# Namibia’s Communications Regulatory Authority has dismissed an appeal by trillionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink against the rejection of its license applications. The application to provide fixed satellite services was rejected in March for failing to comply with local ownership rules. Namibian law bars telecommunications licensees from being controlled by foreign individuals or companies, limiting ownership to 49-percent, […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile has reaffirmed the strong political trust and historic solidarity that continues to underpin South Africa-China relations, within the framework of all-round strategic cooperation. He had a bilateral meeting with China’s vice president Han Zheng today as part of his working visit to the country. Mashatile says South Africa is committed […]
# Die voormalige voorsitter van die Amerikaanse Federale Reserwe, Alan Greenspan, is op 100-jarige leeftyd dood. Sy vrou van 29 jaar, Andrea Mitchell, sê hy het tuis gesterf weens komplikasies van Parkinson-siekte. Greenspan het een van die invloedrykste ekonomiese beleidmakers van sy tyd geword nadat president Ronald Reagan hom in 1987 aangestel het. Hy het […]
# The longtime chairperson of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, has died at the age of 100. His wife of 29 years, Andrea Mitchell, says he died at their home from complications of Parkinson’s Disease. Greenspan became one of the most influential economic policymakers of his era after being appointed chairperson by president Ronald […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies se Kinderfonds sê kinders verteenwoordig 15-persent van die bevestigde gevalle en meer as 25-persent van die sterftes sedert Ebola in April in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo uitgebreek het. Kinders het ‘n byna twee keer groter kans om te sterf as volwassenes. Die DRK het nou meer as eenduisend Ebola-gevalle en […]
# The United Nations Children’s Fund says children, making up 15-percent of confirmed cases and over 25-percent of deaths since the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in April, are almost twice as likely to die as adults. The DRC has surpassed one-thousand Ebola cases and 254 confirmed deaths. UNICEF chief, Catherine Russell, […]
# Die Iranse ministerie van Buitelandse Sake het bewerings deur die Amerikaanse visepresident JD Vance weerlê, dat hulle na die naweek se onderhandelinge in Switserland, ingestem het om kernmonitors in die land toe te laat. Teheran het in Julie verlede jaar samewerking met die Internasionale Atoomenergie-agentskap opgeskort, nadat Washington aanvalle op die land se kernverrykingsfasiliteite […]
# Iran’s Foreign Ministry has refuted US vice president JD Vance’s claims that it has agreed to allow nuclear monitors into the country, following negotiations in Switzerland over the weekend. Tehran suspended cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency in July last year, after Washington had launched strikes on the country’s nuclear enrichment facilities. The […]
# Die Amerikaanse Tesourie het die verbod op die verkoop van Iranse olie vir 60 dae opgehef. Dis een van die voorwaardes in die memorandum van verstandhouding tussen Washington en Teheran. Dit gee tot 21 Augustus toestemming vir die vervaardiging, verkope en lewering van Iranse ruolie en petrochemiese produkte. Iranse olie mag nou na Amerika […]
