# Today marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11, when al-Qaeda’s suicide pilots flew two hijacked planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York on 11 September 2001. Two-thousand-977 victims died that day. Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed by the US military in Pakistan in 2011. The alleged mastermind behind […]
# Die Amerikaanse visepresident, JD Vance, sê die na-verkiesingsbetalings wat president Donald Trump aan alle volwasse Amerikaanse burgers belowe het, sal befonds word deur die handelstariewe. Trump het belowe om elke volwasse burger 80-duisend-rand te betaal as sy Republikeinse Party die Huis en Senaat in November se middeltermynverkiesing behou. Volgens berigte sal dit meer as […]
# The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has observed activity at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, an underground tunnel complex near Tehran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility. The heavily fortified site is believed to be an under-construction nuclear facility. According to reports, Iran is using stockpiled parts to assemble both solid- and liquid-fuelled missiles. Agency director general […]
# US vice president JD Vance has suggested that the post-election payments president Donald Trump has promised American adult citizens would come from revenues raised by the trade tariffs. Trump has vowed to pay every adult citizen 80-thousand-rand if his Republican Party retains the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections. Reports estimate this will cost […]
# Die Departement van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking sê ses Suid-Afrikaners word steeds vermis na die verwoestende kitsvloede in Nepal en Tibet. DNS-profiele van hul familielede is na die Nepalese polisie en Interpol gestuur om te help om slagoffers te identifiseer, met Suid-Afrikaanse diplomatieke missies in Indië en China wat ook met die soektog help. […]
# Navorsers sê bewyse uit Indonesië dui daarop dat mense moontlik psigoaktiewe plante 25-duisend jaar gelede gebruik het. Die studie fokus op antieke plantoorskotte wat in ‘n grot op die eiland Sulawesi ontdek is, onder meer tekens van natuurlike stowwe wat die brein kan affekteer. Wetenskaplikes sê die bevindings skuif die vroegste bekende bewyse van […]
# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation says six South Africans remain missing after devastating flash floods in Nepal and Tibet. DNA profiles from their relatives have been sent to Nepalese police and Interpol to help identify victims, while South African diplomatic missions in India and China are assisting with the search. The six […]
# Minstens 20 mense is dood in ‘n brand wat op ‘n vragskip in die oostelike Chinese hawestad Qingdao uitgebreek het. Die brand, wat in die middel van die oggend ontstaan het, is ‘n paar uur later onder beheer gebring. Staatsmedia sê die skip het vrag vervoer toe die brand begin het, en verskeie mense […]
# Suid-Afrika en Saoedi-Arabië wil toerismebande verder versterk, insluitend met meer regstreekse vlugte tussen die twee lande. Die minister van Toerisme, Patricia de Lille, sê gesprekke sluit vlugte na Johannesburg en pelgrimstog-dienste na Kaapstad in. Sy sê Saoedi-Arabië is een van 30 lande wat Suid-Afrika se elektroniese reismagtigingstelsel dek en reisigers uit dié land toelaat […]
