# The European Union is tightening the enforcement of sanctions against Russia, while further ramping up pressure on the country and increasing support for Ukraine. It has implemented 21 packages of restrictive measures against Moscow since 2022, targeting financial, energy, and trade sectors. European Commission vice president Kaja Kallas says EU Foreign Affairs ministers are […]
# Automaker Volkswagen has approved a sweeping cost-cutting plan that would cut 50-thousand jobs, slim the company’s model line by half and end car production at four German plants. The company says it has excess production capacity of 500-thousand vehicles in Europe, and that a competitive future production allocation cannot be secured for plants in […]
# Reddingswerkers het twee werkers lewend uit ʼn hidrokragtonnel in Nepal gehaal. Dit volg meer as ʼn week nadat hulle tydens die rampspoedige oorstroming op die Nepal-China-grens in ʼn tonnel van die Trishuli-3-hidrokragprojek vasgekeer is. Sanjaya Shah en Kabir Maharjan het beserings aan hul hande en bene opgedoen. Minstens 39 ander sal na verwagting ook uit […]
# Rescuers have pulled two workers alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal, more than a week after they became trapped by the devastating flash flood at the Nepal-China border. They were recovered from a tunnel of the Trishuli-3 Hydropower Project. Sanjaya Shah and Kabir Maharjan have injuries to their hands and legs. At least 39 others […]
# Die jurie in die hofsaak van ʼn ma van Massachusetts wat aangekla word van die moord op haar drie kinders in 2023, onderhandel vandag vir ʼn sewende dag. Die 36-jarige Lindsay Clancy ontken nie dat sy haar kinders verwurg het nie. Haar prokureur sê egter sy behoort nie strafregtelik aanspreeklik te wees nie omdat […]
# Die vakverbond Cosatu het die Foschini-groep gevra om ernstig te besin oor die uitwerking wat die sluiting van winkels op sy personeel gaan hê, en ʼn alternatiewe oplossing versoek. Die maatskappy wil teen 2029 sowat 280 winkels in Afrika sluit en op aanlyn verkope konsentreer wat tans beter presteer as gewone bedrywighede. Cosatu-woordvoerder, Nonzuzo […]
# Amerika se adjunkpresident, JD Vance, sê hulle gaan nie ʼn tydlyn stel vir die einde van die oorlog teen Iran nie. Hy sê dit hang van Teheran af wanneer die konflik, wat ses maande gelede begin het, gaan eindig. Die twee lande is weer besig met aanvalle op mekaar terwyl Iran beheer oor die […]
# The deadlocked jury in the gripping case of a Massachusetts mother charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children in 2023 is set to continue a seventh day of deliberations today. Thirty-six-year-old Lindsay Clancy does not deny strangling her children; however, her lawyer says she should not be held criminally responsible because […]
# Union federation COSATU has urged the Foschini Group to earnestly consider the impact of store closures on its staff and find an alternative solution. The company plans to close about 280 stores in Africa through 2029, as the retailer hones in on online sales, which are outpacing the performance of its physical operations. COSATU’s […]
