# A US delegation led by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will be meeting with Chinese officials in London today, in a new round of talks aimed at resolving the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. A 90-day trade agreement earlier this month saw the US temporarily lowering its overall tariffs on Chinese goods […]
# Minstens vier mense is Sondag in Rafah dood op pad na ʼn voedselverspreidingsentrum wat deur die Gaza Humanitêre Stigting beheer word. Die Israelse weermag sê soldate het waarskuwingskote afgevuur nadat hulle ʼn groep wat hulle genader het en as ʼn bedreiging beskou is, mondelings gewaarsku het. Die Gaza Humanitêre Stigting se bedrywighede in die […]
# The Israeli military boarded the Gaza-bound Madleen of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which is carrying humanitarian aid and human rights defenders, including climate activist Greta Thunberg. The vessel left Sicily on Friday. Israel’s foreign ministry says the yacht was told to change course due to its approach toward a restricted area. It says a blockade is necessary […]
# Die goewerneur van Kalifornië, Gavin Newsom, sê die ontplooiing van tweeduisend lede van die National Guard in Los Angeles oor die naweek is doelbewus opruiend. Hy waarsku dat dit die spanning net sal laat toeneem. President Donald Trump het die soldate in Los Angeles ontplooi te midde van betogings teen klopjagte deur Immigration Customs […]
# At least four people were killed by Israeli fire on their way to a food distribution centre in Rafah on Sunday, which is run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The Israel Defence Force says troops fired warning shots after issuing a verbal challenge at a group that was moving towards them and was deemed […]
# California Governor Gavin Newsom has called the deployment of two-thousand National Guardsmen to Los Angeles over the weekend purposefully inflammatory, warning that it would only escalate tensions. President Donald Trump deployed the soldiers to LA amid unrest over Immigration Customs Enforcement raids in the county. Newsom criticised the immigration raids, accusing the Trump administration […]
# Die minister van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing, Dion George, woon vandag die derde VN-Oseanekonferensie in Nice, Frankryk, by. Die konferensie wil wêreldwye optrede versnel om oseane te bewaar en volhoubaar te gebruik Dit ondersteun Volhoubare Ontwikkelingsdoelwit 14: ‘Lewe Onder Water’. Die departement se woordvoerder, Thobile Zulu-Molobi, sê die tema van die konferensie is […]
# Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment minister Dion George is today attending the third United Nations Oceans Conference in Nice, France. The conference seeks to accelerate global action to conserve and sustainably use the ocean, in support of Sustainable Development Goal 14: ‘Life Below Water’. The department’s spokesperson, Thobile Zulu-Molobi says this year’s conference theme […]
# Navorsers sê ‘n nuwe bloedtoets vir Alzheimer se siekte is 95-persent akkuraat om pasiënte te identifiseer met kognitiewe verswakking wat verband hou met die toestand. Die Amerikaanse studie het 509 pasiënte in ‘n geheuekliniek vir buitepasiënte in Florida betrek. Die toets, wat deur die Amerikaanse reguleerder goedgekeur is, was ook 82-persent onderskeidend akkuraat wat […]
