# South African airline Airlink and Qatar Airways are expanding their codeshare partnership from 31 August, with Airlink adding its 4Z code to Qatar-operated flights. The agreement will allow Airlink to market Doha as its first long-haul destination, with codeshared flights from Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. The partnership will later extend to more destinations […]
# Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, has dismissed the idea that settlements were an obstacle to peace. The UN Security Council has sounded the alarm over rising settler violence, demolitions and displacement of Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank. All Israeli settlements there have no legal validity and constitute a violation of […]
# Minstens vier mense is dood nadat rekord-reënval in Japan se Chiba-streek ongekende oorstromings veroorsaak het. Vyf mense is beseer en een word vermis terwyl meer as 400-duisend mense onmiddellik moes ontruim. Meer as 45-duisend wonings is sonder elektrisiteit. Japan se meteorologiese agentskap het die hoogste vlak vyf-waarskuwing uitgereik vir swaar reën en modderstortings. Chiba […]
# At least four people have died after record-breaking torrential rain triggered massive floods in Japan’s Chiba region. Five people have been injured, and one is missing, while more than 400-thousand people have been urged to evacuate. More than 45-thousand homes have lost power, as the Japan Meteorological Agency has issued the highest level five […]
# Die kantoor van die Verenigde Nasies se Hoëkommissaris vir Menseregte het Israel se militêre operasies in die besette Wesoewer veroordeel en gesê die aanvalle op Palestyne hier is ‘n nuwe laagtepunt. Israelse soldate het sowat 20 Palestynse gesinne na bewering om veiligheidsredes uit Qusra verwyder. Ajith Sunghay van die VN sê Palestyne wat in […]
# The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the Israeli military’s operations in the occupied West Bank, saying the settler siege of Palestinians marks a new low. About 20 Palestinian families from Qusra had been evacuated by Israel Defence Forces soldiers allegedly for security purposes. The UN’s Ajith Sunghay […]
# Amerika se minister van Finansies, Scott Bessent, sê hulle sal voortgaan om Iran ekonomies te isoleer en sy hawens te blokkeer. Verlede week het Amerika se Tesourie-departement se kantoor vir beheer oor buitelandse bates, sanksies ingestel op individue, beurse en maatskappye in verskeie lande wat beskuldig word dat hulle Iran se Shahr Bank help […]
# Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie se direkteur-generaal, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, het kommer uitgespreek dat veranderinge aan die Verenigde State se immuniseringsbeleid nie ooreenstem met die beste beskikbare wetenskap nie. President Donald Trump het Maandag ʼn uitvoerende bevel onderteken wat kinders se roetine-inentings van 18 tot 11 verminder. Volgens die bevel word die gekombineerde inenting vir masels, Duitse […]
# US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says they will continue to economically isolate Iran and blockade its ports. Last week, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on individuals, exchange houses and companies across several countries that it accused of helping Iran’s Shahr Bank move hundreds of millions of dollars clandestinely. […]
