# India signed a 121-billion-rand order for 97 domestically designed and built fighter jets as its air force retires its outgoing Russian MiG-21 jets after decades of use. The first Tejas jets, meaning “brilliance” in Hindi, were commissioned into the airforce in 2016, with the latest commission for the fourth-generation version of the fighter. India, […]
# Die Israelse eerste minister Benjamin Netanyahu het op pad na die Verenigde State leiers veroordeel wat ‘n Palestynse staat erken. Hy gaan Withuis-gesprekke voer en ‘n toespraak lewer by die VN se Algemene Vergadering. Sy opmerkings volg drie dae nadat Frankryk ‘n spesiale beraad ten tye van die Algemene Vergadering gelei het, waar talle […]
# A Paris court convicted former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on charges of criminal conspiracy but acquitted him of corruption and accepting illegal campaign financing, in his trial into accusations that late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi helped fund his victorious 2007 presidential run. The trial is the latest in a string of legal troubles for […]
# Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced leaders who had recognised a Palestinian state, as he headed to the United States for White House talks and an address to the UN General Assembly. His remarks came three days after France led a special summit on the sidelines of the General Assembly, which saw a slew […]
# Die Franse vloot het beslag gelê op byna 10 ton kokaïen ter waarde van meer as 10-miljard-rand op ‘n vissersboot langs die kus van Wes-Afrika. Die beslaglegging deur twee vlootskepe, het gevolg ná ‘n wenk deur anti-dwelm- en maritieme intelligensie-owerhede en die Britse polisie. Die vlootsending is reeds sedert 1990 in die Golf van […]
# Spanje en Italië het vlootskepe ontplooi om die globale Sumud-flottielje te begelei na hommeltuigaanvalle op hulpvaartuie op pad na Gaza. Aktiviste sê hommeltuie het plofstof afgegooi en kommunikasieversteuring veroorsaak in ‘n poging om Israel se seeblokkade te verbreek. Mandla Mandela, die kleinseun van Nelson Mandela, is onder die teenwoordiges. Die Spaanse eerste minister, Pedro […]
# Die One Club for Creativity het die name van 13 jong skeppendes bekend gemaak vir die Next Creative Leaders 2025, ‘n gratis wêreldwye kompetisie wat erkenning gee aan opkomende skeppende vroue en nie-binêres in die advertensiebedryf. Vier Suid-Afrikaners is op die kortlys. Die ander is van Kenia, Libanon, Jordanië en die Verenigde Arabiese Emirate. […]
# The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine worth more than 10-billion-rand from a fishing vessel off the coast of west Africa. The seizure by two navy ships followed a tip-off by anti-drug and maritime intelligence authorities and British police. The naval mission has been deployed in the Gulf of Guinea since […]
# Spain and Italy are deploying naval ships to escort the Global Sumud Flotilla after drone attacks on aid vessels bound for Gaza. Activists say drones dropped flashbang explosives and jammed communications during the mission to break Israel’s naval blockade. Among participants is South Africa’s Mandla Mandela, the grandson of Nelson Mandela. Spanish Prime Minister […]
