is now under consideration in the Senate. […]
# British prime minister Keir Starmer has called the war in Gaza an appalling and intolerable situation. At least 54-thousand-381 people have been killed in Gaza since Hamas’ deadly attack in Israel on 7 October 2023. Four-thousand-117 people have been killed since Israel resumed its offensive in Gaza on 18 March this year. Addressing the […]
# Tanzanië het toegang tot die sosiale media platform X geblok oor pornografiese inhoud, twee weke nadat regeringsrekenings gekaap is. X het verlede jaar aangekondig hy sal nie meer “konsensueel vervaardigde en verspreide” volwasse inhoud blokkeer nie. Die minister van Inligting in Tanzanië, Jerry Silaa, het aan ‘n plaaslike TV-stasie gesê hierdie is ‘n weerspreking […]
# Tanzania blocked access to social media platform X over the presence of pornographic content, two weeks after government-linked accounts were hacked. X announced last year that it would no longer block “consensually produced and distributed” adult content. Tanzania’s minister of Information, Jerry Silaa, told a local TV station this contradicts their regulations. He said […]
