# US chess grandmaster and online commentator Daniel Naroditsky has died aged 29. The popular chess player’s family announced his “unexpected” death in a statement released by his club. Naroditsky gained international attention in 2007 when he won the under-12 boys world youth championship in Antalya, Turkey. In 2010, at the age of 14, he […]
# Die Amerikaanse visepresident, JD Vance, is in Israel om die brose wapenstilstandooreenkoms in Gaza te versterk nadat president Donald Trump Hamas gewaarsku het hulle sal uitgewis word as hulle die wapenstilstand verbreek. Trump se spesiale gesant, Steve Witkoff, en skoonseun Jared Kushner is reeds in Tel Aviv, waar hulle gyselaars ontmoet het wat Hamas […]
# US Vice President JD Vance is in Israel to shore up a fragile Gaza ceasefire deal, after President Donald Trump warned Hamas it would be wiped out if it breached the truce. Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were already in Tel Aviv, where they met hostages released by Hamas after […]
# Die Nasionale Navorsingstigting van Suid-Afrika het die uitkoms van sy befondsingsversoek onder die Belmont Forum vir samewerkende navorsing aangekondig. Tien transdissiplinêre navorsingsprojekte is vir befondsing gekies. Die woordvoerder, Bongani Nkosi, sê 172 voorlopige voorstelle en 59 volledige voorstelle is deur navorsers van regoor die wêreld by die stigting ingedien. Die tien projekte word gelei […]
# Frankryk se oudpresident, Nicolas Sarkozy, het vandag die eerste voormalige hoof van ‘n Europese Unie-staat geword wat tronk toe is, maar sy onskuld verklaar toe hy die tronk in Parys binnegaan. Hy was van 2007 tot 2012 Frankryk se regse leier en is verlede maand skuldig bevind aan pogings om befondsing van die Libiese […]
# Japan se nuwe eerste minister, Sanae Takaichi, het slegs twee ander vroue in haar kabinet van 19-lede ingesluit, al het sy Nordiese vlakke van verteenwoordiging beloof. Satsuki Katayama is die eerste vroue-minister van Finansies. Takaichi, ‘n bewonderaar van die voormalige Britse eerste minister, Margaret Thatcher, is vanoggend as die eerste vrou in die posisie […]
# The National Research Foundation of South Africa has announced the culmination of its funding call under the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action initiative. A total of ten transdisciplinary research projects were selected for funding. Spokesperson Bongani Nkosi says 172 pre-proposals and 59 full proposals were submitted to the NRF by researchers from across the […]
# Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi named just two other women in her 19-strong cabinet, despite previously promising Nordic levels of representation in her government. They included the country’s first female finance minister, Satsuki Katayama. Takaichi, an admirer of former British premier Margaret Thatcher, was named Japan’s first woman prime minister earlier on Tuesday. […]
# France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former head of an EU state to be jailed today, proclaiming his innocence as he entered a Paris prison. France’s right-wing leader from 2007 to 2012 was found guilty last month of seeking to acquire funding from Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya for the campaign that saw him elected. […]
