# Die Europese Unie het Europese ondernemings in kritieke sektore aangesê om die gebruik van kunsmatige intelligensie te verhoog en het hul ook aangespoor om hul afhanklikheid van buitelandse KI-verskaffers te verminder. Die EU is wel agter teenoor Amerika en China, maar Brussel glo hy kan steeds meeding in die globale KI-wedloop. Die Europese Kommissie […]
# Russia says the momentum towards reaching a peace deal in Ukraine, following Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s presidential summit in Alaska, had largely gone. The two leaders met in August, but failed to reach any kind of agreement on ending the three-and-a-half year war. Diplomatic efforts to end the fighting have since floundered, with […]
# Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, has illustrated the ill treatment by the Israeli soldiers after their boats were intercepted by the Israeli Navy. Mandla says they were denied food, handcuffed, paraded, and harshly treated upon arrival in Ashdod. He added that activist Greta Thunberg, aged 22, was also harassed by Israeli authorities. He described […]
# The World Trade Organisation has sharply cut its 2026 global merchandise trade growth forecast to 0.5-percent, down from 1.8-percent. The organisation cites delayed effects of US president Donald Trump’s tariffs. WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warned of a bleak outlook but said the global trading system remains resilient. For 2025, the WTO raised its forecast […]
# The International Committee of the Red Cross reports that more than 80-percent of healthcare facilities have exhausted their supplies of essential medicines in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where violence continues unabated. A US-brokered peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda in June is proving slow to take effect on the ground. For 30 […]
# The European Union has told European businesses in critical sectors to ramp up their uptake of artificial intelligence and pushed for the bloc to cut its dependence on foreign AI providers. Although the EU is falling behind the United States and China, Brussels believes the bloc can still compete in the global AI race. […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa het ‘n spesiale amptelike begrafnis kategorie twee toegestaan aan die ontslape Suid-Afrikaanse ambassadeur in Frankryk, Nathi Mthethwa. ‘n Gedenkdiens word tans in Parys gehou ná Mthethwa se dood verlede week nadat hy volgens berigte van die 22ste verdieping van die Hyatt Regency Hotel in Parys geval het. Sy liggaam sal na […]
# Die Wêreldhandelsorganisasie het sy voorspelling vir die groei van globale handel in goedere vir 2026 skerp verlaag tot 0,5-persent, teenoor die vorige 1,8-persent. Die organisasie blameer die nagevolge van Amerikaanse president Donald Trump se tariewe. Die hoof van die organisasie, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, waarsku vooruitsigte is somber, maar sê die globale handelstelsel bly veerkragtig. Die […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has granted the late South African ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, a special official funeral category two. A memorial service is underway in Paris following Mthethwa’s death last week after reportedly falling from the 22nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. His body is expected to leave France tomorrow and arrive […]
