# French protesters are staging a day of nationwide disruption over President Emmanuel Macron’s budget policies, with mass protests expected, transport chaos and clashes between police and demonstrators. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, Macron’s seventh head of government, took office last week, vowing a break from the past against the background of an ongoing political crisis. […]
# US President Donald Trump said he would designate “Antifa”, a shorthand term for “anti-fascist” used to describe far-left groups, as “a major terrorist organisation,” a move he threatened in his first term. For years Trump has blamed Antifa for various wrongs, from violence against police to being behind the US Capitol riot on 6 […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Kommunistiese Party verwelkom die bevindings van die Verenigde Nasies se Onafhanklike Internasionale Kommissie van Ondersoek dat Israel volksmoord teen Palestyne in Gaza pleeg. Die kommissie het verklaar vier uit die vyf dade van volksmoord, soos bepaal in internasionale reg, is deur Israel in Gaza uitgevoer sedert die begin van die oorlog met […]
# The South African Communist Party has welcomed the findings by the United Nations’ Independent International Commission of Inquiry, that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The commission stated that four of the five genocidal acts, defined under international law, have been carried out by Israel in Gaza since the start of the […]
# Disney se ABC-kanaal het die gewilde laatnagprogram, Jimmy Kimmel Live, onbepaald onttrek. Dit kom te midde van omstredenheid oor Kimmel se onlangse opmerkings oor die dood van Charlie Kirk, wat tydens ʼn geleentheid by Utah Valley University doodgeskiet is. Tyler Robinson word aangekla van die aktivis se moord. Kimmel het Maandagaand in sy monoloog […]
# Disney’s ABC has pulled the popular late-night show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, off its schedule indefinitely. This is amid a controversy over Kimmel’s recent comments about the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead during an event at Utah Valley University. Tyler Robinson has been charged with the activist’s murder. In his […]
# Altesaam 303 leerders van 35 streke regoor Suid-Afrika asook 16 internasionale deelnemers sal in Oktober aan die Eskom Ekspo vir Jong Wetenskaplikes se Internasionale Wetenskapsfees in Gauteng deelneem. Deelnemers van Suid-Afrika, Lesotho, Namibië, Zimbabwe, Mexiko, Ierland, Indië en Rusland sal hul projekte uitstal. Parthy Chetty van Eskom sê pryse sluit in beurse van altesaam […]
# Die DA sê hy ondersteun die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Verdediging en Militêre Veterane se voorsitter, Dakota Legoete, se kommer oor die welstand van Suid-Afrikaanse weermaglede. Dit volg nadat 813-miljoen-rand wat as toelaes vir soldate bedoel was, elders aangewend is. Nicholas Gotsell van die DA sê hulle verwelkom Legoete se oproep vir dringende optrede nadat […]
# Die fliekmaker Spike Lee, Warner Brothers se uitvoerende hoof, Pamela Abdy, die klankbaan-komponis Nicholas Britell en die draaiboekskrywer Will Tracy is van die mense wat vereer word op vanjaar se Montclair-rolprentfees in Amerika. Lee word vereer vir sy bydrae as rolprentmaker terwyl Adby die Visioenêre Toekenning vir haar loopbaan ontvang deur flieks soos Sinners […]
